Bill Ectric Imagines The Bite

Video by Bill Ectric
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Based on "The Bite"
by Julie Carpenter

Check out this video teaser of "The Bite" from Things Get Weird in Whistlestop. The incomparable Bill Ectric imagines the neat, small world of Mary Edelson Brooks as it comes undone. Subscribe to his YouTube Channel and visit him at billectricking.com.

Check out his collaboration with artist Nick Dunkenstein in Tamper Illustrated.

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How it began for Mary: 

Mrs. Mary Edelson Brookes was a woman whose main claim to fame in the town of Whistlestop was her ability to throw stylish dinner parties: she was also known for her ability to wear exactly the right shoes with exactly the right purse without being too “matchy, the fact that her hair always looked “done,” and because her hybrid tea roses almost always took a prize at the flower show. In addition, she was on three church committees and the town beautification board. Although the difficulty of these achievements was impossible to disregard, Mary was otherwise not the most fascinating person in town. In fact, if you asked her husband Bob, he would have called her stable and meant it as a compliment. Her seventeen-year old daughter, Virginia, would have called her boring and not meant it as a compliment at all. But, as the townspeople noted afterwards, you don’t have to be a fascinating person to have something interesting happen to you.

The story recounted here is a strange one and it's hard to say exactly what did happen to Mary that hot and humid summer. Accounts vary. The story told by the few people closest to Mary is the one that most thoroughly explains the situation. Unfortunately, it's also the most difficult to believe. But strange things were afoot in Whistlestop in those days.