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Steve A. Wiggins

@stawiggins

Writer, displaced professor, blogger, university press editor, inveterate reader; all views my own. Wanna connect? Use my website.

 Greater New York City area
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Celebrating Halloween steveawiggins.com/2026/10/31… #Halloween2026
Celebrating Halloween

Celebrating Halloween

October is always 31 days, but it felt long this year.  That’s probably because the month started on a Thursday, yielding five spooky weekends.  The arrangements of days, along with the g…

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Pick Up steveawiggins.com/2026/10/30… #HorrorMovies
Pick Up

Pick Up

Although it came recommended by streaming services, I’d given The Black Phone a pass.  Seeing it mentioned a few times in a book I was reading, I decided I’d better give in.  Since it was an unexpe…

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Talking to Vampires steveawiggins.com/2026/10/29… #HorrorMovies
Talking to Vampires

Talking to Vampires

Perhaps it’s the unremitting dissatisfaction of Louis, but I had trouble getting into the novel Interview with the Vampire.  I put it down for over a year before picking it back up and finishing it…

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Harvest Time steveawiggins.com/2026/10/28… #books
Harvest Time

Harvest Time

Dark Harvest literally sat atop my literal “to read” pile for almost a year.  Norman Partridge’s book came into my possession sometime after Halloween last year but I wanted to wait until, well, ha…

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Carrieing On steveawiggins.com/2026/10/27… #horror
Carrieing On

Carrieing On

There can be little doubt that horror grew up in the seventies.  If I wanted to sound academic I’d say “the long seventies” since the dam burst in 1968.  I consider movies “major” if I heard about …

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Horrorigins steveawiggins.com/2026/10/26…
Horrorigins

Horrorigins

Among those who write about horror, and those who talk about it, a common question is what drew you into it.  The origin story of your fascination.  I read a book where the author posed t…

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Puzzle Conscious steveawiggins.com/2026/10/25…
Puzzle Conscious

Puzzle Conscious

Those of us who write books are all working on putting together a puzzle.  Even though we often disagree, it is part of the same puzzle.  We’re trying to expand human knowledge.  Som…

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Chasing Headless steveawiggins.com/2026/10/24… #BooksWorthReading
Still Headless

Still Headless

I found J. W. Ocker through Poe.  Specifically, through his book Poe-Land.  I guess I read it last year about this time.  We had a brief email correspondence when I told him about my Sleepy Hollow …

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October Puzzles steveawiggins.com/2026/10/23…
October Puzzles

October Puzzles

The holiday season should begin at Halloween.  In my mind, if I can make it to Halloween, I can make it through the rest of the year.  Besides, the holidays are the only time I allow myse…

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Falconry steveawiggins.com/2026/10/22… #darkacademia
Falconry

Falconry

Some years back I read Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and the two follow-up volumes.  My interest in them was reignited when I started seeing them being branded as …

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October Challenge steveawiggins.com/2026/10/21…
October Challenge

October Challenge

There’s a popular October challenge—watch a horror movie every night of the month.  I’m neither a young person nor retired, so this is not something I’ve ever been able to do.  It’s been …

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Picking on Poltergeist steveawiggins.com/2026/10/20… #horror
Picking on Poltergeist

Picking on Poltergeist

It’s not nice to pick on the elderly, I know, but Poltergeist is one movie where I disagree with the critics.  One of my “old movies,” I saw it sometime back in the eighties and although there were…

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Building Horror steveawiggins.com/2026/10/19… #books
Building Horror

Building Horror

Christina Henry grew a reputation rewriting fairy tales.  At least that’s how I found her.  I read The Girl in Red and then Horseman (which was after I’d begun work on Sleepy Hollow as American Myt…

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Exorcising Emily steveawiggins.com/2026/10/18… #horror
Exorcising Emily

Exorcising Emily

Perhaps after The Exorcist, the demonic possession movie cited with the greatest respect is The Exorcism of Emily Rose.  This 2005 movie is based, in part, on the true case of Anneliese Michel, a y…

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Demeter at Last steveawiggins.com/2026/10/17… #horror
Demeter at Last

Demeter at Last

Now that official scary movie season is here, and now that I’ve had a chance to watch The Last Voyage of the Demeter, well, I guess I can share my thoughts.  First of all, it immediately went into …

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Sweet Horror Music steveawiggins.com/2026/10/16…
Sweet Horror Music

Sweet Horror Music

I don’t often write about music because it’s far too personal.  And very important to me.  I’m not a casual listener, for the most part.  When I listen to music I listen to music.  Still, sometimes…

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Old Man Country steveawiggins.com/2026/10/15…
Old Man Country

Old Man Country

As a movie fan, you eventually come to trust certain filmmakers.  The Coen Brothers produce consistently good work.  I’d missed No Country for Old Men and was somewhat reluctant to see it.    Films…

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Slip Sliding steveawiggins.com/2026/10/14… #books
Slip Sliding

Slip Sliding

The world is quiet here.  The Baudelaire orphans have been reunited by the end of The Slippery Slope, but Quigley Quagmire gets separated from them at the denouement.  As a friend of mine once said…

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Bible Movies steveawiggins.com/2026/10/13…
Bible Movies

Bible Movies

I’ve noted elsewhere that no database exists, that I know of, where every movie showing or featuring the Bible is catalogued.  I used clips from films that had the Bible in one of my Rutgers’ Jan T…

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Hollow Singing steveawiggins.com/2026/10/12… #Halloween
Hollow Singing

Hollow Singing

Since it’s Sleepy Hollow season I suggested to my wife that we watch the Disney version of the movie last night, rainy weekend evening that it was.  I discuss in my book Disney’s strange pairing wi…

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