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Kickstarter for Death’s Garden Revisited

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 / joanne m. austin / Leave a comment

I've been swamped with day job and class projects lately but I wanted to share the Kickstarter link to Death's Garden Revisited: Relationships with Cemeteries, which is an anthology edited by Loren Rhoads that I'm honored to have an essay in. It's one of 40 personal essays and knowing Loren's work and seeing who the … Continue reading Kickstarter for Death’s Garden Revisited

Following Annie

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 / joanne m. austin / Leave a comment

Yesterday I took a trip to two New Jersey towns--Blairstown and Hope--that were featured in scenes from the 1980 horror movie, Friday the 13th. Both appear early in the film, when we're following the perky and independent Annie, who signed on to be the cook at Camp Crystal Lake and is getting there on a … Continue reading Following Annie

Katie Likes Flowers

January 28, 2016January 28, 2016 / joanne m. austin / 2 Comments

This short piece about an experience I had in a nearby abandoned cemetery was originally published in Weird Hauntings (Sterling, 2006). Many abandoned bits of civilization are found in the woods in the part of New Jersey where I live: Towns that simply disappeared off the map for one reason or another. Their remnants include … Continue reading Katie Likes Flowers

Leo the MGM Lion

December 30, 2015December 30, 2015 / joanne m. austin / 2 Comments

The Asbury Park Press recently published another story I wrote for the "Last Exit" special issue of Weird NJ: This one is about the original Leo the Lion, one of a number of roaring lions that MGM featured at the start of its films. This Leo in particular lived on a farm/animal sanctuary in Gillette, … Continue reading Leo the MGM Lion

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