It may have been the Thrawn Trilogy that reinvigorated the Star Wars fanbase and kicked off the first of hundreds of books and stories set in the Expanded Universe, but it was the Star Wars: Dark Empire series by Dark Horse Comics that continued the Skywalker saga and helped usher in a new era of […]
Read more "Alternate Sequels: Dark Empire"The Sith were defeated, the Second Death Star destroyed, and the villainous Darth Vader was finally redeemed through his son, Luke Skywalker. With the Galactic Empire crippled, the door was opened for the return of the Republic and for Luke to create a New Jedi Order. The sixth and formerly final movie in the Star […]
Read more "Alternate Sequels: The Thrawn Trilogy"The long-running “Jack Ryan” novel series by Tom Clancy has given readers stories of political intrigue, high-tech warfare and recurring characters for decades, many of them telling the story of Jack Ryan’s ascendancy through the Central Intelligence Agency to the White House. With international incidents that serve as the main focus of each story, such […]
Read more "Tom Clancy’s Third World War"Writing with an eye for detail and an ability to blend real-world politics, nations and equipment with plausible stories, Tom Clancy’s works earned a reputation that still draws readers today. Though Clancy’s name may be more recognizable due to the “Tom Clancy’s” brand of video games by Ubisoft, the Jack Ryan series of novels is […]
Read more "Tom Clancy’s Pacific War: Japan and Korea"Whether it’s a zombie apocalypse, alien invasion or nuclear war, there’s no shortage of fiction portraying survivors trying to eke out a living in the absence of organized society or some form of authority. Many times, fiction such as The Walking Dead portrays a total lack of government or surviving officials to rebuild society, but in […]
Read more "The REX 84 Contingency Plan"Like most conflicts, the Vietnam War is chock full of myths and legends. Some legends are generated by the secretive nature of the war, such as the rumors of Soviet special forces, while others are generated through documented instances, such as the stories of American defectors fighting alongside the Communists. But one myth doesn’t sound […]
Read more "Enemy Helicopters: Strange Lights in Vietnam"Throughout World War II, the Nazis were engaged in numerous wonder weapon, or wunderwaffe, projects like the V1 missile, V2 rocket, Me 262 jet fighter, and the Landkreuzer P. 1000 super tank. Some, like the Me 262 and the V2, were early examples of technology that would eventually come to revolutionize warfare. Others, like the […]
Read more "Nazi Secrets: Die Glocke and the Fly Trap"The silent 1922 film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, or Nosferatu, a symphony of horrors, is renowned for being not just the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, but a remarkable and early film in the horror genre which influenced later vampire films to the slow-gait of Michael Myers in the Halloween series. […]
Read more "Occultism in 1922’s Nosferatu"In the town of St. Louis in Saskatchewan, Canada, there has persisted for years tales of a light traveling on train tracks which have been long closed. This light is now called the “St. Louis Light.” The Light is described as becoming visible along a railroad bed north of St. Louis where the tracks have […]
Read more "Ghost Train: The St. Louis Light"Many towns across the U.S. have their own urban legends, ranging from a haunted building to a mysterious creature, such as the Mothman legend of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The town of Loveland, Ohio, also has an urban legend of its own, regarding strange frog-like creatures known as the Loveland Frogmen. There are two main […]
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