Online friend Margot Juby brought this to my attention a couple of days ago, and since then I’ve seen several reports on the subject. “Old Stinker” is the name given to a werewolf-like creature known to haunt the industrial areas surrounding the Hull region of England. (And if you, like me, immediately thought of WEREWOLF…
Month: May 2016
Canned Human
People are going to believe what they want to believe, regardless of the evidence, regardless of fact. Belief trumps fact; it shouldn’t, but it does. This past week, upon seeing a ludicrous claim posted on a friend’s social media profile, I felt the need to spare him any more public embarrassment, hoping to encourage him…
Gilles de Rais: Slandered by Sabine Baring-Gould?
A couple of months ago, my theatrical company, EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS (shameless plug time!), finished up our run of my original work, BLUEBEARD: THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS. (More shameless plugging!) Thanks to the wondrous Interwebs, the play was noticed by a young lady named Margot Juby, a resident of jolly old England, a…
Woman Murders Chihuahua to Fake Miscarriage (!?!)
A friend brought this story to my attention, and, as we not infrequently report on this site about humans being mauled by canines, I felt it was a case of turnabout being fair play and such to cover it here. Also, if I am being honest, it’s juts too damn bizarre NOT to cover it.…
Gustave in Florida?
Hey, it could happen. Like, it really COULD. Scientists have confirmed that there are now Nile Crocodiles in the Everglades. (Note: If’n you don’t know it, Nile Crocs are from Africa, and the Everglades are in Florida, so’s it’s doubtful the Nile Crocs got there by themselves. It’s a safe bet they didn’t make the…
Review: KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, Part One
I’d first heard about Carl Kolchak, the Night Stalker, back in an old issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, back when I was yet too little to be able to pronounce the guy’s name. (Remember those “See Jack run” primers from first grade? Well, I was learning to read comic books and monster magazines at…
Kids Need Fairy Tales—the Bloodier the Better!
A recent report by yours truly (https://www.werewolves.com/the-ancient-origins-of-fairy-tales/) was all about how our most common fairy tales have a much older pedigree than previously believed; as established by linguistics experts they predate the Greek myths and many religious texts. They did not historically exist in the forms by which most of us know them today, however,…
Luna the Lamp
Now you can be a werewolf anytime, not just on nights of the full moon! Just like the cartoon character Fangface, who would transform if he so much as LOOKED at a PICTURE of the full moon, any potential lycanthrope is sure to be spurred into transformative action by these babies! They are WAY more…
KOLCHAK, THE NIGHT STALKER, Part Two
Carl Kolchak was a hapless newspaper reporter turned reluctant monster slayer, reluctant in that he ended up having to dispatch the fiend in most episodes because no one else could or would do it. Usually no one else believed the monster even existed, and no one, including Kolchak’s editor, ever believed Kolchak, despite the many…
Review: HOWL
Let me be honest with you. I write quite a few articles per week, every week, and it’s hard to keep up with all the topics I have covered, all the movies or television shows or web series or comics that I have reviewed. I run the risk of repeating myself, though I earnestly try…