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Continue reading →: “Girl’s Just Wanna Have Fun” – Night of the Comet (1984)
When I was a kid, we had a VHS copy of Night of the Comet at my house for a while. I don’t remember where it came from–maybe one of my older brothers owned it, or maybe a friend did–but I don’t think I ever actually watched it, I just…
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Continue reading →: Monsters from the Table of Contents
Monsters from the Vault, collecting every single one of my more than four years worth of Vault of Secrets columns from Innsmouth Free Press, is now available for pre-order, and cheaper than cover price! But you don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s the blurb it got from…
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Continue reading →: The Nameless Dark: A Review
Don’t let how long it took me to finish reading Ted E. Grau‘s debut collection throw you; my reading schedule has been all screwed up lately, and various things kept coming along to interrupt the process, and, frankly, I didn’t want to rush things. I wanted to savor each story,…
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Continue reading →: “You’ve got to pick up every stitch”
Tonight is Walpurgisnacht, which, if it means nothing else, means that we’re at the halfway point on our trip back around to Halloween. Along with your bonfires and whatever else, I recommend some seasonally appropriate reading to mark the occasion. As you probably already know, I’ve got a story called…
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Continue reading →: “Each one of these things comes from an egg, right?”
It was March 14, 1989 when I first saw Aliens in its broadcast television premiere. (Thanks to Jason McKittrick of Cryptocorium for helping me track down the date.) I must have been seven years old–I would turn eight that October–and it hit me the same way that Star Wars seems to have hit most…
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Continue reading →: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Revisionist Glee
For the month of March and into April I was watching with some interest a March Madness-style bracketed tournament over at the Save Horror Twitter in which their best-reviewed movies competed for reader votes to see which one would ultimately emerge on top. A few days ago, I expressed my…
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Continue reading →: Numbers of the bEast: The One We Keep Secret
Almost all of this story is true. Or no, wait, maybe most of it is a lie. Either way, I’m not going to tell you which part is which. # So there we were, standing outside that bar near the Hollywood Theater–the one that isn’t the Moon & Sixpence or…
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Continue reading →: My Soul to Take (2010)
I’m just going to go ahead and say it: My Soul to Take got a bad rap. I’m not gonna say “gets,” because I don’t think anybody even talks about it enough to say anything bad about it anymore, minus a passing mention in that episode of Castle where Wes Craven guest starred.…
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Continue reading →: Purged
I recently–in front of The Witch, I think, inappropriately enough–saw the trailer for the third installment of the Purge franchise, which is coming out this summer under the fairly cute title The Purge: Election Year, and remembered that I’d heard that the first two movies in the series were better than I expected,…
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Continue reading →: High Adventures
Though I have played tabletop role-playing games most of my life–and spent more than my fair share of that time as GM–I had never actually written an adventure until I was asked by Matt Goetz of Privateer Press to put together a campaign to cap off the forthcoming Iron Kingdoms Unleashed…








