On a young October night, the evening bore a perfect chill as the sun slid into an envelope of darkness. Gathered in the grove were listeners of every age and capacity, each with ears that hungered for tales of blood and reverie. The audience sprawled across the dark lawn of Palmyra's 19th century plantation home and waited, with nerves thrumming, to feed upon the eerie prose and cunning poetry of the Virginia Colony's dark genius; the master of macabre...

From March of 1965 until March of 1969, university professor Larry Fredrick flew to Houston, Texas on the third Friday of every month, save for a holiday. His was a mission that would put America first in space exploration and set the stage for technology to advance into much of what we use today.

Dr. Fredrick was the department chair of Astronomy, at the University of Virginia, when he was assigned a research project designed to assist NASA in its desire to put American astronauts on the moon.