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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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Continue reading →: “It is as if the entire film is set in a graveyard in the middle of the night.”
That quote is from Troy Howarth who was, at the time, writing about Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby … Kill! for his intimidating coffee table tome The Haunted World of Mario Bava. The quote, alas, probably can’t be as freely applied to my story “Marcella,” which is inspired more by the…
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Continue reading →: All on Tape
Astute readers will already be aware that I have been a loyal devotee of Analog Sunday for many years now. For those who don’t know what that is, Analog Sunday is a monthly event hosted (currently) at the Rewind dive bar behind and beneath the Screenland Armour. It is the…
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Continue reading →: “But by God, Eliot, it was a mask from life!”
Lovecraft is famously – and perhaps apocryphally – difficult to adapt into other mediums, which hasn’t stopped literally hundreds of people from trying over the years. As his stories go, I have always been of the opinion that “Pickman’s Model” made the transition with more ease than many, and my…
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Continue reading →: “Weirdos turn me on.”
Against my better judgement, I am writing about Incubus. Despite its reputation as just a bunch of people attempting to ride the coattails of Stephen King’s phenomenal success, the paperback horror boom of the 1980s actually produced a wide range of different writers and stories, most of them now buried…
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Continue reading →: Speaker for the Dead
Like most of the rest of the horror community, it would seem, I learned last night that Brian Lumley passed away earlier this month at the age of 86. Lumley’s is a name that never quite attained the same sheen as certain other writers who were his predecessors or contemporaries,…
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Continue reading →: Tales for Those Who Can’t Sleep
I watch a lot of movies [brief pause for murmurs of shock to subside] and I read a lot, but I don’t actually read a lot of novels. Last year, I made a conscious effort to read more of them, and largely succeeded, reading some 16 or so novels in…
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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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