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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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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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Continue reading →: All the News That’s Fit to PrintJust a couple of days into 2025, but already a lot has happened that I should probably address here. In my year-end wrap-up, I mentioned some new projects that would be coming to fruition, and some of those have already begun. Unfortunately, the end of 2024 saw the conclusion of…
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Continue reading →: Mary Shelley Didn’t Invent the GothicYesterday marked the 207th anniversary of the original publication of Mary Shelley’s immortal classic Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, which makes today a great time to both celebrate its legacy and clear up an apparently persistent misconception about the novel’s role in the development of the gothic as a genre.…
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Continue reading →: Making a ListThere are still a few days left of 2024 but, for all intents and purposes, the year is at an end. It has been a tumultuous one, both in the world and for me, personally, and 2025 doesn’t show signs of being the restful respite that we could all probably…
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Continue reading →: “Does damnation mean anything to you?” – La Main du Diable (1943)A thing that has happened to me more than a few times in my life is that I have seen a single still from a movie that has convinced me to add that movie to my watchlist, even when it has often taken years for me to finally track down…
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Continue reading →: The Most Merciful Thing in the WorldThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each…
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Continue reading →: What We Can Do
When a tree fell in my neighbor’s yard, I went over to help her clean it up. I hadn’t lived in this house very long at the time, and had never met that neighbor before. There was no motive in what I was doing, except that she needed help, and…
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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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