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Rushing the Halloween Season
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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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Hollow Earth Expeditions: We Live Inside!
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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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Continue reading →: “I’m an actress, not a human sacrifice!” – Ghost Chase (1987)A decade before Independence Day and nearly as long before even Universal Soldier or Stargate, Roland Emmerich made a pair of odd family/comedy/horror hybrids. The first of these (and Emmerich’s second feature-length production, after his film school thesis project, The Noah’s Ark Principle, which showed at the 34th Berlin International…
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Continue reading →: Make Your Voices HeardNominations are now open for The Pitch‘s Best of KC 2025 and I’m throwing my hat (and, frankly, several other hats, for good measure) into the ring. You can nominate me, Orrin Grey, for Best Local Author (under People & Places) and, while you’re at it, nominate the Horror Pod…
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Continue reading →: “The World is Hell” – Felidae (1994)“Animals are good human beings, and human beings are evil animals.” Not too long ago, I was hired to write a brief and fairly surface-level explainer of German krimi films for a client. Who knew that I would shortly be putting that same knowledge to use while watching an animated…
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