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Continue reading →: October Reads
Lots of people have favorite books that they re-read every year at about the same time. Perennial October classics include Something Wicked This Way Comes and–with a very special place in my heart–Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October. Last year, I contributed a story to the Lovecraft eZine‘s Night in the…
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Continue reading →: “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Perfect Crime” (1957)
Nobody epitomizes the perfect actor for Halloween better than Vincent Price. Over the years I’ve seen most (though still not all) of his films, but luckily for me, he also did quite a lot of television work over the years, so I’ve always got new Vincent Price gems to stumble…
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Continue reading →: It Has Begun
Seriously, ten days into the month of October and I haven’t posted even one single time? I am the worst Countdown to Halloween participant ever. I blame looming deadlines, and unexpected vet visits, and adjusting myself to the rhythms of freelancing. Mostly, though, I’m probably just bad at this. Unfortunately, we…
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Continue reading →: On “Under the Shadow”
It’s not really a subject that I’ve talked about a lot here, but I grew up with tabletop wargaming. Warhammer was probably my biggest introduction to the fantasy genre. I didn’t have the money to play very often, and I never collected a lot of miniatures–and certainly lacked the patience and…
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Continue reading →: Fund Drive & Countdown
Got a couple of quick announcements to make: First off, I’ve been a little late in mentioning this, but Strange Horizons is holding its annual fund drive as we speak (or as I type, and you read). As always, everyone who contributes to the fund drive is entered for prize…
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Continue reading →: On Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola has a story that he tells in interviews and things all the time, that when he first read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, he knew what he wanted to do with his life. For me, that same moment came when I read Mike Mignola’s work on Hellboy. Which is just one of…
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Continue reading →: In Other News
While the big talk around these parts lately has been me quitting my day job for the life of the full-time writer, there’s also been some other major news that I’ve had to keep under wraps until just now: I’ve been approached to write some fiction for Skull Island eXpeditions,…
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Continue reading →: A Day of Playing Ball
“I’m gonna be sophisticated and have no job. Or a job that looks from a distance like I do nothing.” – Troy Barnes, Community This is it. Final countdown. When I ride the elevators down at the end of the day today, it will be for the last time. And not…
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Continue reading →: Yog Monster from Space (1970)
Yog Monster from Space, on the other hand. Oh man. You guys have no idea how close you came to this “review” just being the word “dude” in boldface and all caps with a couple of exclamation points and then a link to the trailer. For those who aren’t aware, the…
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Continue reading →: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Running through the remaining films of John Carpenter that I haven’t already seen, I’m really getting into the dregs now. Still, Memoirs of an Invisible Man wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d heard. Which is just to say that it didn’t spend its entire 99 minute running time trying to kill my…
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