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Continue reading →: “There ain’t no stop signs on the black road.” – Dark Harvest (2023)
Over the years, there have been lots of books that changed my life and influenced the path that I would take as a writer, that led me from there to here – wherever here is. One of those is Norman Partridge’s The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists from 2001.…
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Continue reading →: How to See Ghosts (or Surely Bring Them To You)
“This part of the book is for children who were born in the morning or around lunchtime. If you were born at midnight – some say just at twilight – you were probably born with the gift of being able to see ghosts and other spirits and don’t have to…
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Continue reading →: “Forget all these old bugaboos…” – Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
I don’t know where it was that I first saw stills from Flesh and Fantasy, but I’m going to guess that it was courtesy of Richard Sala, who turned me on to plenty of these old movies. The stills you see are always from the first segment, which takes place…
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Continue reading →: Haunted Season
Tomorrow is the first day of October. To the surprise of absolutely no one, October is an important – and busy – time of year for me. And, as always, I have a lot going on this October, from hosting movies to attending movies to a variety of other activities.…
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Continue reading →: Teaching an Old Skeleton New Tricks
I am an old hand when it comes to Halloween haunts. I have been going to them for as long as I can rememember, and they have always been comfort food to me. When I was a kid, I would spend all day at the Joyland amusement park in Wichita,…
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Continue reading →: X Marks the Spot
I think I first got to know Ross Lockhart – please correct me if I’m wrong about this, Ross – after he bought a reprint of one of my stories for The Book of Cthulhu II, which would put it around 2012. Not too long after that, Ross launched his…
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Continue reading →: Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Dinosaurs
When I was a kid, I had a VHS copy of Planet of Dinosaurs that I bought from a flea market. According to Wikipedia, “The film’s director, James K. Shea, instructed most of the budget to be spent on the special effects for the film, which included an array of…
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Continue reading →: “I myself have heard the rattling of chains” – Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow is a frustrating, goofy, pointless mess that barely remembers to have a ghost, a dragstrip, or a hollow – and yet, I had a lot of fun while watching it, and isn’t that the truer measure of whether a movie is “good” or not? Apparently not,…
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Continue reading →: Little Weirdos
There are few things better than little weirdos. By that, I mean gribbly little monsters of various stripes, from goblins to Gremlins to smaller, weirder things. And while there are plenty of examples from throughout history, folklore, and media, some of the original little weirdos are the ones that appear…
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Continue reading →: “Then the law of the night gave birth to crevices through which ghosts could slip.”
I think I was first introduced to the works of prolific Belgian writer Jean Ray (in fact only one of the many pseudonyms of Raymundus Joannes Maria de Kremer) in Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s doorstop survey of classic weird tales simply titled The Weird. The two stories of Ray’s collected…
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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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