Jan 17, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
LAST CALL and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS Tim Powers and John Bellairs Published on John Bellairs Birthday – January 17, 1938! In my spies+sorcery novel Wilderness of Mirrors, I’m trying to write a grounded fantasy that builds on known facts about the Cold...
Dec 19, 2017 | Past Notes
by Nicholas Hallum In 1938, the British Crown anticipated war with the emerging fascist leader Adolf Hitler. The British Secret Service was desperate for code-breakers, and for a method to encode messages to Allied agents on the ground, deep in the heart of the...
Dec 14, 2017 | Horror, Past Notes
A Story by Nicholas Hallum OPERATION SLEIGH RIDE National Security Administration [NSA] EYES ONLY – CLASSIFICATION LEVEL 10 DO NOT READ THIS FILE IN THE CLEAR CLASSIFIED RECORD 12.20.00 13:14 HOURS The Christmas tree was up. Every year, we hand cut a Noble Fir in the...