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"Dracula"
I received "The Annotated Dracula" that cinchntouch recommended. I've spent a little bit of time flipping through it, and gelling what I thought while reading ( Read more... ) -
"My Amityville Horror"
This is a documentary that you can see on Netflix streaming. It is about Daniel Lutz, now 49, the eldest son in the Amityville case. I'm fascinated by Amityville, which I maintain was an elaborate hoax. Daniel says it was true, but tells little of the story. What does come through is that he hated his stepfather George, who I gathered from ( Read more... ) -
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman describes "Coraline" as a "fairy tale in the same way that Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale". It's twice as terrifying too; in H&G all the witch wanted to do was eat the kids, not kill them and drain their souls into wispy husks. I've read quite a few anthologies of horror and "Coraline" beats them all hollow. -
Lovecraftian thoughts
I went to a panel on Cthulhu becoming a pop culture icon yesterday. There was much talk of the mythos having an underlying theme of repressed sexuality, that Howard created a mythos for atheists, and the otherness of beings that can live at the bottom of the sea and/or in outer space ( Read more... ) -
High-tech horror
My new Kindle is going to deepen my horror literacy. Since so many late 19th/early 20th century horror is available for $2.00 or less, I've been loading up the Kindle with these beauties ( Read more... ) -
"The House"
By Bentley Little. I'm defaulting to my "books" icon although this one could either be headed by The Bearer of the Yellow sign (because it was horror) or Pedobear. Pedobear bowed out saying, "Not too old but too scary". Chris Hanson didn't have the courage to show up ( Read more... ) -
"Night of the Seagulls"
Just watched this one last night, and I think out of the whole "Blind Dead" series of horror films this one is my favourite. As I was watching it, I was reminded of this Victorian ghost story by E. Nesbitt, "Man Size In Marble". Here it is off a Japanese website, for your enjoyment: horror, literature(Untitled)
How do you spell perfection? The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing "Californication" at Coachella at sunset, that's how. 91X just did a broadcast of it ( Read more... )