Today was once known in parts of New England as Mischief Night, or by similar names. My mother grew up in Dedham, MA, in the forties and fifties, and she has an odd story about the tradition she saw in her childhood for October 30th. She grew up in a neighborhood which is now a genteel suburb but was then a commercial intersection full of urban ( Read more... )

"Luella Miller," by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, read by April Grant. Happy October!

I've also started a Tumblr for my audio work: The Moon Dial. Updates will be irregular but heartfelt, and continue beyond October. As I said there--

Our first story of the season: all about good neighbors being kind and helpful.

The Moon Dial is taking requests now. Do ( Read more... )

The Davis Square Theatre is doing "The Woman in Black," in October. It's on an odd schedule because they're using it to fill in the nights between their other big autumn productions. The play will be running Monday to Wednesday, Oct. 12, 13, and 14, and then again on Oct. 26, 27 and 28. There's only one night that I can conveniently see this play: ( Read more... )

(from my Tumblr because why not. Look HERE for stills.)

Just watched this again recently and I love it to bits. It’s as if this movie was made in an alternate reality where the filmmakers grew up reading the work of Gemma Files.

This movie contains:

-Julian Sands as an evil blond pretty-man known only as the Warlock, frequently seen in toe bondage ( Read more... )

Hocus Pocus is one of those movies I love so much it's hard for me to write rationally about it. I watched it as a preteen who didn't see many movies, and I thought it was the best thing ever. Recently I rewatched it with kestrell, and then again with other friends. It has held up really well ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from tumblr because why not)

Two things make a trend, three or more things make a genre. I’ve come to realize that there is a very small musical niche of songs about horror movie actors.

Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”

White on white translucent black capes

Back on the rack

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, “Peter Lorre (He’s A Brick)”

Don’t ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been enjoying watching makeup tutorials by Pinkstylist. The Jack Skellington look and the Sally look particularly charm me ( Read more... )

Cambridge Historical Tours just posted last year's (mostly unused) Ghost Tour publicity shots. Go and marvel. How terrible the aspect of her eyes!

Hey!  Here's someone else besides me who is a horror fan and who has noticed that horror as a genre is freakin' transphobic.  I've never seen anywhere near as much discussion of this as I would like.  A thoughtful article, here.  Fair warning: contains pictures that are probably not safe for work or for your good mood.  The author makes very good ( Read more... )

I gotta stop apologizing for my long absences here; the more I promise that they won't happen anymore, the more I drop off the face of the internet.  It's all good stuff, real life demanding my attention/eating my brain, but I miss hanging out with people here.  Know that I'm still reading even when I don't post ( Read more... )