Month: March 2018

To be published in May by Miami Fox Publishing, which is located not in Miami but in Great Britain, ironically enough, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE HOWLING is written by Bryn Curt James Hammon and will feature an introduction by Philippe Mora, who directed HOWLING 2 and HOWLING 3. (This introduction should be about ten…

I don’t drink beer, but who’s gonna drink these official TWIN PEAKS brand beers anyway? They’re collector’s items. Also, the beer might or might not be any good. I wouldn’t know as, as I just said, I don’t drink beer (I don’t drink alcohol, period, except for small amounts–I’m diabetic–but if I did, I’d prefer…

This is from the New York Post, so take that for what it’s worth, but the headline grabbed my attention. I’m fascinated by abnormal psychology. The fact that you can have a human being who looks perfectly normal, acts perfectly normal (in public), yet is capable of the most incredible depravities, violence, and cruelty, because…

This pisses me off. The Sumatran Tiger is a beautiful, majestic, and severely endangered animal. And now there is one less of them. Idiot villagers in the northern part of the island country killed it because they thought it was a supernatural being, an evil spirit, or an evil sorcerer who had taken on animal…

Glory, hallelujah! FANGORIA is coming back! For all Monsterkidz of a certain age, this will be huge news, a cause for a massive celebration. Before there was such a thing as the Internet, and after FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND had stopped printing new issues, those of us belonging to that specific generation–Gen X, for the…

Just as I started celebrating news this week that FANGORIA would resume publication, I’m hit by this, the announcement that Toys ‘R Us is going out of business. While stores remain open, various news outlets are reporting that the entire chain may close by as early as next week. I doubt this. They’re going to…

Last week I posted this short-short story I’d written for a contest some time back. I submitted a few pieces, as there were different categories in the contest (but only one winner–go figure). There’s one other work from that compilation that qualifies to appear here, under the werewolves banner. It doesn’t feature a werewolf (a…

On a lazy Sunday morning–this morning, in fact–I sat at the computer surfing the Net as my lovely better half was finishing her coffee in the living room, watching a rerun of THE GOLDEN GIRLS. Suddenly she shouted my name, urging me to “Come quick!” Naturally I obliged, having learned the imprudence of ignoring such…

I confess that I don’t watch cartoons much anymore. I still love the stuff from my youth (like SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS), and always will, but I despise, and I do mean DESPISE, the animation you see in such contemporary programs as PHINEAS AND FERB. It makes me want to smash the television screen,…

“Horseshit! Horseshit! Let’s all say horseshit! Say horseshit, Bill!” That’s one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite plays, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts. It came to mind because last night I watched an episode of the Destination America television series MOUNTAIN MONSTERS, in which a band of hirsute, overweight rednecks goes…