Mar 012010
Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer is All Kinds of Awesome

I still remember the nostalgic days when the written word needed no Youtube trailer in order to sell it. Ah, back in the 20th Century people actually read for readings sake and . . . Never mind. I won’t go trolling by getting preachy. Either way, if you liked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from [...]

Dec 082009
Creature Creation with Mike Melillo: Special Effects Secrets for the Halloween Enthusiast

Years ago at the very first Horrorfind Weekend in Baltimore – when I was just getting into Halloween and haunting houses – I got to sit in on a seminar by Leonard Pickel, editor of Haunted Attraction Magazine. After the seminar we got to talking, and I asked him what good how-to books he’d suggest [...]

Nov 092009
A Halloween How-To by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

One of the best things about the Internet is that everyone can have a voice and there’s no one telling them what they can and cannot say; one of the worst things about the Internet is that monkeys like me are doing it and we have no editors or fact checkers. Yes, the last time [...]

Oct 142009
Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

I’m only about half finished with this delightful book, but I wanted to get something up about it. Last Saturday night while I was at Castle Blood, I got a chance to spend the evening freezing my butt off next to Lesley Bannatyne. She was freezing hers off too while she signed copies of her [...]

Sep 242009
Zombies - I Want Some!

So why on Earth have I posted this rather odd looking zombie paring of the Zombie Influx CD, which I just posted about the other day, and the book “Unabridged, Unabashed, and Undead” by Eric S. Brown, which while it could use the hand of an editor, is still a great, fun read – I [...]

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