More sad news to all lovers of classic horror and fantasy -- Richard Matheson, author of 'I Am Legend' has just died. I can't even begin to list a fraction of the work this man did. He was one of the last of the original pulp-era Weird Tales alumni, and he also wrote what someone described as some of the most brilliantly nasty and original SF, dark ( Read more... )

Someone had uploaded a whole site's worth of such comics, right here: Comic Book Plus

Try and look for the ones from Dell, like Turok: Son of Stone, or Kona: Monarch of Monster Isle; or even those wacky Ripley's and Boris Karloff Presents comics. Man but they were wild.

Enjoy!

Sad news here for any old school SF and fantasy fans: Jack Vance just died.

And now I'm wondering how many people reading this are going, "Who?"

Jack was one of the 'second tier' SF and fantasy authors* from the 40's right down to the 90's. He wrote some utterly magnificent works, with my favorite definitely being his Dying Earth cycle, which ( Read more... )

Got this by way of a fellow I watch on DA. It's an hour-long film from 1911, restored and with a new music track, of Dante's trip through the Inferno.

So they can still show a movie made before WW1? Maybe there's still hope for a viewable copy of London After Midnight!

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Yoinked with permission from cutelildrow, here are some of the more bizarre things that have been said in the hallowed halls of America's courtrooms.

And remember: these are the people who run our country.

Be warned, some of this gets a little raw.( Read more... )

Special Effects Pioneer and Master of Monsters Ray Harryhausen dead at 92.

If you were a kid of a certain age who liked monsters, you couldn't have lived in the 60's-80's in the US without seeing a Harryhausen flick at least once. And you probably loved them. It didn't matter if it was the Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea, the poor ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm watching Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the love interest in it is Jekyll's ward - so upper middle class - in Victorian London, a suffragette ( Read more... )

Because I would so see it.

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And gosh, who ever thought that the Wacky Races was big in Brazil*?

* -- Unless this was made in Italy. I've already seen 3-4 different versions of 'where it came from'.

Surely I'm not the only person here who ever saw the movie or read the book, right? Peter Benchley's forgotten classic -- The Island?

Here's the trailer:

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Basic plot for those interested: wussy reporter takes his smart-aleck kid along to investigate the Bermuda Triangle disappearances, only to discover that the real problem in the Triangle isn't ( Read more... )

Yes, this actually exists. I don't know WHY, but it does, and here's a link to a recording someone made of this rather bizarre piece of nostalgia.

First half:

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Second half:

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The plot is easily told. Yogi keeps sneaking out of Jellystone Park and making fools of the rangers, so the Park Service sends their 'three best men'* to keep an eye on him ( Read more... )