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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-November 2024: The Tale of The Rangoon Revenge

Good evening ghouls and ghosties; the moon is once again full and it is time for the Tale of the Rangoon Revenge. I do appreciate your patience with Lord Hauntington, and all the well-wishes. Be assured, I am feeling much better. Many thanks to Dr. Bombay for his excellent care. Now – allow me to tell you of the Rangoon Revenge. As I believe I stated at one point, the Haunted Dolls (led by…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-October 2024: The Rangoon Fallout

~rustle~rustle~tap, tap~*feedback squeal* Um, hello? Is this thing on? Is anyone even out there? ~throat clearing noises~ Hi. Welcome to the Full Moon at Midnight podcast. I’m obviously not Lady Hauntington. She isn’t feeling well and asked if I would do the podcast tonight since the moon is full. I’ve never done a podcast before, but sure. How hard can it be, right? Um…wait…she gave me…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-September 2024: GenX - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

**Inspired by the GenX influencers/bloggers** We’ve all seen them right? The Gen X influencers/vloggers talking about how we are the last feral generation, that we grew up unwanted and unsupervised, that we were adults at 10, and so on and on and on. And we’ve laughed, because some of it does ring true. (Yeah, we all drank out of the garden hose; if you went inside for water, you’d get caught…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-August 2024: The Last Time?

I’m a Southern girl. That is, in fact, the entire premise of this blog: I’m a Southern girl transplanted to the Great White North – the snowy plains of Michigan (which is an egregious lie as there hasn’t been an actual snow storm since we moved here). I grew up in Southwest Virginia, in Bristol (yes, the Bristol of NASCAR fame, and no, I’ve never been to a NASCAR race), then attended college in…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-July 2024: The Cold Ones

I dream a lot about monsters, all kinds of monsters – vampires, werewolves, zombies, mermaids, kraken…all the monsters. Often these dreams plant the seeds for stories (I wrote a quite horrifying short story some years ago about a vampire that kept her lover’s head in a lake and fed it people; or another dream about semi-blind vampires that looked like man/bat hybrids and infested a city where all…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-June 2024: The People That Walk Through

Does everyone see the people that walk through our world? People that you catch in your peripheral vision, walking past, then gone? They’re not looking at you, are focused on where they’re going – but it happens when you’re alone? They’ll walk past you in a room where you’re sitting alone, or outside when you’re walking your dog but no one is around. They walk past and disappear – just no longer…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-May 2024: AI Generated Images And A Bit Of A Moral Dilemma

I have a confession. I…I found a website that creates AI images from your prompts, then you can evolve and expand them. And they’re actually pretty good images (except for hands; hands are always a problem). I’ve been playing with it and having a lot of fun. Note – I am not saying it’s AI “art”, because it isn’t. It’s AI-generated images from prompts I think up, then tweak until I approximate…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-April 2024: What Is It About The Woods?

A thought occurred to me one day while I was walking His Dogness in the woods bordering our home (something I no longer do since the time we both came home absolutely crawling with ticks – we pulled 17 off Sir Doggus that day and at least 4 off me). But pre-tick infestation, we used to walk in the woods quite often and I wondered one day, why do woods feature so prominently in fairy tales? Woods…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-March 2024: The Case of the Missing Rangoon

New Lady Hauntington short-short this month!

Good evening ghoulies and ghosties, and welcome to the Full Moon at Midnight podcast, with your hostess, Lady Hauntington! I must confess, dear listeners, that this evening’s episode is all about the horror of something that recently happened to your Lady Hauntington. She needs to vent her frustrations, so bear with us. Lord Hauntington recently had a fancy to order out, as the Kitchen Ghoul…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-February 2024: Seven Years of Southern Goth 

Yowza. That’s really all I have to say. Is this really the seventh anniversary post? Looking back, I think that I have to be proud of myself that I’ve been pretty consistent. There are very few months where I missed a post, or even where I’ve posted late. I think keeping this blog was probably decent training for me, in that I’ve also been able to (mostly) keep up with my commitment to post…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-January 2024: Really, 2024?

So I ended the December Southern Goth post with a wish that 2024 would be good to all of us. 2024 didn’t listen. As of the day I sit down to write this (on January 15th), we’ve had the water heater fail, a snow/wind storm that knocked the power out for 23 hours when the outside temperature was hitting close to negative numbers, two internet failures (I work at home so I need the internet to be…

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Happy Holidays from Lord & Lady Hauntington

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-December 2023: Winding Down 2023

The year is winding to a close, and I can’t say I’m sorry to see it end. I have difficulties at this time of year, as I’m prone to melancholy at the best of times and the holiday season is not one of my best times. I am prone to the holiday blues, even when things are going well for me. Honestly, this year things aren’t terrible. They’re not terrific either, but things have been worse. So, I…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-November 2023: Wolfenoot, Lady Hauntington Style

Greetings ghouls and ghosts, and welcome to a new edition of the Weekly Haunt! While I know that The Best of All Seasons is now behind us, still there are things to look forward to, like the Feast Day and Yule. However, this year, there is something a bit different on the calendar here at Hauntington Manor. It seems that the Hellhound has gotten wind of a new holiday called “Wolfenoot”, a…

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Southern Goth in a Northern Town-October 2023: October Halloween Art Series

Every year, I try to do a digital art series during October, Halloween themed, of course. I usually pick a topic and go. I’ve done zombies, sugar skulls, undead girls, creepy mermaids…all sorts of things. And I usually love doing it.  Or…I did. I’ve had some setbacks in the last few years (I mean, aside from the pandemic and its fallout, which has set everyone back). I just couldn’t seem to get…

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