Dark Universe

They’ve gone and given it a name, now. The planned “shared universe” of the Universal Monsters. They’re calling it “Dark Universe.” It’s simple. Catchy. I like it. Will it be dark ENOUGH, though? We’ll just have to wait and see. There is some room for hope. Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, who have been tapped…

Monster Goat

The word “monster” has as its root the Latin term “monstrum,” which in itself has a root as a verb meaning “to reveal” or “to warn.” In years past, the birth of a deformed child, for example, or a deformed animal would have been taken as an ill omen. The births of “monsters” so often…

Bundy in the News

It’s a big week for Ted Bundy. Probably he isn’t aware of it, burning in Hell as he surely is; it’s doubtful they have the Internet in Hell. But it’s a big week for news concerning the sexual sadist serial killer, anyway. First comes word that a new movie is on the works, set to…

The Centaur of Knoxville

“They” will tell you it isn’t real, that it’s just a gaffe, a prank. A modern-Art project. A joke. The Centaur (half man and half horse, in case there’s one of you out there who isn’t that up on his Greek mythology) on display in the library at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville dates…

Where Went The Megafauna?

Actually, we KNOW where they went. They died out. Most of them. There just MIGHT be a few remnant examples still roaming around in the world’s most remote locations. People still report seeing Mammoths in Siberia on occasion, and the Shunka Warakan of Ioway Indian legend just might be a surviving Direwolf. Generally speaking, though,…

Hunting Killers

I sometimes think that I would have made a good profiler. If only you could start out as a profiler, that is, and not have to first join the police academy, then become a beat cop, then work your way up to detective, then maybe become a profiler. Also I am fairly squeamish, so I’d…

Revisiting the (Recent) Classics: AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN

I’ve said before how I don’t get to watch television the old-fashioned way, sitting down on the sofa at a prescribed time and watching it along with millions of other viewers. The Nielsons would never be able to accurately measure my viewing habits. I simply stay too busy for “appointment” television. I do realize that,…

Dust to Dust

Dussssssst in the wind…all we are is dust in the wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind… We not infrequently talk about pre-humans here on this site. The discerning fan will not need the connection betwixt troglodytes and lycanthropy to be clarified. Our hairier, more bestial ancestors are still, despite the advances of Science, such a collective enigma to us. Why…