Adventure – Leif J. Erickson

Adventure, Author, Mystery

Lights, Camera, Blackjack: Casinos in the Movies vs. Real Life

Let’s start with one of Hollywood’s favorite myths: card counting as a superpower. Let’s be honest—Hollywood has taught most of us everything we think we know about casinos. Whether it’s Daniel Ocean smooth-talking his way through Ocean’s Eleven, James Bond ordering his martini “shaken, not stirred” in Casino Royale, or Alan from The Hangover counting… Read More

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Where’s My Space Vacation Movie?

I’m not talking about the gritty space dramas or dystopian thrillers where a “vacation” turns into a bug-infested death match (looking at you, Total Recall). We’ve been to the stars, we’ve battled alien empires, we’ve rebooted Star Trek more times than most of us have renewed our driver’s licenses. We’ve terraformed planets, colonized moons, and… Read More

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Adventure, Seasons

Christmas Chronicles: The Warm, The Weird, and The WTF

Ah, Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year—and the most overexploited in literature and film. From Dickens’ heartwarming A Christmas Carol to the Hallmark Channel’s industrial-scale production of small-town love stories, Christmas has inspired countless tales. Some make us cry tears of joy; others make us cry because we’ve wasted two hours of our… Read More

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Adventure, Books, Doctor Victor Tesla, Ghost Town, Ghost Town Labs, Haunting, Inspiration, Murder, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Technology, The Genesis Event, Whiterock

Ghost Town

first set out to write about Whiterock and Doctor Victor Tesla, the book was never intended to be a vast series. The first draft followed the hauntings of a family over the course of one night. Beyond Whiterock and the Tesla family, there’s not a lot of correlation between the new Ghost Town and that first book. That story had been written and was set aside for some time before I decided to revisit it. In making notes for a rewrite, a new direction took shape and the Ghost Town series was born. The original draft has now been reworked with a lot of its content appearing in my short story, ‘The Reaper of Geneseo Falls’ which should be released in a year or two.

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Adventure, Doctor Victor Tesla, Ghost Town, Ghost Town Labs, Haunting, Inspiration, Motivation, Murder, Mystery, Revenge, Sci-Fi, Whiterock

Ghost Town Series

The ‘Ghost Town’ series started out as experiments in a small farming community that saw a peaceful and serene rural town get ravaged and destroyed. The perpetrator was one Doctor Victor Tesla, a scientist who was working on a weapon only to be betrayed by his government. His wife and daughter murdered, Doctor Tesla fled to America to continue his work only to discover that another government was getting ready to betray him. Plans were in the works to kill Tesla and his team and steal his work. That’s when Tesla decided to take revenge.

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Adventure, Doctor Victor Tesla, Haunting, Murder, Mystery, Novel, Sci-Fi, Technology, The Genesis Event, Whiterock

Ghost Town IV

Ghost Town Labs has always relied on having the best information available. In Whiterock they monitored every event that happened in the little city. Now that they are moving to a major metropolis, they need to up the surveillance to see what their ghosts can really do.