Tom Baker

Joined June 2018

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Author of Haunted Indianapolis, Indiana Ghost Folklore, Midwest Maniacs, Midwest UFOs and Beyond, Scary Urban Legends, 50 Famous Fables and Folk Tales, and Notorious Crimes of the Upper Midwest.: http://tombakerbooks.weebly.com

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Ha'Tikvah (The Hope)
As long as in the heart within, the Jewish soul yearns, and toward the eastern edges, onward, an eye gazes toward Zion. I should preface this by saying I'm not Jewish.
By Tom Bakera day ago in Journal
Peter, Susie, and the Tea That Ran up the Wall
Peter and Susie were walking along the weird, overgrown path, wondering at the purple plants and all the other strange things arrayed about them.
By Tom Baker6 days ago in Fiction
One Week
That little bastard Buster is at it again, getting hitched up to a sweet young girl, riding like a loon between two cars, his legs spread out beneath him, just enough room for that motorcyclist to come careening along, and, hopefully, ride between his legs (stop laughing, damn you!). But Buster gets creamed anyway.
By Tom Baker6 days ago in Journal
10 Bhagavad Gita Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live a Meaningful Life
Philosophy is an integral part of human life. It provides a framework for understanding the world around us and helps us make sense of our place in it. One of the most profound philosophical texts in human history is the Bhagavad Gita. This ancient Hindu scripture offers insights into the nature of reality, the human condition, and the spiritual path. The Bhagavad Gita has inspired countless seekers, scholars, and spiritual aspirants for centuries, and continues to be a source of guidance, wisdom, and inspiration for people from all walks of life.
By Tom Baker11 days ago in Motivation
That is Not Dead...
"Nyarlathotep...the Crawling Chaos...I am the last....I will tell the audient void." --H.P.Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep. His dour image remains to us as much of an enigma as the searing, maddening, alien intelligence that burned behind it. H.P. Lovecraft, the Great Panjandrum of Occult Horrors from beyond the stars, the strange seer of visions who fathered a brand of intercelestial, gothic surrealist nightmare that has come down to us today as an entire subgenre all its own--the "Cthulu Mythos," so called because of the many-tentacled horror rising from the brackish waters of an unforgiving, eternal ocean; who sleeps and dreams, buried in his underwater home of R'lyeh, vast sarcophagi of non-Euclidean angles and stinking, miasmic funk of forty thousand dead, and rotting creatures. Lovecraft, the writer, conceived of Great Cthulhu emerging once more, to plague the world again, to reclaim, for the Ancient Ones, the "Great Old Ones," tiny, insignificant MAN; whom one day, Idiot Chaos would "blow Earth's dust away."
By Tom Baker14 days ago in Horror
Dream Voyages
"If you see the dead in your dreams, it portends good fortune. If they speak to you, prepare to die." The above is not an exact quote from The Witches' Book of Fortune Telling and Dream Interpretation. It's close enough. You get the point. The dead visit me in my dreams. Sometimes, I can hear their sing-song voices taunting me. Sometimes, I wake a dead relative lying cold and stiff in their shroud, tucked away in eternal repose. But they are there. And, like in Dr. Caligari (1920), they are watching.
By Tom Baker15 days ago in Horror
Jack Kerouac Saved My Lives
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time. The ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles.” --Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
By Tom Baker16 days ago in Journal
Into the Labyrinth (1980-82)
Back when I was a wee tot, around the Good Year 1982 or 83, Nickelodeon, which was and is a children's television network on cable that, at the time, required an ungainly yellow box with a sliding clicker on it, featured a more "adult-themed" fantasy and horror-themed show that was a collection of BBC programs that ran for short periods of time Over There. The show was called "The Third Eye," and the opener was super creepy actually, and was probably a part of some Illuminati mind control programming to get kids to sell their souls, dress in black, snort butane, and WORSHIP THE INFERNAL ONE.
By Tom Baker23 days ago in Futurism
Ghost Voices
To read my first article about EVPs, please follow this link: Hello. My name is Tom Baker, and I'm the author of a number of books on very creepy subjects, including ghosts, UFOs, psychic powers and Spiritualism, serial killers, true crime, grave robbers and necrophiles, horror flicks, and a couple of children's books as well. When I'm not doing that, I paint macabre art, do macabre music, and read Tarot cards for paying customers seven nights a week, or thereabouts. I've been like this for years.
By Tom Baker24 days ago in Horror
On the Birthday of Johnny Cash
"God has his hand on you."--Carrie Cloveree Cash The image of Johnny Cash is as indelible as that of Elvis Presley or James Dean, Marilyn, or Judy Garland--an American Icon, an original from a country that once was known for birthing the cultural milestones that would rock the rest of the world. I'm no expert on the man's life; I know that his father laughed sardonically when someone quipped "John's going places," laughed, and replied. 'Yeah, he's going right back into those cotton fields."
By Tom Bakerabout a month ago in Beat
Re-Animator (1985)
Re-Animator is an old love: a grisly horror adaptation of one of H.P. Lovecraft's more obscure tales (printed in the crumbling pages of a forgotten magazine called Home Brew sometime about the Good Year 1920), first serialized and then lost for a short period. It's his take on the Frankenstein theme of "reanimating" the dead. The unnamed narrator and the titular "Re-Animator" (Mr. Herbert West) embark on a series of ghoulish experiments that lead to West, in Lovecraft's original story, being pulled below the earth by hordes of the infernal, unclean "tomb legions." Make of that whatever thou wilt.
By Tom Bakerabout a month ago in Horror
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
A Boy and His Dog is a movie they use to play on veritable rotation on cable TV when I was a kid. Being that here, in the far-flung, futuristic year of 2023, I'm all awash and aflutter and aglow and melancholy, all at once, when I think about the late, great 1980s, I decided I must review this cinematic milestone in the evolution of desert-nomad post-apocalyptic fantasies about young, hot-headed dudes who can communicate telepathically with their animal companions. And, since it WAS penned by the late, great Harlan Ellison, who in the hell, I ask you, could resist?
By Tom Bakerabout a month ago in Futurism

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Ha'Tikvah (The Hope)

Peter, Susie, and the Tea That Ran up the Wall

One Week

10 Bhagavad Gita Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live a Meaningful Life

That is Not Dead...

Dream Voyages

Jack Kerouac Saved My Lives

Into the Labyrinth (1980-82)

Ghost Voices

On the Birthday of Johnny Cash

Re-Animator (1985)

A Boy and His Dog (1975)

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