Wolf’s Dark Christmas Goodbye

Wolf’s Museum of Mystery, one of my favorite places on the planet (where I’ve gotten to spend far too little time) is saying goodbye to sunny Saint Augustine, Florida after 5½ years. The “official” goodbye took place on December 22nd at their “Dark Christmas” celebration (of course they had a showing of KRAMPUS) and sale,…

THERIOPHOBIA: FEAR THE BEAST Part Thirty

TWO HOURS AGO: FULL MOON If anything, more people than usual were turning out for this year’s Miner Days. The crowds, already a milling, shifting mass of men, women, and children, glutted the streets, talking, laughing, sweating, shopping and looking, seeing and being seen. Acquaintances made and renewed. Music played from somewhere down near the…

Movie Review: AQUAMAN

No, we haven’t transitioned to a comic book-slash-general pop culture site; we still focus on lupine-related Horror and folklore. There’s a lot for the Horror and monster movie fan to love about AQUAMAN, though. Those humanoid, Lovecraftian fish creatures from down in the Trench are some nasty customers. There’s even a kaiju or two on…

The Wolfman vs. Godzilla

Well, this is just silly. “10 Movie Monsters That Could Defeat Godzilla (And 10 That Don’t Stand a Chance)” But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun with it, being silly too. It also doesn’t mean that I won’t take issue with a few of the article’s silly pronouncements. First we will begin…

A Visit With Krampus

For the second year I traveled to Nashville Tennessee to visit the “Nashville Nightmare” haunted attraction as it put on its two-day-only special Krampus-themed event, entitled this year “Chapter Two: Jack Frost.” (I like how they’re treating it like a movie or a book.) Just as was the case last year, I had a grand…

Retconning the Recitation

“Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright.” Everybody knows that old chestnut. It first appeared in the 17th Century in a treatise on witchcraft written by a clergyman named Wilhem Krauher. It has…

Happy Anniversary, Wolfman!

This past week saw a momentous anniversary. We would be remiss not to acknowledge it, even if a tad tardily. On December 12, 1941, Universal Studios, which had firmly established itself as the studio synonymous with Horror with the successes of its DRACULA, MUMMY, and FRANKENSTEIN franchises, unleashed THE WOLFMAN upon the world. (At that…