Month: June 2019

The new SWAMP THING series airing on DC’s new streaming service got cancelled almost before the first episode released. Considering the debut episode got positive reactions from fans and from critics, it wasn’t due to a failure in quality that the brass at Warner Brothers made this decision. Why, then? There are rumors that it…

First off, let me issue an advisory before any of you click on this link. It contains a photograph of a dead dog that some of you might find disturbing. The dog is the reputed victim of a wolf attack, as are two goats and two llamas. I’m going to quote directly from the linked…

Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report concerning a DNA test they had done on a supposed sample of Bigfoot hair and skin. They didn’t do it voluntarily. It came as the result of a request made using the Freedom of Information Act, which requires government agencies to release to the public…

Not really Hawkins, Indiana, but my local Baskin-Robbins, which was supposed to have been turned into a makeshift Hawkins in anticipation of the upcoming third season of STRANGER THINGS. I was disappointed, as the decorations were miniscule. Perhaps because my local Baskin-Robbins shares space with Dunkin’ Donuts—the two are owned by the same parent company—they…

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while we get a complaint. Somebody who wants more werewolves, typically, and perhaps as one would expect, as the site is called werewolves.com. Why then do I write about, say, STRANGER THINGS when there isn’t a werewolf per se in the series? (There’s a Demogorgon, but…

The air filled with the smell of coal dust. Things that lived long ago, animals and plants, transformed over the eons into dead black rock. The Beast paused, catching its breath. Saliva dribbled from its mouth and over Chaney Kidde, mingling with her blood to puddle at its feet. Its sides heaved, its nostrils quivering.…

Horror is doing just fine at the box office these days. BRIGHTBURN, which is great, has made 24 million thus far. That might not sound like a lot, relatively speaking, but considering it only cost five million to make, that’s a big profit. We might get a sequel. And while I have not seen MA,…

Is it simply that primitive peoples saw wild canines prowling around burial sites, and that’s why those animals came to be associated with death, the afterlife, and the underworld? Think of Anubis, the Egyptian god with the head of a jackal. Think of Cerberus with his three heads standing guard at the gates of Hades…

There’s a snazzy new museum set to open in a few weeks not too far from my area of residence. It looks most impressive, but they’re billing it as a museum of natural history, and it isn’t. It’s a privately owned facility, and the owners are staunch Creationists. While I’ve met them and they are…

I’ve been trying to track down the official Steve working at Scoops Ahoy Funko figure, on sale exclusively at participating Baskin-Robbins ice cream shops. I was told by the pleasant young man at my nearest one that the figures sold out as soon as they were unloaded from the truck. He took my number and…