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Continue reading →: November 1, 3:07am
Once again, Halloween has come and gone, and we’ve got a whole year to wait until it comes around again. Normally, this time of year leaves me feeling melancholy, but this year has been remarkably good. We’ve had an open house over the weekend, which has kept me busy and…
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Continue reading →: 13 of my Favorite Horror Movies (That Never Make These Lists)
It’s the time of the season when everybody starts trotting out their lists of favorite horror movies. I’ve tried doing those in the past, and maybe one day I’ll try an exhaustive one again, but this year I was just thinking about the problem with those lists, which is that…
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Continue reading →: “The air itself is filled with monsters.”
Last night, I sat in a full theatre and watched Bride of Frankenstein on the big screen. This morning, I woke up to gray, rainy weather. The day before my birthday, and two days before Halloween, and it finally really feels like October. There’s nothing left to be said about Bride of…
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Continue reading →: The Witch’s Mirror (1962)
As promised, The Witch’s Mirror kind of has everything. Starting off with an opening narration over Goya paintings, it wastes absolutely no time getting into weird supernatural happenings, and the first scene introduces the titular mirror and also showcases the film’s predilection for low-rent in-camera effects, as the witch and her…
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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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