My Green Man Review of House of Windows by John Langan

can be found here
http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_langan_houseofwindows.html
and if you are a fan of the ghost stories of Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, and James, I encourage you to pick up this book, which I think is bound to win a number of the horror literature awards over the next year.

Amongst other new offerings
http://greenmanreview.com/whats_new.html
is a review of
Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_mccrumb_ghostriders.html
which involves one of my favorite supernatural presences, the Wild Hunt.

What psychologists still fail to know about themselves

If any one of the mottos of the ancient or classical world has consistently appealed to me, it is the motto "Know thyself," so this article via MindHacks
One Nagging Thing
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-nagging-thing-you-still-dont_05.html
in which numerous psychologists address the question of the one thing which they still fail to understand about themselves, is particularly fascinating. There is a lot of grist for writers of psychological horror here as a brief list of some of the topics include irratinality, nightmares, and dark places, not to mention the traditional Frankensteinian methodilogical flaws in which the psychologist fails to acknowledge the influence of his own biases and subjective experiences.

Accessibility: Learn to do tarot readings

While I managed to bump into someone at Arisia years ago who mentioned having a braille tarot deck for sale, these seem to have become completely unavailable. The best approach would be to get a blank tarot deck and braille your own or to use an online version like
The Silicon Valley Tarot, Internet Version
http://www.svtarot.com/net/
Note that the page offers a list of every card in the deck--to skip to the button to get your reading, search for
See Your Fortune - Silicon Valley Style!

Learn Something - Tuesday, October 20, 6PM PST

Just in time for Halloween, come listen to Alice Hackney, tarot reader, as she takes you step by step through how to read tarot and answers your questions.
See you there!
Nan Hawthorne, Group Facilitator
Email: hawthorne@nanhawthorne.com
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m. PDT, 7:00 p.m. MDT, 8:00 p.m. CDT, 9:00 p.m. EDT
and elsewhere in the world Wednesday 1:00 GMT.
( details about joining the online event )

True romance

is your favorite fanboy preordering the new DVD
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
http://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Fear-John-Carpenter/dp/B002IZEWVI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254779186&sr=1-1
which features horror folks like John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, and Neil Gaiman, and even springing for the two-day shipping so that it shows up in time for your Lovecraft tea party.

Talk about putting the romance back in necromancy...I love you, FF.