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Smoldering Shadows: A North Country Horror Tale of Cryptids, Wildfire, and Unspeakable Beasts

Rhythmic bone-rattling heralds insect-wolf beasts; survival hinges on a bear’s trail. A new horror stalks them through the smoky abyss.

April 14, 2025

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

burning wilderness, Chateaugay Lake, cryptid inferno, fantasy, fiction, grizzly goliath horror, horror, mandible nightmare, Merrill, short-story, timber terror, writing

Smoldering Shadows: A North Country Horror Tale of Cryptids, Wildfire, and Unspeakable Beasts

Whiskey, Mirrors, and Madness: The True Story of the Phantom Canoe of Chateaugay Lake

Legend of Chateaugay’s Phantom Canoe: From drunken prank to terrifying reality, a ghostly vessel stalks the lake. Unexplained terror grips 1892’s summer guests.

April 11, 2025

Yog-Sothoth

Adirondacks, Americana, Chateaugay Lake, Experimental Storytelling, Folklore, Tall Tales

Abenaki legends untold, Chateaugay Lake mysteries, cryptid chornicles, fantasy, fiction, historical horror happenings, horror, lost spirits of the lake, phantom canoe tales, short-story, whiskey and specters, writing

Whiskey, Mirrors, and Madness: The True Story of the Phantom Canoe of Chateaugay Lake

Hazy Day Off

Step into an absurd Adirondack twilight zone where nostalgic echoes, ghostly relics, and mind-melting pop verses conspire to derail your conventional thoughts entirely.

March 23, 2025

Johqu Bogart

Adirondacks, Chateaugay Lake

A Day Off, Abenaki, Ancient Civilizations, arrowheads, fantasy, fiction, Indian Point Hotel, Kelloff, pottery, science fiction, short-stories, short-story, Trains