J M DeSantis

We're all afraid of ghosts; there's no shame in that. They show up out of nowhere and scare us half to death. They moan and groan and take away our breath. They float around our houses and won't go away. They look positively frightful with all their decay But have you ever wondered what it's like for them? After all, ghosts were once living people, like you and I. If they were alive still, what do you think they'd do? Would you still find them so frightening? Maybe not. Maybe they wouldn't be so scary to you. Ghosts Were Are People Too takes your child on an imaginative journey of acceptance and understanding from the perspective of asking questions about what ghosts would be like if they could still do all the things that people do...and perhaps help your child be a little less scared of ghosts in the process.

We're all afraid of ghosts; there's no shame in that. They show up out of nowhere and scare us half to death. They moan and groan and take away our breath. They float around our houses and won't go away. They look positively frightful with all their decay But have you ever wondered what it's like for them? After all, ghosts were once living people, like you and I. If they were alive still, what do you think they'd do? Would you still find them so frightening? Maybe not. Maybe they wouldn't be so scary to you. Ghosts Were Are People Too takes your child on an imaginative journey of acceptance and understanding from the perspective of asking questions about what ghosts would be like if they could still do all the things that people do...and perhaps help your child be a little less scared of ghosts in the process.

"It is with a considerable amount of apprehension that I so much as recall the story of Robert Phillips, even so many years after his disappearance..." From the papers of former Harvard Professor John A. LewisRobert Phillips was a promising student of Linguistics at the Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts. He was the pride of the institution--especially after its reputation was tarnished by incidents connected with Miskatonic Library's restricted collection.It was in that very library that Robert first came upon the name Abdul Alhazred and The Mad Arab's dreaded work of eldritch knowledge, Al-Azif: The Necronomicon. Soon after, Robert became convinced that translations of the book were imperfect, yet the idea was frowned upon by the university's staff. But Robert would not be deterred, and so his close friend John could do nothing more than watch helplessly as the brilliant Robert Phillips deteriorated in his obsessive descent on a dark path into madness.

J. M. DeSantis is a writer and artist (Write-ist(TM)) whose publications are as diverse as the man's work and inspirations. From his humble, indie beginnings, to the creation of his Indian heroine, Chadhiyana(TM), to the coining of the term Write-ist(TM) and his more focused creative direction, J. M. DeSantis: The First Ten Years takes the reader on a journey through the creative mind and the growth of creative work, style, and direction. This volume covers the breadth of the Write-ist's(TM) work from 2007 to the early parts of 2019. Collected within are artworks, short stories, poems, comics, scripts, and sketches, with notes, commentary, and autobiographical information from J. M. DeSantis throughout.