About Ligeia Dreams

• "... a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars"
  
   
  
  
  
  These stories started as a lark.
  A writing challenge from prompts offered by a MySpace writing group called Blogophilia to see if I could devise "weird fiction" a la H.P. Lovecraft, father of the Cthulhu and other phantasmagorical bits of tasty oddities . That son of Rhode Island and I share a common birthdate as well as a taste for the preternatural.
  
  
  
  
  From my very first childhood memories, sprung thoughts of the macabre and the supernatural.
  I fought demons in my dreams & saw witches cackling in my crib instead of sugarplums dancing in my head.
  
  The occult was the backdrop of formative years spent with a family for whom Catholicism, Santeria & atheism all co-mingled comfortably.
  
  I have seen & felt many things, I just never considered them to be unusual...
  
  I learned subsequently that I was wrong.
  
  
  This blog will be an extension of the so-called darker side of my nature, but there is gilding beneath the shadows, the light would be a banal thing & lost without its inky cousin...
  
  Together, both will bring us one step beyond...