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Kage Baker never missed Halloween Night. Most of them, she was out running around with a head tucked underneath her arm, filching Hershey Bars from the small relatives we were body-guarding. When the kids were back home and had retreated … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved trick or treating. Not surprising, in someone who so liked Halloween and who never, ever forgot a moment of a cherished childhood. She contrived ways to keep trick or treating, too,  until nearly the year she died. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker never forgot jokes. She never forgot anything. She had two main laughs. The first, better known one, was a whispery snorted  “heh heh”; everyone who knew her heard her do that. The second, though – that was a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker did not deal with machinery. She interfaced with it gingerly, tolerating moving parts and current as long as they did their jobs quietly and required no attention from her. At the first sign of rebellion, she’d abandon her … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was, as I have hinted, a monster snob. She had clear ideas of what constituted the classics, and scorned what she considered to be the etrange nouveau. Every now and then, the iron magnolia in her genetic heritage … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a classicist in her monster preferences, as she was in so many areas of her life. Mind you, we grew up just before the modern monsters began proliferating on the movie screen – no Freddie, no Jason, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had a heart murmur most of her life. We always assumed it was a side effect from a memorable multi-stage measles attack in early childhood – which turned out some years later to have been and/or included rheumatic … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. I mean really, in a familial, beloved-elder-relative sort of way.They permeated part of our childhood. Especially Kage’s, giving her a life-long affection for conflicted villains and noble anti-heroes. Decades later, her version … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was fond of monsters. There are 7 definitions of “monster” that  I can think of off-hand, ranging from  the ancient “omen” to  the rather vulgarly modern “highly successful”; undoubtedly more when one starts peering into the darkened halls … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was my sister and my friend. Probably my best friend, at least from the ages of 14 and 15 – that was high school. That’s where she realized she was funny, in a way that would haunt her … Continue reading →