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Continue reading →: When It RainsA couple of years ago, we bought a new (to us) house. We love this house, but it has been a trial, in part because it is actually a very old house (more than 100 years) and in part because the people we bought it from flipped it and made…
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Born to Runner-Up
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Continue reading →: Born to Runner-UpGlowing in the Dark didn’t win a Rondo Hatton Award. Is this disappointing? Sure. But it isn’t surprising, and this truly is a case where it’s an honor just to be nominated. During the live chat where the award organizers announced the winners, they said that this was the best…
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Continue reading →: “You have until midnight to find the House on Haunted Hill”Okay, I lied. Today is the final day to vote for Glowing in the Dark for Book of the Year (Nonfiction) in the Rondo Hatton Awards. You can click on that link for more info, but all you have to do to vote is send an email to taraco@aol.com with…
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Continue reading →: Bat Appreciation DayToday is Bat Appreciation Day and, to mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to share a player character option I created for use in the 5th edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game. I’ve always loved bats and I’ve always loved goblins, so smushing the two…
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Continue reading →: You Have Seven DaysI promise that, here at least, this is the last you’ll hear from me about this subject, but you have only seven days left to vote for Glowing in the Dark for Book of the Year (Nonfiction) at the Rondo Hatton Awards! Voting is easy. All you have to do…
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Continue reading →: Notes from Underground“The audience knows the truth. The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second… then you can make them wonder.”—The Prestige (2006) Before we get to today’s big news, I want to take a moment to remind you to…
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Continue reading →: “What’s the matter, don’t you like it?”Born in 1894, Rondo Hatton suffered from acromegaly, the symptoms of which set in during adulthood and gave him the unique face that he used to play heavies and monsters in a handful of movies before his untimely death in 1945. He is probably best known for playing “the Creeper”…
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“Perhaps mummies are like cocoons waiting to hatch.”
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Continue reading →: “Perhaps mummies are like cocoons waiting to hatch.”In Koga Shinichi’s Mansect (1975), a bug-obsessed loner begins a grisly transformation into a humanoid insect – or an insect-like humanoid. If you think you can more or less imagine where this is going, you’re probably wrong. “[S]tanding with Umezz Kazuo as one of the pioneers of shojo horror manga,”…
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Continue reading →: Hope You Have A Strong Heart“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth / Our children know and suffer the armed men.”– Stephen Vincent Benet, “Litany for Dictatorships” Times have been hard for a lot of folks, and there are many reasons why the immediate future looks bleak. I’m worried about a great many things –…
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Continue reading →: “It Is Too Much For Any Man – Living Man Or Ghost. Leave Me To My Books.”I love Hellboy, and Hellboy is where I first learned to love the work of Mike Mignola, but Hellboy is not my favorite thing that he has done. My favorite things by Mike Mignola are the odd little stories that he wrote and drew to accompany The Amazing Screw-On Head…
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Rondo Award-nominated author Orrin Grey writes disjointed and irresponsible things about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters.
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