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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: Inside at LastIt’s publication day! Notes from Underground arrives in bookstores today, and should be landing in the hands of those who pre-ordered any day now, if it hasn’t already. Among other things, that means this will be our last Hollow Earth Expedition, and that you’re getting it a day early. I…
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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: The King of FearI like to think that the stories in Notes from Underground contain more melancholy than terror, but this is still a horror collection, and these are still horror stories. You don’t have to take my word for it, either – one of them made it all the way into Ellen…
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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: A Warning to Future ManWhile each of the stories in Notes from Underground is linked in some way with my conception of the Hollow Earth, not all of them take place within it, or even adjacent to it. Some involve other phenomena that merely intersect with the Hollow Earth, including two stories preoccupied with…
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Continue reading →: Rushing the Halloween SeasonIt all started when artist Patric Bates posted a watercolor painting to Bluesky entitled “Ghost Theater,” depicting several ghosts going to see a movie called The Witch and the Pendulum. I had already been following Patric for some time, after becoming enamored with his art almost immediately upon seeing it,…
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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: Solid All the Way ThroughThe second of the two epigraphs in Notes from Underground comes from Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film about dueling Victorian stage magicians, The Prestige. It’s a flick I really love, even though I am often lukewarm on Nolan’s movies. There are quite a few reasons for this, besides that I am…
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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: We Live Inside!One fascinating thing about the Hollow Earth is that it stands with one foot planted in two very different worlds. While many of us were introduced to the concept through pulp science fiction stories, Hollow Earth theory is a real thing that has (or at least had) real adherents and…
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Continue reading →: Hollow Earth Expeditions: Counting the Cats in ZanzibarI don’t know what my first exposure to the Hollow Earth was. Probably one of the assorted cinematic adaptations of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth or similar fare, released starting in 1959 and watched by me on television when I was a kid, remembering only the…
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Continue reading →: The Curses of Kazuo UmezuWho is Kazuo Umezu? While you may not know the name, you’ve been touched by his legacy. By combining gruesome and shocking horror imagery with the dominant style of shojo manga in the 1960s, the “god of horror manga” changed the visual language of the form and inspired such celebrated…
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Continue reading →: The Cats Are Sharp AgainA lot has changed since I worked on the Borderlands & Beyond sourcebook for the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem RPG. For starters, I have also been involved in several other sourcebooks for that same game, including the self-contained Strangelight Workshop RPG that is now available for pre-order. By far the biggest…
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Continue reading →: “Is that what I was afraid of?” – Psycho and the Changing Face of Horror“Before Ed and Psycho,” Eric Powell and Harold Schechter write in their 2021 true crime graphic novel Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done, “every movie monster tended to be from somewhere else: Transylvania, Germany, England… or outer space. In his incarnation as Norman Bates, Ed Gein introduced something new…
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