CASPER, Wyo. – Police made a routine traffic stop early Thursday morning and got more than they bargained for when Roy Tilbott, 51, stepped out of his El Camino for a field sobriety test . . . I’m pretty good at spotting a fake news story. To me, they’re all pretty obvious. Not to brag…
Month: July 2015
The Top Five, and the OTHER Top Five
Unlike many other subgenres of horror, it is difficult to point to a single werewolf novel as the definitive work. Here we go, a list of the Top Five werewolf novels ever written. The criteria a literary work had to meet in order to make this list? As near as I can tell, it’s just…
One Way or Another(kin)
We talked to the internet residents who feel more like foxes, dragons, and cats than members of Homo sapiens. They are called “Otherkin.” Basically, they are human beings who believe themselves to be something else. An elf, a certain kind of animal, dragon, unicorn, mermaid, alien, an elemental spirit of some sort. Lycanthropes fall into…
A legend goes into retirement
Rick Baker retiring: after four decades in the film business, one of the most powerful talents in visual effects is walking away. You wanna see the difference, watch AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Then watch its lackluster sequel, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS. I’m not talking about the overall quality of the films, although there…
The Morbach Werewolf
The Morbach Monster (Munster Von Morbach) is a werewolf that has been allegedly haunting the area of Wittlich in Germany. As an armchair monster scholar, how exciting it is to come across something new! A story with which I am, despite all my years of study on the subject, still unacquainted. I had never before…
Get Horny!
Abbots Bromley is a small, old village in the heart of Staffordshire, England. It has become renowned for its annual “Horn Dance.” This is so freaking cool. It puts one in mind of THE WICKER MAN (the original classic, that is, starring Sir Christopher Lee, not that travesty of a remake with Nicolas Cage), where…
Occam’s Razor Shreds Werewolf Account
She heard a scratching sound from the window shortly after she fell asleep. In a flash of a lightning, she saw a huge, shaggy, wolf-like creature . . . clawing at the screen and staring at her with baleful, glowing, slitted eyes. She saw its bared white fangs. If this story is genuine—and we have…
A Pill or a Prayerbook?
Grunting, clawing, and sensing a hair-covered body with cloven feet and elongated nails are symptoms of people who strongly believe they are werewolves. A researcher dug through the annals of psychiatry to find how common the condition is. Science has not had much success looking for the human soul, although it has tried. Neither has…
Was I too quick to write off TEEN WOLF?
Teen Wolf is an American television series that currently airs on MTV, and in re-runs on TeenNick. It is based on the 1985 film of the same name. Maybe it’s worth a second look. I remember when it was announced that TEEN WOLF would be a new series on MTV. I do recall with a…
Leggo My Steering Wheel!
The mother-in-law, the husband, the amateur map reader, none of these are quite as dangerous a backseat driver as those infamous hands on the roads of Dartmoor. For those of us who love forteana—the collective term for the unexplained, strange, bizarre, or unusual, often with a supernatural or fantastical bent—there are certain cases we know…