Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Top 5 horror movie babes of the 70s and 80s

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I'm howling... I was born in 1973 and by the mid-80s developed a taste for horror films. It was a time when werewolves and slashers were...
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Friday, August 22, 2025

Revisiting H.P. Lovecraft's "The Silver Key"

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I don’t expend a lot of digital ink on H.P. Lovecraft, but everything I do is related in one way or other to the old gent from Providence (b...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

I am Werewolf Boy

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Written storytelling has a unique and curious aspect. If a story has a great enough impact on you as a child or young adult, re-reading it c...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

I've finally got it: Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things

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Pumped for this delivery. When I was a kid I used to regularly check out Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things  (1973, Rand McNal...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Three things

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Walk with me... Thing 1 I just finished re-reading The Long Walk after a long walk of my own, years and years of life since my last reading...
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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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