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Continue reading →: Monster Awareness Month Days 3-6
Day 3: King Kong (1933) The original and still the best. King Kong is one of my favorite movies of all time! I recently listened to the commentary track with Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, and they pointed out that the jungle scenes were inspired by Dore, which I had…
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Continue reading →: Monster Awareness Month Days 1&2
Yesterday kicked off Monster Awareness Month. I didn’t post anything up here to celebrate, because I was busy being snowed in by the Snowpocalypse or whatever you want to call it. But I plan to drop in every few days and at least talk about the movies that’ve gone by…
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Continue reading →: Monster Month PSA
This is just a reminder that Monster Awareness Month is starting in just a few days. This coming Tuesday, specifically, though related content is likely to start as early as this weekend or Monday right here. The official content will be showing up there, but I’ll try and talk about…
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Continue reading →: Historical Lovecraft Cover & TOC
Sorry I’ve not been posting more. Things have been hectic. But I come bearing gifts! The TOC and full cover of Historical Lovecraft are up over at Innsmouth Free Press. For convenience, though, I’ll reproduce the table of contents here: The City of Ropes | Albert Tucher The Far Deep…
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Continue reading →: From the Vault: The Shuttered Room & It!
I’m unveiling the first of what I hope’ll become a semi-regular feature around here, where I talk about the old and awesome horror/monster/suspense movies that I love so much. I kind of already do that, but now I’m going to have a name for it. First up, I finally caught…
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Continue reading →: Year in Review
2010 was quite a year. I figured, since so much had happened that I was having a hard time keeping it all straight, I’d try to do a “year in review” post summarizing all the crazy stuff that happened this last year, to the best of my ability. Of course,…
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Continue reading →: Cronos Criterion
I’m planning on a post explaining kind of what I’ve been up to all year, since not even my wife can really keep it straight these days, but I’m waiting on something before I do it. So for now, I thought I’d talked real briefly about the new Criterion edition…
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Continue reading →: Delicate Toxins
I’m pleased and proud to announce that my story “The Devil in the Box” will be appearing in the forthcoming anthology Delicate Toxins from Side Real Press. The TOC is up on their website, and I’m in some very good company, including Richard Gavin, Reggie Oliver, Mark Samuels, and many…
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Continue reading →: Top Ten Books of 2010
2010 is, I believe, the first year of my entire life where I read more than ten books that came out that same year. Hence, I’m honoring the occasion by making my first-ever Top Ten Books of the Year list. It’s mostly comics, and about half of it’s stuff by…
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Continue reading →: The Bad News
Yesterday our cats went in to the vet for a checkup and vaccinations and suchlike. During which time we learned that one of them (Abby) will be needing a pretty expensive dental procedure. Which we were worried might be the case, but still. Fortunately we think we can afford to…








