The Penumbra

Tag: Mystery

October 31, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 18

Happy Halloween! Have a Spooktacular day! This is it (for now)! 18 – The Ritual: Summer has come on fast and Charles is having nightmares but also acquiring various artifacts and strange pieces of equipment to enact a plan dreamed up long ago. The others in the house work and watch and wait, while newcomers…
October 30, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 17

Back to science fiction with this one, and it’s all about fungus. Fungus and its relationship to humanity, space travel, and other things. Apparently this was part of the new Star Treks, but I didn’t watch those! 17 – Two Kingdoms: The story is told through ship logs that jump throughout 3300 years of space…
October 30, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 16

We’re so close! 3 days! And I’ll be ordering a run of author copies of Book 2 soon! Today’s tale is an epistolary, a fancy word meaning one told through letters, journals, other types of text. It is also much more horror/suspense than before, although with a penumbra twist. 16 – Black Sky Come: It…
October 29, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 15

My love letter to the video stores of the ’80s and ’90s, one of my favourite places to be. Also some D&D and heavy metal (yes, like another spooky show, but in a very different direction). 15 – A/V Magic: It is 1987 in a small eastern Canadian town. Stores that rent video tapes and…
October 26, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 12

Wherein we look at the continuing story weaving between and sometimes through the rest. 12 – Arrivals (The Penumbra Part 3): The end of Part 2 saw three strangers suddenly appearing at places around the manor. Here we find out who they are and why they are here. Sent to the house or drawn there…
October 21, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 6

I cannot wait for next weekend, though there are plenty of spooky things happening this weekend as well. Today, the first full continuation of The Penumbra, the mainline story. Sort of like the occasional X-File running storyline episode, but more coherent. 6 – Manor of Gloaming (The Penumbra Part 2): Charles Gloaming has been miraculously…
October 19, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 5

The story today is a departure from the spookier, darker mystery/supernatural horror of the others. 5 – Dace: A young man previously dying of cancer in a near future city has found a loose collective of artists deep in the web. These people sample all the senses throughout their massive city and create remixes of…
October 17, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 4

2 Weeks to the Spooky Eve! Just over 2 to Dia de Los Muertos, which is more celebratory than spooky! Speaking of celebrations: 4 – Umbrafest: There’s a horror film festival happening in a western Canadian city that features a wide variety of shlock and earnest movies. Arti, a young film student, volunteers for it,…
October 15, 2026

Penumbra Days 2026 – Day 2

Most of these posts will focus on the stories in The Penumbra so far, but day 2 is a one-two combination! * 1 – The Penumbra: Alexei and Ginger are two older strangers who find themselves trapped as a soldier in World War 1 and as a 1930s style private detective, respectively. However, they remember…
October 14, 2026

18 Days Of Penumbra

Hello. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? We keep quiet here unless there is something to say. And oh my, now there are certainly some things creeping in from the lands out there. So to celebrate the approach to the Best Holiday Of The Year, we’re going to do a post a day for the…