Casey's Horror Blogs

The first story in my book, “The Horror Wedding Series”, revolves around the resurrection of an obsessive witch, Mfeti. Through the years, my feelings about witches have become a mixed bag of horror and sympathy. To me, they are a scary yet enigmatic bunch of human beings. There is truth to the say…

“Child Bride” from the Horror Wedding Series is inspired by the superstitions surrounding corpse brides that originated in ancient China and the practice that continues to this day. In rural China, especially, ancient folklore feels closer to history than to myth and the horr…

In many cultures, the ghosts of the drowned are thought to linger far longer than others. After all, their bodies remain part of the lake, bound to it forever. The fact that many of those drowned in lakes and ponds were suicides—or those accused of being witches—makes it all the more plausible that their vengeful ghosts would ling…

The Chinese Netherworld’s (or hell) myth runs deeply through China’s history and culture. Emerged from a soup of Buddhist and Taoist folk religion, this concept of reincarnation originates in the yin/yang duality: If there is a physical (Yang) life, there must be an incorporeal afterlife to hold it in balance, an Underworld (Yin). S…

Ancient Chinese medicine (even till today) have always believed that consuming similar organs could replenish your own organ's healing power. Brains, hearts, livers - essentially everything from head to toe - are thought to contain regenerative power that could help heal the body if consumed. In practice, this belief is generall…

Every Halloween, the haunted house in the haunted wood emerges from the shadows of horror novels and films to fill us with gleeful terror. What is it about the deep, dark woods that sparks elemental terror in our hearts? Why are we so quick to imagine ghosts flitting between the trees at night? In mo…

1)                          In the world of black magic, it was said that one could attain immortality after you have taken nine lives. To many of us, this may sound ludicrous. Yet, there are people who believed in it, some even went a step too far to prove it. The first story in my Horror Wedding Series, The Pond,  began with an ob…

Resurrection - an unlikely or even seemingly impossible event, in particular, catch and hold our collective imagination. Those events, however, seemed only to exist in horror movies. Despite we have heard about peculiar cases of people being able to recall about their past lives, most of us would rather take it with a pinch of salt.…