Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Stephen King's The Shining, book and film

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I’m a big fan of The Shining , book and film. Both work really well, for slightly different reasons. My grandfather owned this edition. I en...
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Thursday, October 3, 2024

The haunting season is here, in Lovecraft Country

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Heading to a trail behind my home, in Essex County. "It is the night-black Massachusetts legendary which packs the really macabre '...
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Thursday, December 7, 2023

The hellscape of KISS avatars and AI art

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KISS (holograms) love you! KISS just wrapped up a 50-year career in typical KISS fashion. Selling product. Not content to leave the stage wi...
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Monday, October 9, 2023

October reading update

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I set an annual reading goal of 52 books. Which I rarely meet, but it gives me a north star to steer toward. To have any shot of reaching th...
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

On staying in and weaving out of reading lanes, and Stephen King’s Christine

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Feel the fury, of a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury My reading often keeps me in a well-worn, familiar travel lane.  That lane is, broadly, fan...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

The fine sounds of a silver stringed bard

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  Ghouls, guitars, and gals... good stuff. My latest essay/review is up on the blog of Tales from the Magician's Skull. Check out The Fa...
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Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Wolfen, Whitley Strieber

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I own this same edition... Stephen King once said that the release people get from horror is "sort of narcotic," freeing us from o...
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Friday, October 8, 2021

Ten Sword-and-Sorcery Tales For the Haunting Season

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My latest post is up on the blog of Tales from the Magician's Skull : Ten Sword-and-Sorcery Tales for the Haunting Season. I'm feeli...
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Monday, December 14, 2020

The Last Wolf, a review

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If you are a fan of Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane, or his horror fiction—or even if you’re only mildly interested in Wagner but have a broader i...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Stephen King, Halloween, and the joy of reading

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I own this edition, just a lot more beat up. Yesterday evening I experienced an unmitigated pleasure. The nonsense and hard work of the day ...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

Remembering Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994)

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Kane navigating his skeleton crew. Sword-and-sorcery and horror are bedfellows. The former is fantasy infused with the grit of history...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Zombie Survival Guide, a review

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The next time a Class 2 zombie outbreak occurs in my neighborhood, I’ll be well-prepared to deal with the shambling corpses of hungry un...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Audio zombies: A review of We’re Alive: A Story of Survival, season one

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As a lover of all things zombie I leapt at the chance to review the first season of We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the first seas...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

A brief tribute to the stories of Ray Bradbury

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I came to Ray Bradbury at what is likely a later age than most. I never had to read Fahrenheit 451 in school; if I read one of his shor...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Some nice ink for a deserving writer

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I came across this story at the New York Times and thought it worth sharing:  Joe R. Lansdale is a Fresh Discovery, Decades in the Making . ...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

25 years of Evil Dead 2? Groovy.

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Wow, has it really been 25 years since Evil Dead 2 came out?  Guess it's time to break out the VCR (yes, I still own one. And lots of V...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison, a review

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More than 30 years ago in the introduction to Strange Wine (1978) Harlan Ellison railed against television, declaring it the death knell ...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

I’m an Elvis man when it comes to zombies

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It’s often been said—I believe the saying originated with the film Pulp Fiction —that you’re either an Elvis man or a Beatles man. You can’t...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

The Conqueror Worm

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Lo! t’is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a thea...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Rising by Brian Keene, a review

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If there’s one comforting aspect to zombies, it’s the fact that they’re brainless, depicted in most mediums as well below the level of prima...
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