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My contribution to the Alphabet Challenge

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 May 16

A – Art – short version of my name and a medium of expression I love B – Burlesque – I am a fan, and sometimes help performers create routines C – Cult – people must get fed up of me stating that I used to be in one D – Doctor...

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Eastercon Diary – Easter Monday 28th March 2016 – El Rincon And Dead Dog

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 Apr 16

This is the last of my 18 convention reports on the 2016 Mancunicon Eastercon convention. The convention was officially at an end but as in many years, fans stay around later to continue drinking and socializing. Those with long...

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Eastercon Diary - Saturday 26th March 2016 – Wendigo Water

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 Mar 16

My turn to present a feature now instead of attending those organized by others. I played the audio track MP3 from the podcast of my radio drama, Wendigo Water. I was up against very popular events at peak time in the convention...

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Excited About my Horror Play Presentation At Easter

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Mar 16

This time last year, 2015, I staged my first radio play, as writer, producer, director and actor. There were seven of us in the cast of Wendigo Water, about a suspected flesh eating demon in a lifeboat among shipwreck survivors...

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Horror Novella Review – Algernon Blackwood – The Wendigo

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 22 Nov 15

1910 – Spoiler alerts My favourite literary monster is The Wendigo, which features in much of my own horror writing. I can no more claim to have invented it than Anne Rice could claim she invented the vampire. Wendigos have...

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Movie review Ravenous

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Nov 15

Spoiler alerts - 1999 A supernatural horror Western with too much emphasis on dark comedy and ludicrous exposition. Guy Pearce plays Captain Boyd, a survivor of the American-Mexican war in the 1840’s. He survived a massacre of...

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Comic Review – Steve Englehart – The Hulk – Spawn Of The Flesh-Eater

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Oct 15

1973. Marvel Comics – Spoiler alerts I was delighted to find a copy of this one, as my memory of it influenced my own writings a great deal after first reading it at the age of eleven. It is the comic that introduced me to The...

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The Windigo

mari61960 @mari61960 (4893) • United States 4 Apr 07

The Windigo is a terrible spirit of cannibalism that haunts the Algonkian-speaking Indians of Canada that can take both physical and mental forms. It is a half-phantom, half-beast that lives in the forests and preys on human...

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The Wendigo

Astarte @Astarte (812) • Italy 21 Feb 07

What do you know about the Windigo's story? Do you believe that he exists? Are you afraid from him?

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