Month: February 2018

With great power must come great responsibility. I’ve read enough Spider-Man comic books in my time to have had that message ingrained into my moral compass. I realize the full gravity of the power I wield–I have a forum, here, on this and on our sister sites vampires.com and darkness.com. I have a voice. A…

Last night I selected a new book from the stack, the huge, twisty stack, twisty like the church steeple that was twisted by the Devil in Chesterfield, curvy as the beanstalk in the fairytale and, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, surprisingly sturdy. (In other words, I got a shit-ton of books all stacked up,…

I do consider myself an expert on werewolves, yes. And vampires. And the paranormal in general. No, I don’t have a degree in folklore, in comparative religion, or in cultural anthropology. But I do read a lot. A LOT. And it is my job to be well educated on the subject(s). But let’s keep that…

If you look at the name of the city–it has the word PORT in it–it makes sense that Portland, Oregon would be infamous as the capital of shanghaiing. To be shanghaied meant to be kidnapped and sold as a virtual slave to some ship’s captain. You’d drink something that some creep had spiked with some…

People who keep up with the latest in Cryptozoology will be familiar with the name Justin Smeja. Smeja is this podunk who claims to have murdered two Bigfoots (there is no other word for it) and then taken a DNA sample from one or both of the bodies (Or was it TWO DNA samples? As…

January 27th marked the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of the character Tarzan on the big screen. TARZAN OF THE APES was a silent film starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan and Enid Markey as Jane. It is by far the most faithful film adaptation of the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and remained largely…

I’ve been so busy celebrating the success of the Horror movie in this year’s Academy Awards nominations–with THE SHAPE OF WATER landing a ton of nominations and GET OUT doing just fine for itself, too–that I overlooked the biggest screwjob of the year, the most egregious, and the most unjust. James McAvoy didn’t get nominated…

This one pertains to my neck of the woods, but hopefully our international readers, as well as those of you from other regions of the good ol’ US of A, will enjoy this one as a bit of “local color.” Also, if you have ever traveled to the beach by way of Interstate 65 south…

I’d been looking forward to this one. I’d wanted to go see it when it came out in theaters, but it was a busy time for me and the movie came and went fairly quickly. Honestly, after seeing it last night, I’m glad I didn’t get the chance. It isn’t that the movie is bad.…

The Flatwoods Monster doesn’t quite qualify as a cryptid, by my definition. It would more accurately be designated an alien. (Or an owl and a case of mass hysteria, but I prefer to believe it was an alien.) The Bray Road Beast of Wisconsin, however, is a straight-up werewolf. Both creatures are set to get…