Month: December 2018

Chaney found the house without much effort, matching up the faux-brass letters mounted just to the right and above the front door with the address from the phone book. Shiny peel-and-stick letters on the mailbox at the curb confirmed it. The street terminated in a wide circle before Hank Frye’s house, a two-level white house…

Rebecca Brewster could smell the stench before she even got out of the car, before she climbed the front porch or opened the front door. Savannah in her carry-cradle began to cry. She could smell it, too. It made Rebecca’s eyes water and throat burn. She unlocked the door and let herself in. The stench…

This was the episode I’d been waiting on since I first learned that there was going to be a TV show entitled MYTHICAL BEASTS. If there was any one mythic monster the new Science Channel series would have to cover, de rigueur, it was the werewolf. Did the show live up to its hype for…

Remember TRIALS OF LIFE, the series of videotapes you could order through the mail showcasing nature in its raw, unedited, and most horrific forms? I remember the commercials showing a pack of wolves munching on the carcass of a deer or moose or some such animal, and a killer whale swinging around some poor seal…

“Suzie, Do You Copy?” “The Mall Rats” “The Case of the Missing Lifeguard” “The Sauna Test” “The Source” “The Birthday” “The Bite” “The Battle of Starcourt” These are the titles of the individual episodes of STRANGER THINGS comprising the much-anticipated (that’s an understatement) third season of the hit (that’s another understatement) series, due out sometime…

Gonna do my part to serve as a travel magazine with this one, recommending to you, those of you who are stupid enough–I mean brave enough–to go there, the Goubbet Al-Kharab, the “Island of the Devil.” First you’ll need to travel to Djibouti. (Hint: It’s in Africa, up in the northern part of the Horn.…

Just as Santa Claus takes on different forms, even different names, depending on the culture, so too does Krampus. Sometimes Krampus isn’t Krampus at all. The role of Santa’s sidekick, in charge of disciplining naughty children, falls to an alternate character with Krampus-like characteristics. Black Pete, or “Zwarte Piet” as he is called in the…

John Carpenter’s THE THING is the perfect wintertime movie. The snow, the ice, the feeling if isolation it imparts. Conversely, it is the perfect summertime movie as well. The snow, the ice, ideal for when you’re trying to stay cool by thinking cool. But as it is the former season we are soon to welcome–my…

There were a few surprises when they released the list of nominees for the Golden Globe awards, which will air in January 2019. For the most part, though, it was business as usual, the same kind of tired business that makes awards shows to a large extent irrelevant. They couldn’t quite ignore BLACK PANTHER, though…

For a True Crime junkie like me, it was common knowledge that John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 young men and buried their bodies in the crawlspace under his house. But even I didn’t know that the remains of eight of those victims had never been identified. Never, until now. The development of technology, the ability…