[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdGYcMSJfI[/embedyt] My weakness was always power. I don’t mean that in an inspirational way you might find in fairy tales orΒ The Children’s Book of Virtues.Β I mean it literally: I will do anything for power. Anything. And I did. I suppose my attraction to power stems from my miserable start...

β€œIt’s creepy,” Dan balked. β€œIt’s cute,” Julia countered. β€œBesides, it’s fun. I mean, geez Scrooge, where’s your Christmas spirit?” Dan picked up the doll and turned it over in his hands. It was the prototypical Christmas elf as imagined by Hollywood in a red onesie, Santa...

I had managed to keep a healthy scepticism of ghosts, ghouls and all things supernatural until I was 28. I found most claims of such things to be dubious at best, and harmful at worst. I was very much in the camp of the classical...