Wondering if You're a Werewolf?

The following occurrences generally reflect the problem of lycanthropy...

1. The number of your neighbors mysteriously eaten skyrockets on nights of a full moon.

2. After seeing your palm, most gypsies refuse to look you in the eye.

3. Your lover isn't the least bit kinky but gets out chains for you to wear when the moon is full.

4. Unexplainable flea problems.

5. There's a large amount of fur found shed in your bed on nights after the full moon.

6.  Every time you hear the phrase, "Listen to them - the children of the night.  What beautiful noise they make!", you get a really, REALLY, strong urge to howl.

Clues You Could Be A Ghost

I like writing horror tales, especially playing around with iconic creatures.  Of late ghosts have been the object of my musings, perhaps partly influenced by the Havre de Haunts ghost tours I led last Autumn.  It is said sometimes ghosts aren't even aware of their condition.  Now I've been feeling odd of late, but not that strange.  Still, there are numerous clues of a ghostly existence such as these...

1. Every evening around dusk a different team of ghost hunters arrive at your house.

2. You have no problems passing through doorways…even when you forget to open the door.

3. Abe Lincoln was president when you were born.

4. Every family reunion picnic is held Halloween night.

5. There’s a tombstone in the graveyard with your name on it.

6. No matter what you eat, you never gain weight on your hips and remain able to float in the air.

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions you may be a ghost. If you’ve answered yes to all of them, you probably are.

Be sure to check out my books at www.lulu.com/spotlight/wrigler for more supernatural ponderings.

PINK ELEPHANTS

The circus music has started to play
and here comes a sight that’s strange for the day.
Pink elephants march all straight in a line
and lift up their trunks to reach for your wine.
Just give them their sips before you must go
to brew some coffee to end this strange show.


2014 William P. Rigler

William P. Rigler's books are available at www.lulu.com/spotlight/wrigler

April No Fool's Deal

    
The 1st of April has finally arrived and here in Maryland after a brutal winter there's a tantalizing taste of spring from a sunny sky.

Here's my attempt to tantalize you with an April deal.  Use the code FOOLSGOLD to get 10% off your order of either of my books or both from www.lulu.com/spotlight/wrigler

I've always been a big fan of sci-fi.  I logged countless hours in front of ye olde tv - the kind that was the living room floor's centerpiece with a big back behind the screen and an incapabbilty to switch channels unless the viewer actually rose to turn a knob on it - watching classic sci-fi shows.  My favs were from the 60's in which more imagination was put into the programs then dollars for special efects.  Sci-fi films were great too.  And books? 

I loved the wild romantisism found on the colorful covers of early sci-fi books.  Bug eyed aliens were cool - intergalactic views of or from space ships were fantastic.  I was introduced to Ray Bradbury in middle school when the reading assignment was The Martian Chronicles.  I found the ideas nifty, but it wasn't until I re-read the book on my own in my high school years that I was truly hooked by Bradbury's marvelous Martian landscape of adventure and introspection.  Other sci-fi novels quickly figured amongst my favorites as well, like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

My imagination has always been rather wide-ranging and it wasn't long until I was coming up with my own ideas for sci-fi adventures.  Horror and fantasy tales also spewed from my mind.  Finally a couple years ago I decided to go ahead and bring those ideas to the printed page in a book called Summoned Secrets.  In Summoned Secrets you'll learn the secrets of...

An alien world where hunters test their skills and dragons dwell.
A library whose biographies hold the key to life and death.
History's most infamous serial killer's gambling... More > habits. And more...
18 strange stories of science fiction, dark fantasy, suspense & horror.
12 poetic creations.
1 book.
"With a cast that includes dimension-hopping murderers,extraterrestrial monsters and even the shade of Poe himself, Rigler's dark imagination will help populate your nightmares for days to come." Nathan Rosen, editor at microhorror.com

And my second book, Masters of the Alpha Crystals, is a novel of intergalactic intrigue and 
adventure in which Earth finds itself under attack by alien invaders. They do not ask for surrender or terms, merely seek destruction. All seems hopeless and then another mysterious alien craft appears in Earth's... More > sky...

While lulu.com offers 10% savings of either or both books by using FOOLSGOLD code when ordering April 1st 2014 or April 2, 2014, I hope you will take adventure of the deal and check out my sci-fi ideas.  But even if you miss the sale, the books will still be there at my spotlight.  No fooling.

Saint Patrick's Pet Peeves.

It takes a saint to keep a calm head with the way things are in the world today.  But as March 17 approaches, I wonder what might even get on the nerves of a certain saint...

1. Late night prank calls from drunks claiming to have seen a snake in Ireland.
2. Publicists insist on green garb for photo ops despite a preference for slimming black.
3. Leprechauns.
4. Constant debate with Saint Nicholas over whose holiday has the cooler customs.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!