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Joined 03-04-08, id: 1515959, Profile Updated: 03-04-08

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Community Involvement: Story Reviewer. I'm also working on a cycle of Martin Mystery fanfics, but I'll leave the details at that until some of them are finished

Other Interests: Computers, Magic: The Gathering, cooking, history, philosophy, science, business

Favourite TV Shows: Survivorman, Man VS. Wild, Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, Creepy Canada, and Urban Legends

Favourite Movies: Ghostbusters, A Night at the Museum, The House on Haunted Hill (the original version), Thirteen Ghosts (the recent remake), The Lord of the Rings (the modern version), Batman Begins, and The Hound of the Baskervilles (the modern version with Jeremy Brett)

Favourite Fiction Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Stephen King, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, M.R. James, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Ramsey Campbell, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, and Robert W. Chambers

Favourite Fictional Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Peter Venkman, Tsukino Usagi, Aino Minako, Randolph Carter, Professor Challenger, Martin Mystery, Hali, and Richard Darrel (the protagonist of The Mystery of Choice)

Favourite Short Story: The End of the Whole Mess, by Stephen King -- a short story that combines a sympathetic outlook with cosmic horror. A young man's attempt to break the struggle between Good and Evil ends tragically when an experiment to destroy the curse of original sin has side-effects he could never have anticipated. The ending is the most touching, powerful moment in the story. I highly recommend it, this one may haunt you for days and still give you the shivers

Favourite Poem: The Rose Garden, by Arthur Machen -- this is part of a collection of mundanely fantastic prose poetry called Ornaments in Jade. I don't know how else to describe it, this, and his other story-like poems defy classification. The Rose Garden is a beautifully spiritual poem that attracts and refreshes the soul of the reader. Most of Machen's stories were on the edge of fantasy and horror, but there are a few of them that lean on the mundane for beauty's sake. The Rose Garden is such a prose poem. Considering that even a hardcore materialist like Lovecraft could be influenced from Machen's nonhorrific stories is a testament to their power. One of the influences of The Call of Cthulhu, for instance, may have been Machen's The Great Return. Compare the two narratives and you'll see what I mean.

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Martin Mystery Archives: Vampire by kradnohikari reviews
Second in the series. A vampire is terrorizing Salem. When the gang gets called out, the creature reponsible has his eye on one of them. What will happen?
Martin Mystery - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 10 - Words: 9,315 - Reviews: 27 - Favs: 31 - Follows: 25 - Updated: 10/19/2008 - Published: 9/6/2007 - Complete
Martin meets Who? by Spidey meets Wizard-Theif reviews
The Inu-gang that's who! But not in the way you think unless you're thinking, what I'm thinking. Ok to the summary. Center without agents plus Genie on loose equals uh oh! Then add in InuYasha and you get chaos! This is the redo of our original MMW? R&R
Crossover - Inuyasha & Martin Mystery - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 13 - Words: 43,286 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 11 - Updated: 6/29/2008 - Published: 1/28/2008