Here’s this week’s addition to the Vernal Equinox Contest. Remember now, every Monday something new gets added to the total. This week’s prize was graciously donated by haunter and creature creator extraordinaire Mike Melillo. The details on this E-book can be found on Mike Melillo’s Black Light Fright website. For a full review of this great e-book click here.

Here’s the way this works. Every week on Monday – cuz Mondays suck – I’m going to add a prize to the pack. The first prize was added February 1st – and each successive Monday through and including March 15th something new gets added. That’s 7 prizes in all. Then on Saturday March 20th – the Vernal Equinox (that’s the Spring Equinox people) I will pick one winner to take it all. Below are the rules and how to enter so get cracking – you can enter every day again, and this week’s prize is below that. w00t!

**Contest runs February 1st, 2010 through March 20th, 2010 midnight EST! One person takes all the prizes. A new prize will be added every Monday and all will appear at the bottom of this post as they are added.

**I will draw a winner using Random.org at midnight EST on the Vernal Equinox – March 20th, 2010. All entries must be to me by then.

**You can enter up to once a day by emailing me at RavensBarrow@verizon.net. Yep, once a damn day people with the subject heading “Vernal Equinox Entry” and include your name and address only. I think the telephone number thing scares some folks – especially the ones I stalk and make prank calls to – so we’re skipping it this time. I’ll get it from the winner since the shippers like to have it. Do not enter more than once a day using this method. If you fail to follow these instructions to the letter I am not going to let you know your entry is void like I have in the past so please include all the information.

**You must be eighteen to enter and a resident of the continental United States or Canada. Canadians will have to pay all duties and taxes themselves, but I will pay the shipping.

**Now here’s the kicker. Facebook has been a bit weird about sending out the updates from the Raven’s Barrow Fan Page. Sometimes it took two days for them to do it – why, I can’t tell you. However, if you become a fan – click this link to fan us – I will post a way to get an extra entry on the fan page wall right after I post the latest addition to the prize package that, if you get to it in time, you can use to get an extra entry in the contest each day for that week until the next Monday. Basically it will be a particular subject heading to use for an additional email. Make sense? Check out the fan page and you will see what I mean. It will only be good for 7 days and can only be used once a day.

Now get emailing people!

Love and tentacles

There is a place in the Pacific Ocean – the farthest place from land on all sides. In the depths of this pole of inaccessibility a sunken city sleeps. And in that city of R’lyeh, far below the waves and the sunlight and the happiness, dreams the Great Cthulhu. And what does the Great Malignant One dream about? Companionship. See, Cthulhu is in love with love. And the Great One exudes a scent to attract lovers. Three sailors went mad making sure this scent was bottled and shipped to our warehouses. We think it was well worth it, though, because now we can offer you Cthulhu in Love Perfume.

So have things been a little slow around here or what?

Maybe if you posted something they wouldn’t be!

STFU troll! Now as I was saying – the troll may be right or that might just be the voices in my head talking – I’ve been a little preoccupied with turning my haunt back into a house ’cause I’m living in it. With that in mind I’ve noticed I have way too many things – some nice folks keep giving me stuff too – so now I’m gonna give some of it to you. Since today, February 1st, is Imbolc to my pagan friends that sounds like excuse enough to start a new contest. I coulda picked Candlemas I suppose or pull the rat outa his hole day on the 2nd, but I didn’t. Actually I kinda like the whole Groundhog Day idea what with Punxsutawney, PA only an hour away from me and the idea of a giant rat getting yanked outa his hole and paraded in front of a bunch of cheering drunks who think he can predict the weather sounds like such great fun, but lighting candles for Jesus, not that there’s anything wrong with that, doesn’t seem to go with the theme around this place.

Now what was I saying? Oh yeah, contest. We’re going to do one of those let-it-ride contests again. Every week on Monday – cuz Mondays suck – I’m going to add a prize to the pack. I will do this starting today – February 1st – and each successive Monday through and including March 15th. That’s 7 prizes in all. Then on Saturday March 20th – the Vernal Equinox (that’s the Spring Equinox people) I will pick one winner to take it all. Below are the rules and how to enter so get cracking – you can enter every day again, and this week’s prize is below that. w00t!

**Contest runs February 1st, 2010 through March 20th, 2010 midnight EST! One person takes all the prizes. A new prize will be added every Monday and all will appear at the bottom of this post as they are added.

**I will draw a winner using Random.org at midnight EST on the Vernal Equinox – March 20th, 2010. All entries must be to me by then.

**You can enter up to once a day by emailing me at RavensBarrow@verizon.net. Yep, once a damn day people with the subject heading “Vernal Equinox Entry” and include your name and address only. I think the telephone number thing scares some folks – especially the ones I stalk and make prank calls to – so we’re skipping it this time. I’ll get it from the winner since the shippers like to have it. Do not enter more than once a day using this method. If you fail to follow these instructions to the letter I am not going to let you know your entry is void like I have in the past so please include all the information.

**You must be eighteen to enter and a resident of the continental United States or Canada. Canadians will have to pay all duties and taxes themselves, but I will pay the shipping.

**Now here’s the kicker. Facebook has been a bit weird about sending out the updates from the Raven’s Barrow Fan Page. Sometimes it took two days for them to do it – why, I can’t tell you. However, if you become a fan – click this link to fan us – I will post a way to get an extra entry on the fan page wall right after I post the latest addition to the prize package that, if you get to it in time, you can use to get an extra entry in the contest each day for that week until the next Monday. Basically it will be a particular subject heading to use for an additional email. Make sense? Check out the fan page and you will see what I mean. It will only be good for 7 days and can only be used once a day.

Now get emailing people!

Here’s what Spielberg told the Los Angeles Times about Rubinstein’s role:

“I thought it would be neat to show that someone’s size had nothing to do with her psychic powers. … Good things can come in small packages, and that’s certainly true of Zelda.”

The 76-year-old actress died at Barlow Respiratory Hospital after a series of health problems, Variety reported:

Rubenstein also appeared in “Frances,” “Sixteen Candles,” “Teen Witch” and “Southland Tales,” and was a regular on the TV series “Picket Fences.”

The role in Tobe Hooper’s 1982 hit “Poltergeist” was written specifically for her, according to co-writer.

Below is the Youtube video of her first grand entrance. If you can’t see it then click Go Into The Light to view it.