Dog Days of Summer
The first part of the Michigan Dogman Campfire Horror Summer Series
I took a much-needed break after the ALA conference to go back and visit my home state of Michigan. I’m currently preparing to head down to San Diego Comic Con this week. I’ll be at booth G-03 so please come say hi and pick up some comics and our SDCC exclusive trading card. Before packing and hitting the road, I must finally drop this horror short inspired by the Michigan Dogman.
panel art from Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters
One fascinating thing about being a grimoire is that I can pull stories right out of the minds of the humans and monsters I meet. This story about the Michigan Dogman is exactly one such story. I siphoned these words from the mind of an angsty eleven-year-old. This young girl was stuck in the twilight of her childhood and stuck in the middle of her cousins—three little babies under her, and five super sophisticated teens above her. She didn’t belong in either group, so she found herself alone quite a bit on family vacations up at the lake in Northern Michigan.…