We are closer to the November that just passed than we are to the one that is ahead of us, but the NOVEMBER I await most eagerly is the thusly-entitled new werewolf movie from Director Rainer Sarnet. Regarding the feature: “NOVEMBER is based on Estonian novel “Rehepapp” by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last…
Month: February 2018
What became of the Tainos? Columbus Ate Them!
The Tainos were the original, indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean islands, not to be confused with Thanos, the big, purple, death-worshipping bad guy from Marvel Comics and the upcoming AVENGERS movie. Also, the Tainos were not the Caribs; although there is frequent confabulation of the two peoples (I’ve been guilty of it) they were not…
There’s STILL Something In The Woods
I wrote a review of the book series SOMETHING IN THE WOODS IS TAKING PEOPLE a few months back. It’s a fascinating if not particularly well written account of many of the mysterious, sometimes frankly inexplicable, disappearances of people from the woods, oftentimes in public parks. Those sorts of disappearances continue to occur, and I…
The Luminescent Werewolf
This article is not referring to a werewolf action figure that will glow in the dark after exposure to light. Not that such figures aren’t cool. Glow-in-the-dark toys are an extra special kind of magical. I don’t think I own any glow-in-the-dark werewolf figures, although I do seem to recall that they exist. I do…
Movie Review (Sorta): BLACK PANTHER
Let’s do the review thing first, okay? Here it is: The movie is great. There. That concludes the review. You all don’t need me to tell you how amazing the film is; you probably already know. BLACK PANTHER has changed the rules, period. It made way more money than it was expected to make, and…
Pigzilla
That is one damn big pig. And a scary-looking one. Maybe it’s because of my background, growing up not on a farm but surrounded by them, with relatives who owned farms–and hogs–that I find pigs scary. A lot of people don’t realize just how big these critters can get and how potentially dangerous they are.…
Meet Cheddar Man
First off, couldn’t they have come up with a better name for the guy than “Cheddar Man“? I know he’s named after the location where his bones were discovered and not after a hank of cheese, but seriously, people. He was the very first Briton. (The first MODERN Brit, anyway.) He deserves a cool-sounding name.…
A Werewolf Plague in LES AFFAMES?
Just last week I was ruminating over which monster would win in a fight, a werewolf or a zombie. (It was last week, right? Or was it week before last? I can’t remember.) The werewolf came out as the clear victor, any way you sliced it. This week there is news of a new movie…
The Devil Did Her In
Well, this is interesting. There is a grave in a cemetery in Salt Lake City. Buried therein a woman named Lilly E. Gray. She was born in 1881 and died in 1958. That would make her, let’s see, 77 years old at the time of her passing from this vale of tears. Or, if we…
Book Review: THE RIDGE by Michael Koryta
Stephen King loved this book. I loved it too. Yes, I was just complaining in a separate post about how many books I have to read, the huge stack waiting to be read, books that people have sent to me to review here or on one of our sister sites. But I chanced upon THE…