the words and worlds of John Robinson
I like special edition magazines. Collector's editions, commemorative issues, whatever label you want to slap on them, I like them. At last count (which was just now), I currently have forty-six of these specialty magazines. That number is certainly no world record and I'm definitely not vying for one. Is forty-six on the high side? …
Do you remember the story of Little Red Riding Hood? It's a popular bedtime story told around the world. I remember my mother and grandmother telling me the story when I was a kid. We even had storybooks of Red, a Little Golden Book edition if I remember correctly (it's been a while since then). …
I love a good mummy story. Sadly, I've not read many because I really don't know of many. I once had a book of mummy stories that was so terrible (not well written at all) I couldn't get through the first one. Someone suggested Bram Stoker's The Jewell of the Seven Stars, but after my …
Continue reading "The Long Night of the Grave by Charles L. Grant"
On June 22, 2020, director Joel Schumacher passed away. He wrote Car Wash and The Wiz as well as writing and directing D. C. Cab which was a must-see movie and cable staple when I was in elementary school. He also directed The Lost Boys, which is a horror classic, and Flatliners (the original with Julia Roberts, which, like …
In May of 2015, I had the honor of meeting "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. I told him that when I was kid, when I watched the former World Wrestling Federation, he used to scare the teetotal hell out of me. He laughed, I laughed, and I'm proud I was able to share a laugh with such …
Continue reading "Movie of the Week: Hell Comes to Frogtown"
"Just a visitor you see, So much wanting to be see...." -John Cale, Paris 1919 The first time I saw the Angel of Death, I mistook it for a friend. If you're wondering how many times I've seen it, or him, the answer is twice. The first encounter was at a distance. The second was …
I cut my teeth as a child watching The Twilight Zone. My brother and I used to stay up late on summer nights and watch reruns of the original on a local syndicated station (WZTV Channel 17 long before it was owned by Fox, you couldn't beat it). I have watched my favorite episodes time and …
Barbara is a young college student who lands a, mostly, cushy summer job as a babysitter for a prominent couple in a quaint New England community. She is the live-in sitter when Mr. and Mrs. Adams leave for an extended trip abroad. What poor Barbara didn't know was that the Adams' children, teen Bobby and …
Continue reading "Book of the Month, July: Let’s Go Play At the Adams’"
Don't you hate it when you're driving through the English countryside in a car with a strange woman who is going to see her drug-addicted sister and the drug-addicted sister's photographer boyfriend/captor is killed by the zombie of the village homeless man? It's a real bummer, for sure. Welcome to The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. …
Continue reading "Movie of the Week: The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue"
If you are a horror fan, there is nothing more satisfying than watching a movie that gives you goosebumps and sends chills itching over your scalp. We can watch movie after movie and have no scared reaction, and that's not to say that those horror movies are bad. Even good ones won't make us jump …
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