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Continue reading →: Milestones Are Where You Find Them
Today I went out to a movie for the first time since my surgery. I saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri instead of Thor: Ragnarok, partly because I figure Thor is likely to be around for a while, while Three Billboards may prove a little more transient, at least as far as convenient showtimes go. I…
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Continue reading →: Mean Seasons
Content Warning: Body Horror Wednesday I had my follow-up with the surgeon regarding my recent emergency appendectomy, where I received a clean bill of “healing adequately,” even while I was also warned that my recovery process might be slower than normal because of how much time I spent under the…
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Continue reading →: They Say It’s My Birthday
Content Warning: Body Horror Anyone who has been following along here or on social media is probably already aware that I have not been feeling 100% for a few months now, at the very least. On Friday, we somewhat abruptly discovered at least part of the reason. After two months…
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Continue reading →: Some Warnings to the Curious
As you have no doubt gathered by now, the brand-new deluxe edition of Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings from Strix Publishing is a real, physical object that has actually happened and is currently sitting on my shelf. What you may not yet know is that it can also be sitting on your…
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Continue reading →: “The world is large and unknowable.” – They Remain (2017) & the HPLFF
I flew out to Portland for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (for the third or fourth time now) in large part because I knew that Strix Publishing would have the new deluxe edition of Never Bet the Devil there. (And they did, and it is glorious, and I’m looking forward…
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Continue reading →: The Festival
The hours are condensing down into minutes and ticking away until I will be on a plane and headed for Portland and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. This will be my third or fourth year as a guest, not quite consecutively, at what has rapidly become my favorite convention. To…
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Continue reading →: “You want it to float, don’t you?” – It (2017)
First off, I have never read Stephen King’s doorstop of a novel, and I didn’t see the 1990 TV miniseries until I was already an adult, so it didn’t leave a huge impression on me. Which is basically a long way of saying that I don’t have any special investment…
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Continue reading →: “Why can’t they all be that easy?” – An Appreciation of Mike Mignola
So, good grief, I guess it’s been four years ago already that I wrote a blog appreciation post on Mike Mignola’s birthday that said just about everything that I’m going to say here again, today. In the years that have passed since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet Mike several…
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Continue reading →: “Do you know anything about… witches?” – Suspiria Remastered
Suspiria wasn’t quite my first giallo film, even if purists would probably call it something more like giallo-adjacent. I had previously seen Phenomena (aka Creepers), but hadn’t really known how to understand it, let alone respond to it. So when I watched Suspiria for the first time–late at night, streaming it on my laptop, headphones clamped…
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Continue reading →: Orrin Grey and the Carnival of Cthulhu
This hasn’t been a big year for conventions for me. While I attended the Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird in Atlanta, I missed NecronomiCon by a hair, which means that I have to wait two more years for another chance to go rub shoulders with all the east…








