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Continue reading →: We Are ProvidenceIn just a couple of days, I will be in Providence for NecronomiCon. It’s my second time attending the “international festival of weird fiction, art, and academia.” I had a blast at my first NecronomiCon a few years ago, and planned to make it a regular thing, but unfortunately COVID…
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Continue reading →: All My Friends Are Skeletons
One of the nicest things about working in a creative field is that sometimes you get to be friends with some of the most talented people you know. People whose work consistently amazes and inspires you. That’s certainly true of my field, where I’m lucky enough to be friends with…
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Continue reading →: NominatedBesides being an absolute mouthful to write or say, Experience Points: The Lost Chapters from Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground is also up for an ENnie this year. You can vote for it at that link, should you be so inclined. I didn’t write Experience Points. Stu Horvath…
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Continue reading →: What a Wonderful Night to Have a Curse
My favorite Castlevania game – and the one that I played the most – was probably Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on the PlayStation. But it wasn’t the one that had the biggest impact on me. Too much of me was already fully formed by the time Symphony of the…
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Continue reading →: Apocalyptic Stop-Motion Rays from the Hollow Earth
I’ll be a guest at the NecronomiCon in Providence August 15-18. It’ll be my second trip out to Providence, and I’m really looking forward to it, even if all my con-going and socializing muscles have sorely atrophied in the last few years. I’m on several panels which certainly represent the……
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Continue reading →: Arcane Secrets
In May of 1997, Wizard magazine ran a contest. Back then, I had a subscription to the mag, so I got every issue, and each issue usually had several contests, though I rarely entered them. This one, though, stuck with me. The gimmick of the contest was simple enough: The…
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Continue reading →: Obsolescence Redux
Last night – on Walpurgisnacht, of all nights – an article from last month began making the rounds suggesting that “AI” had been used to generate preproduction art for the upcoming Hellboy movie. This took Hellboy creator Mike Mignola by surprise and by this morning the Mignolas had spoken with…
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Continue reading →: The Cat Creeps Out of the Bag
Tonight, Tyler Unsell and I will be at the Stray Cat Film Center hosting a FREE screening of the 1939 Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard version of The Cat and the Canary. The show starts at 7pm and will be followed, as always, by our usual semi-academic discussion where we’ll…
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Continue reading →: “Madness is sometimes the best way of dealing with tragedy.” – The Lost Ending of April Fool’s Day (1986)
This post will unavoidably be filled with spoilers for both April Fool’s Day (1986) and the novelization of same by Jeff Rovin. So, if you haven’t at least seen the movie and have somehow managed to make it this far without knowing its notorious twist, then proceed with caution. Or…
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Continue reading →: Feralina
Roughly 18 years ago, Grace and I went to a local shelter to adopt a little black cat named Abracadabra. While we were there, Grace was talking with the shelter folks while I went into the room full of cats to meet Abby. I was sitting in a chair, 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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