Month: January 2016

Lots of cannibalism in the werewolf news this week. First I must report on Ocasr-winner Anthony Hopkins’s regrets about reprising the role of Hannibal Lecter after the success of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, then I chance upon this juicy little tidbit. (And yes, I am aware that using a phrase like “juicy little tidbit”…

Actors can be pretty fickle. Trust me, I speak as one gazing out from the inside. I’ve done my share of acting; granted, not on the same level of success as Sir Anthony Hopkins. And I’ve associated with scores of others, perhaps as MANY as Sir Anthony; whether these were unpaid “amateurs” or starving up-and-comers…

Okay, it’s more like one-and-a-third-headed, but that wouldn’t have made for such a snazzy title for this article. Granted, it would be a little more on target for the subject matter of this magazine if the creature involved had been a wolf instead of a puma, but this news story was just too good to…

I really hope this is true. This witness, Tony Holgate, is far from the only witness to claim to have seen a Thylacine, aka a Tasmanian Tiger, aka a Tasmanian Wolf. For those who may not know, the “Tassy Tiger” is—or was—one of the most unusual and remarkable animals to live in recent times. A…

Oh, what insidious, nefarious racism! Marvel Comics is sneaking one by us, fanboys (and girls)! What on the surface appeared a credible effort to fix a minority character (not to say a minor character) in a prominent position at the head of Marvel’s superhero pantheon, the replacement of Steve Rogers as Captain America with his…

I’m fascinated by the concept of alternate species of human beings. We know that we, Homo sapiens, at one time shared this planet with numerous other, different versions of ourselves. Neanderthals are the most well known, but there were many others. These were beings so much like us. Relating to them would be so easy.…

Back in my college days, one of my professors was deriding the belief in Bigfoot, but actually being fair enough to admit the far more than common prevalence of sightings by rational people throughout the country and the world. While he was describing the wide geographical range, one student asked him: “How does Bigfoot get…

People with an interest in Abnormal Psychology can debate all day long about the differences between a “psychopath” and a “sociopath.” Both describe a person who lacks the ability to feel empathy. More to the point, a psychopath/sociopath has no conscience. Such a person has a reptile brain, a primitive brain, the kind that, theoretically,…

The folks over at Schiffer Books sure do make some pretty shelf swag. Pretty inside and out. The latest selection I was asked to review, SEEKING BIGFOOT, is no exception to this rule. The author, Michael Newton, also penned STRANGE WEST VIRGINIA MONSTERS, which I have reviewed previously, and a host of other monster- and…

Here’s an interesting little story. I don’t usually look to any particular person’s conspiracy theories as fodder for articles, as I have found such theories, and such people, a labyrinthine miasma from which one can expect to mine little in the way of entertainment value and from which one extricates oneself, having entered therein, with…