So, it's time for a new Monster Magazine Review, and this time around, it's Castle of Frankenstein #16, an issue I only have in a coverless copy. This is the last monster mag in my collection (as I write this back in October), so after this is done, I may have to come up with something else in its place (perhaps I'll move the Crestwood House Movie Monsters books to here... plus I have another monster...
By David Lambert - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Image Entertainment Acquires Spine-Chilling TV Show 'THRILLER' For 2010 Release Hailed by writer Stephen King as 'the best horror series ever to... (more)
This May, 1939, edition of American pulp magazine, Weird Tales , is notable for containing a Welsh story by Robert Bloch . Bloch, who would later go on to pen Psycho , was always a prolific producer of pulp fiction. His Welsh tale is entitled, The Dark Isle , and is set on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Featuring bloodthirsty druids, sacred groves, and human sacrifice, it essentially retells the legend of how...
For me Herbert Van Thal’s name was synonymous with horror stories, but as well as an anthologist he was a publisher, agent and biographer. I just had to see his name on the front cover of a book and I’d get a tingle in my spine. I’ve always had a love affair with ghost and horror stories – for as long as I can remember and as a teenager I used to get through the numbered Pan...
The Vault of Horror offers a top-30 list: 1. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) 3. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) 4. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975) 5. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1931) 6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson (1886) 7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)...
Remember two years ago, when Otto Penzler gave the world THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF PULPS, containing more than 1,000 pages of some of the greatest tales ever told, all for $25? It was the bargain of the year, and the same goes for the equally lengthy, equally wonderful THE VAMPIRE ARCHIVES: THE MOST [...]
Go away. When will you go? Now is just a little too late for my preferences. But life is full of little disappointments, isn't it? Such as your appearance at my retreat. And, by the look on your face, my appearance to you. Well, then, let's just cut these disappointments to a minimum. You turn around and head back downhill, and we'll both be satisfied, no? No? Well, hang it all, what on earth is your...
Print: OK a few marks - Sound: Good - Label: Vipco - Year: 1972 - Cover: Good - Format: 16:9 - Length: 1h26m/1h28m - Before: Yes on TV several times - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 6/10. Amicus Films and Psycho author Robert Bloch join forces for a seventies classic, Asylum ! When Doctor Martin ( Robert Powell ) arrives at Dunsmoor Asylum , he expects to be interviewed by director Doctor...
I've always maintained that anything created for the good of mankind will within thirty days be turned into something bad for mankind. Human flight was quickly weaponized. Drugs were used to addict as well as cure. And the internet is filled with so many poisonous websites you feel contaminated just hearing about them. But one of the many worthwhile things the internet has done is secure the work of...
Attorneys for the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center are asking a Cook County judge to vacate an arbitrator's award ordering them to rehire a counselor fired for allegedly striking a teen inmate. The suit filed on Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court asks that a judge to allow the juvenile center's decision to fire Lamont Johnson be restored. Johnson was fired following an internal investigation...
By Dorothea Marshall It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples. Alex and The Gypsy: Roaming tale of romance between bail bondsman...
I’ve installed myself in my home for the coming weeks, in Tryserum a few miles south of Valdemarsvik in Smaland, Ostergotland County. My internet connection is uncertain at best, but right now it seems to work. So instead of surfing I’m glad to have brought a more analogue pleasure to kill time; books. On this trip I [...]
I came across this old review by accident, and found that I didn't remember it at all. It appeared in the New York Review of Science Fiction some fifteen years ago. JONATHAN CARROLL: LONG, MEDIUM, AND SHORT After Silence by Jonathan Carroll (London: Macdonald, 1992; L14.99; 240 pages; New York: Doubleday, 1993; $21.00; 227 pages) "Uh-Oh City," F&SF, June 1992 "The Lick of Time,"...