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Posts tagged "Alphabet City"

The Tarot and Paul’s Prophecy

Posted by Richard Long - September 23, 2012 - GoodReads, Horror, Irish, Supernatural, Uncategorized
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Laura gave me my first tarot deck. It was a Crowley. A lot of people get creeped out by Crowley decks, much as they would have been creeped out by Crowley, I imagine. He called himself ‘The Great Beast.’ To me, he seemed more like a big joke.

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law!”

Stop it, you’re killing me.

You just read the opening lines of The Bone King, a prequel to The Book of Paul. They happen to be true. Laura gave me my first deck. I still have it and use it. In fact, I’ll be using it shortly to provide Skype tarot readings for two lucky winners of my Whirlwind Blog Tour. I’m looking forward to the readings. The winners? I suppose that depends on which cards come up.

Actually, I don’t give scary tarot readings, I just write about scary tarot readings. People have enough fear and stress in their lives without me throwing more gas on the flames. Besides, the scariest trump cards –The Hanged Man, Death, The Devil and The Tower – can all be interpreted in very unscary ways. Most of the time.
The scary cards (even scarier in the Crowley deck): Death, The Devil, The Tower

Read More Alphabet City, apocalypse, apocalyptic, contest, creation mythology, Crowley, Crowley tarot, Death, East Village, giveaway, grail quest, Kindle fire, prizes, prophecy, Skype, tarot, tarot reading, The Devil, The Hanged Man, The Tower, Whirlwind tour

House of Horrors

Posted by Richard Long - August 8, 2012 - Paranormal, Richard Long, Supernatural, The Book of Paul, Thriller
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When I first moved to Manhattan on April Fool’s Day 1980, the East Village was a cooler and creepier place than it is today. It’s still cool and creepy here and there. Some of the blocks don’t look that much different than they did back then. But from Avenue A eastward to Avenue D, well, that was a whole different world for us white folk, mostly artists, musicians, junkies and club kids, looking for cheap rent, cheap dope, cheap drinks and fun bars to mix all of the above with loud music.

I first lived on St. Mark’s between 2nd and 1st in a railroad apartment with the bathtub in the kitchen. I was a junkie then, a “speedballer” actually, which meant I shot dope and coke together, which was good for staying up all night while still maintaining my narcotic composure. I shared the apartment with three other junkies. We’d sleep all day, then cop some dope and coke in the abandoned buildings of Alphabet City, stay up and go to clubs all night, then out for breakfast at Kiev after watching an hour of Mary Tyler Moore reruns. Such was life.

I moved into a boarded-up storefront on 3rd street between A and B shortly thereafter. A two-bedroom apartment for $375 a month. All the streets south of 6th between A and B were pretty scary then. Between B and C they were really scary. Between C and D? Well, you didn’t want to go there at night. At all.

Read More Alphabet City, Avenue A, Avenue B, Avenue C, Avenue D, East Village, junkies, junky, piercing, speedball, St. Mark's Place, tattoo

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