Month: December 2019

The rain that had fallen all afternoon had diminished to a fine drizzle by nightfall, but it had left standing water in the parking lot; the lights from the truck stop—OPEN 24 HOURS, DINER, and a half-dozen blinking beer signs—shimmered against the black asphalt, the colors all bleeding together. Saint didn’t see the car at…

Maka’kahu attacked. He, it, struck one of the trees as it passed, tearing loose a strand of blinking lights. It leapt into the air. Saint got off a shot but missed by a country mile. Maka’kahu hit him. Saint forced the breath out of his lungs as he went down, otherwise the impact when he…

I could make this a weekly thing, actually. If I really wanted to, I could make it a daily thing. There is an abundance of stupidity in the world today, that’s for dang sure, and the Internet helps to find it. The Internet, truth be told, helps to foster it. It makes it easier for…

A friend brought this to my attention. It’s a “[s]et of 50 illustrations for a modern-day illustrated bestiary with the America’s most celebrated mythical beasts, commissioned by NeoMam Studios. All illustrations were inspired by the The Aberdeen Bestiary and were created in Affinity Designer for iPad Pro, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop with Wacom Cintiq.…

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT. I like it. It’s snazzy. Maybe a tad long for a mainstream studio picture, but evocative. And fitting, considering the movie’s subject matter. According to the official synopsis: “THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT reveals a chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even…

I saw that it was described as a “creature feature.” That was all it took to snag my attention. That’s all it ever takes. What *kind* of creature feature is ASHBURN WATERS, though? Here is the official spiel: “When his friends are murdered one by one at Ashburn Waters Campgrounds by an unseen killer, Brett…

“Do you see there,” Songbird said, “where the upper branches of the trees reach across to each other, intertwining over the path, yet the trunks of the trees below are limbless and the path itself is free of undergrowth? Does it not have the appearance of a tunnel? If you follow this pathway, it will…

It surprised Joe Clark, the ease with which he had accepted the impossible as reality. Sasquatch did exist. Including one that could talk (and liked to talk) and sing, too, in a beautiful lilting tenor. Parallel universes existed, and there were portals into and out of them. A man who had been dead could come…

Look, I can’t speak for all of them. That should be obvious. But I think it is accurate to describe them in a general way. The people who belong to the Satanic Temple don’t really believe in Satan. They’re atheists. They don’t really want to see Satan praised or worshipped. They have, rather, adopted the…

Tonight, for the third consecutive year (fourth if you count the original theatrical release of the film), my wife and I celebrated one of our newly-minted annual Christmas traditions: we watched Michael Dougherty’s KRAMPUS. With Krampusnacht (Krampus Night) only a couple of days away (as I am writing this) it seemed proper timing. This movie…