Unreal Worlds: Drugs and Death on the Rio Grande
Oct 12So I was going to write a little bit more this week about the weird history of American espionage in the 19th century, but then I got sidetracked by a Mexican death cult. Let me explain. Earlier this week, a Mexican naval special forces unit killed the leader of the Zetas drug gang — Heriberto Lazcano, a.k.a. “el Lazca,” “Zeta 3,” and “the...
Unreal Worlds — Mystery Served Cold
Feb 10It’s like something out of a bad horror movie. An isolated team of scientists working under drastically harsh conditions suddenly stop communicating with the outside world. It’s unclear if their communications equipment is malfunctioning, or if something has happened to the team itself to prevent them from calling out to the rest of the world. Even before they lost contact, their...
Unreal Worlds – Abominable Armies
Nov 11The air is cool and crisp, snow is in the air (for at least some of you dear readers), and for the Illuminerdy, the dying of the year means it’s time to talk about monsters. There are few more famous than the abominable snowman of the Himalaya — the Yeti. Also called the Meh-teh, Mi-go, Mirka, Kang Admi, and the Jobran, the Yeti has been part of the Western monstrous lexicon since at...

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