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As I said, we went to Milwaukee again yesterday. Last week we went to hang out at the hotel and watch our friends' son Ike, which left no time for sightseeing. So, we made the decision to come back on Friday.


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The difference between horror and torture porn is this. Horror is walking through a weed-choked, windswept, and abandoned graveyard by midnight under the full moon, all the while feeling the creepy, sweat-inducing suspicion that something is watching you and licking its lips ( Read more... )

Found it for $4 at the the con. Can't be bad. Apparently there's a whole series of these 1974 proto-fotonovels.


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Colonel Gentleman's List of Five Things mrdankelly doesn't feel one way or another about, but which seem to bother many people on the Internetses.

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From my library:


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Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who played a murdering son-of-a-bitch rapist, thinks you should read more, starting out with Watchmen. maybe daddy will read it to you before you go to sleep each night.

Oh, please, let there be a Rorschach one eventually. "READ. Or break little finger. (hurm)."


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Plunging further into my book collection. This comes from one edition of a series of illustrated texts.

The guy at the bottom of the first cartoon looks so damn rueful. "They'll pay! They'll all pay!"


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Currently reading The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard. Kane is a puritan swordsman who travels the globe, fighting ghosts, monsters, necromancers, and witch doctors.


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I'd like to dig into some new horror (and by that I mean contemporary books... though I'd love to hear about all your old favorites as well. They'll have to pry my Mary Shelley from my cold, dead hands). Any particularly spooky modern writers I should be aware of? Smarter writers are preferred, though I don't mind the occasional potboiler.