Author: DOUGLAS PAUL HARGROVE

Just before Christmas, Douglas Barnett returns to the place where he grew up, to remember the pal he lost when they were just little boys. “Guilt. Dread. Remorse. They are the daemons of bad conscience by which the dead reach out to possess the living.” Come and listen to his tale and decide for yourself…

What if you were a thirty-something and you decided to go looking for the father that you never knew, only to learn that he’d committed suicide on the day that you were born? But! the people who knew him best say he didn’t stick around for the funeral, and as a matter of fact, they…

Most people will wake up expecting their day to be much like yesterday because yesterday was much like the day before. A mindless complacency has set in. After all, the brain’s job is to keep things consistent and boring. No surprises wanted, says the brain. But what happens to the average person when they are…

In Spielberg’s movie version of H.G. Well’s novel, War of The Worlds, a bizarre lightning storm sends unsuspecting Jerseyites into the streets to investigate. That deep-down desire “to know” sends them reeling toward a danger that none of them could have suspected only moments before. We call it “curiosity”. That overwhelming need to know is…