title: Stories from the Life of Ronnie Kaye: MONSTERS
author: Ron D Kingsley
description: Ron D. Kingsley is a child at heart. He is also both a Clinical and a School Psychologist now in private practice. For the last thirty years, he has devoted his time and energy working with children and families as a psychologist. Ron knows what it means to be a child and knows all about monsters (he was terrified of them himself as a child). This book is intended to both entertain and help children manage their fears, especially those about the monsters in our lives. Ron lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife of thirty-four years. They have four grown children and five grandchildren.
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  A contemporary Lovecraftian tale of art, obsession, and elder gods.
  
  
  
  
  
  There were no monsters at first, only “Arthur Dufresne Crispin,” who met me on
  the front steps of his apartment in the Village: towheaded, tall, and lean,
  with long spidery fingers that closed mine in a strangler’s handshake. He had
  an accent that would have told someone from Boston or Providence a lot about
  his parents and the pedigree of his dog, but told me jack-all, except that he
  was the kind of guy who introduced himself with his middle name. He wore a
  green Brooks Brothers shirt, and men that pale should be careful wearing
  green. It seeps into the skin.
  
  
  “I’m Deliah Dane,” I said, and followed him up three flights of stairs to his
  studio. “Good light in here.” Crispin kept the place neat. A few still life
  setups in corners, a shelf of sketchb