Tuesday Afternoon Terrors

Vintage Halloween Cake Toppers (by llulu)

Dread Central's Best & Worst of 2008

The Horror Section's Best & Worst Horror of 2008

io9's Year in Review

Horror's Not Dead's Horror 2008, a Retrospective:

Part 1: January to March
Part 2: April to June
Part 3: July to September

Jeff Allard's Best & Worst Horror Films of 2008

Autopsy Report: Top 10 Horror Previews, Headlines of 2008, The Best & Worst Horror Films of '08

BC's Best Horror Films of 2008!

Vault of Horror's Requiescant in Pace 2008: Part 1, Part 2

And Now the Screaming Starts uncovers Michael Haneke's Caché

13 on Godzilla Vs Monster Zero

The Leech Woman & Attack of the Giant Leeches @ The Uranium Cafe

Holiday Horrors wrap-up @ 13 Visions

Ring 2 @ Black Hole DVD Reviews

Chamber of Horrors & The Brides of Fu Manchu @ DVD Savant

Dead of Winter @ Horror Movie A Day

The Lightning Bug's Lair stops by the Mausoleum

New Year's Evil @ Cult Trailers

The Fanex Files - Hammer Films @ Hammer and Beyond

The Return of Doctor X @ Internet Archive

Giant Crabs, Puppet People and much more @ Random Acts of Geekery

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Grimm's Ghost Stories #20, #19, #18

flickr frights: A Spook Show Anniversary! (by halloween_guy)

Just as I was getting ready to resume normal service I've been beset by a series of technical glitches. Until I get it all sorted here's a pic from one of my favorite Flickr fiends halloween_guy...

Christmas Eve Quickie

Camborne Haunted Woods 12/08 (by spectrefloat)

Kindertrauma remembers The Bumble Snow Monster

Terror is a Man @ 13

El Santo y Blue Demon contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo [1973] @ Love Train...

Christmas in the Stars - if you must @ Black Hole DVD Review

The Lovecraftian Horror of Potterville (and here) @ Chris Perridas

Stacie Ponder @ Horror Hacker: - O Christmas Tree: A Tribute to Triffids, The Ruins Vines, and the Preachy Plants of The Happening

Horror 2008, a Retrospective: Part 1, January to March @ Horror's Not Dead

a PEEK in Santa's PACK! (Jul, 1947) @ Modern Mechanix

Elvira's Christmas Carol @ Monster Memories

SF Signal's MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part 1, 2, 3)

flickr frights: Saucer-Men (by Sheepback.Cabin)

Saucer-Men (by Sheepback.Cabin)

A slow week...

... of posting here, I'm afraid. Christmas stuff is monopolizing my time so there may only be a couple of sporadic updates this week. Once the festive season ends I expect to be up and running again with at least daily posting.

Friday Morning Frights

UnaVíctimaMás//OneMoreVictim (by Matt - Una mirada

diferente... como

Holiday horrors: NutCracker Fantasy @ Kindertrauma & Monster Memories on
"The Abominable Snowman" from "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer."

13 has an appointment with The Mad Doctor of Blood Island

The Dead Eyes of London @ Giallo Fever

The Zombie Diaries @ Horror Movie A Day

The Last Blog on the Left reviews Splinter

Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire on Night of the Howling Beast

Horror Hacker's The Top Ten Horror Movies of 2008 plus A Movie Guide to the Saint Nicks of Horror

Top 10 Most Unforgettable Horror Films of All Time @ Yoshke

Fangface @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Vinnie Rattolle remembers Sigmund & the Sea Monsters

'Fringe' gets into the holiday spirit @ The Watcher

The Airship Destroyer @ Internet Archive

The Airship Destroyer (1909) aka The Battle in the Clouds and The Aerial Torpedo is an early short sci-fi film.

Grantbridge Street shares some Dr. Fate by Martin Pasko and Walt Simonson

The Horror of it All offers Haven of Terror

Theofantastique interviews Eric Nuzum author of The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula

The Goblins and the Gravedigger, by Charles Dickens @ The Classic Tales Podcast

Science Fiction Authors That Lit Geeks Think It's Cool To Read @ io9 plus Singing Supervillains Perform Their Diabolical Numbers

Ghoul Mum & Daughter @ October Effigies

7th Day of Christmas @ Para Abnormal

another quickie

Here's another yule-shortened entry...


13 welcomes the Return of the Fly

Exploitation Retrospect goes to Pieces

Dinner with Max Jenke on the upcoming Halloween 2

Frankensteinia lights up for Kenneth Strickfaden

Stacie Ponder offers "a small tribute to that 80s horror trend where chicks wore sports jerseys as pajamas."

Doc Savage faces "The Inferno Scheme!" @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Grantbridge Street hearts Zatanna

Night of the Snow Vampire @ Groovy Age of Horror

look, some stuff!

Rain Train With Saucer.. (by Sea Moon)

13 takes a look and a listen to The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Anchorwoman in Peril shadows The Stalker

The Last Blog on the Left Lets the Right One In

The Lightning Bug'sLair plugs in The Driller Killer

Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire stops to pick up the Ring of Darkness

New Dunwich Horror flick: First Trailer @ Dread Central

Monster Mondays! @ Random Acts of Geekery plus Son of Frankenstein Slideshow:

Horror Hacker's Horror Power Ranking - December 15, 2008

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari @ Horror Movie A Day

HorrorsNotDead reviews Timecrimes

The Screaming Skulls! @ The Horrors of it All

Squid Riots: Real Life Cthulhu News

The Evil Santas of Science Fiction @ io9

Internet Archive:

In The Year 2889
IN THE YEAR 2889 Starring: PAUL PETERSON AND QUINN O'HARE A group of post A-war survivors gathered together in a valley, are menaced by cannibalistic human mutants with telepathic powers..

The Eye Creatures
The Eye Creatures (also known as Attack of the Eye Creatures, or Attack of the the Eye Creatures from a production error) is a 1965 science-fiction film about an invasion of an unnamed American countryside by a flying saucer and its silent, shambling alien occupants....

The Patchwork Girl of Oz
L Frank Baum's film of his fairy tale "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" Violet MacMillan...Ojo, a Munchkin Boy Frank Moore...Unc Nunkie, Ojo's Guardian Raymond Russell...Dr. Pipt, the Crooked Magician Leontine Dranet...Margolotte, his wife, who makes the Patchwork Girl Bobbie Gould...Jesseva, his daughter,..

Saturday afternoon quickie

The future Widow Ravensdeath has given me 5 minutes to bang out a quick update before I return to adorning the dungeon with the traditional holly, ivy, and sumac so ...

Dread Central's Weekly Wrap-up

Dummy of Death @ 13

Cult Trailers:

• Seven Blood Stained Orchids
• Phenomena aka Creepers
• Satan's Slave
• At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Fangface and more Saturday Morning stuff from 1978 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

The Sucker @ Fortress of Fortitude

The Horrors of it All shares "The Well of Fear!

io9's got "The Power List: 20 Movers And Shakers In Science Fiction"

Hopefull more later...

Foul Weather Outage

I'm sorry to report your daily dose of stale linkage will not appear today as a particularly nasty storm (is that hail I hear machine gunning the roof?) has made my internet connection extra wonky and it would take hours to visit my favorite blogs.

Hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow.

Cheers!

Here come some links!

Last Blog on the Left reviews The Strangers

And Now the Screaming Starts babysits The Brood

PETA and Black Hole DVD Reviews agree - Don't Torture a Duckling!

Every night was Halloween with Zacherley @ Dr Hermes Retro-Scans

Ray Bradbury's Bizarre "Earth Stood Still" Christmas Sequel @ io9

The Vault of Horror's Interview with Victor Miller, Writer of Friday the 13th

Chris Perridas on Lovecraft and Math

Comic Previews at CBR:

• Superman and Batman VS. Vampires and Werewolves #5
• 30 Days of Night: 30 Days ‘til Death #1
• Salem: Queen of Thorns #4
• Fall of Cthulu: Godwar #4
• Army of Darkness #15

The Phantom Stranger takes on a mad cult made of...children! @ The Phantom Stranger Blog

"Who Toys With Terror" @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

The Werewolf of the Alps @ The Horrors of it All

Killer Kittens shares "Blood On Her Lips"

BibliOdyssey showcases an astonishing collection of Day of the Dead Papercuts

Manybooks.net has posted "Border Ghost Stories" by Howard Pease (1919)

Free Horror Podcast: Contagious by Scott Sigler (via Podiobooker)

From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy.

Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.

George Orwell 1984 BBC (1954) @ Internet Archive

Afternoon Quickie

Outside Your Window.. (by Sea Moon)

Quint's Movie of the Day is The Sentinel

Village of the Damned @ 13

Two Dr Jekylls & The Maze @ Black Hole DVD Reviews

Dinner with Max Jenke shovels some Dead Snow

Horror Movie A Day takes a magnifying glass to Phase IV

The Last Blog on the Left reviews The X-Files: I Want to Believe

The Thirsty Dead stop by The Lightning Bug's Lair

Who Cracked Lena Headey's Head? @ io9

Diversions of the Groovy Kind shares Marvel Super Special #2 featuring the Savage Sword of Conan

The Fortress of Fortitude housebreaks "The Human Pet"

Found: The Lair of the Snow Monster @ The Horrors of it All

The Shadow of the Bear @ Radio Drama Revival

At Z0mbie Astronaut Shatner reads Foundation: The Psychohistorians and appears on Zero Hour

Internet Archive has a colorized Night of the Living Dead plus Revolt of the Zombies

Monday Afternoon Stuff

Monster Mondays! @ Random Acts of Geekery

Kindertrauma on The Dark and The Year Without a Santa Claus

War of the Colossal Beast @13

Witchfinder General @ Black Hole DVD Reviews

DVD Savant on I am Legend

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul @ Horror Movie A Day

I Bury the Living @ Internet Archive

Resident Evil 5 Hands-on! @ Dread Central

Horror Hacker's Horror Power Ranking - December 8, 2008

Charlie McCarthy - The Haunted Hideout @ Magic Carpet Burn


Peter Jackson Eulogizes Uncle Forry... @ AICN plus many more remembrances

Forrest J. Ackerman: a week of tribute @ Blogue Macabre

A Sad Day In Horrorwood @ Dinner With Max Jenke

Diversions of the Groovy Kind says "So Long, Uncle Forry!"

Forrest J. Ackerman tribute @ Grantbridge Street

Hairy Green Eyeball presents A day with FJA

John Rozum: R.I.P. Forrest J Ackerman 1916-2008

Goodbye, Uncle Forry: Famous Monsters Speak @ The Drunken Severed Head

Frankensteinia collects a number of FJA Tributes

The Last Blog on the Left: We'll Miss You, Uncle Forry!

Farewell Forry

Farewell Forry

1916 - 2008

In our memories forever...

Friday morning frights

I am the Vampire Kid (by froggyboggler)

Kindertrauma offers up selections for a Snowbound Horror film-fest

The Vulture @ 13

Evil on Two Legs asks the cutting question "Is HATCHET a Slasher Film?"

Ain't it Cool:New Friday the 13th Trailer & The Dead Snow

Stacie Ponder at Final Girl revisits Poltergeist III while Stacie Ponder at Horror Hacker notes The Weather Outside Isn't the Only Thing That's Frightful

While She Was Out @ Anchorwoman in Peril

Zombie (Zombi 2) @ The Daily Grind(House)

Silent Night Deadly Night @ The Lightning Bug's Lair

The Manchester Morgue shares Fatal Games

House Of Dark Shadows @ Monster Memories

The Top Ten Foreign Horror Movies of 2008 Promise an Eye-Popping, Jaw-Locking Good Time @ Horror Hacker

io9 wonders "Can Tim Burton Convert Over 1000 Hours of TV into One "Dark Shadows" Movie? plus Creature From The Black Lagoon Will Be Based On Pure Science

Vulpes Libris looks back at Frankenstein on stage and screen

Christopher Lee's Tales Of Terror, Tales of Mystery and Horror, Fireside Tales and The Exorcist all courtesy of Z0mbie Astronaut

Bozo the Robot@ Fortress of Fortitude

The Wax Men & The Museum @ The Horrors of it All

Skis of Death @ Grantbridge Street

Plop 12 @ negative pleasure

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle @ Librivox

Merry Krampus! from Monster Brains

some stuff

Ryan Brennan reviews the odd old horror-comedy Sh! The Octopus

Hairy Green Eyeballs shares Midnight Tales #3

The Horrors of it All is just One Door from Disaster

Monster Memories shares Dark Shadows Issue #6

Horror Movie A Day reviews 1980's Eyes Of A Stranger

Creepy Christmas Shorts

SFFaudio reviews Already Dead by Charlie Huston

How You'll Get Around in Style After the First Global Superwinter @ io9

Twisted Tuesday

Yardley (by TheoJunior)

Zombie Astronaut shares Roddy McDowall reading Lovecraft's "The Hound" and, David McCallum reading "The Rats In The Walls" & "The Dunwich Horror"

Vinnie Rattolle offers a trio of vintage Texas Chainsaw Massacre articles plus the American Werewolf in Paris pressbook

The Moon is a Dead World reviews 2008's Prom Night

13 does The Dance of Death

Terrifying Tuesday: The Phantom of the Opera (1989) @ the Lightning Bug's Lair

Guillermo Del Toro Dances With Roald Dahl's Witches @ io9

10 Real-Life Ideas More Insane than Almost All Science Fiction @ Topless Robot

Fairy Tales and Scientific Romances @ Voyages Extraordinaires

Lori Devoti interviews Chris Marie Greene, author of the Vampire Babylon series

The Headless Werewolf finds A Possible Source for "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Horrors Not Dead reviews Left4Dead

The Horrors of it All shares "The Vampires Victim"

Visit The 25 Days of Cryptmas at Para Abnormal

Hulu:

The Last Man On Earth
Vincent Price stars as a scientist and last survivor on Earth after a plague turns the rest of the population into vampires.

Monday Morning Quickie

Stairwell, Heidelburg Castle (by ashleystewartnoble)

Kindertrauma wades into "the Dark and Lonely Water"

Anchorwoman in Peril Madvent Calendar: Day #1!

The Mysterians @ 13

The Hand reviewed @ The Lightning Bug's Lair

Jon's Random Acts of Geekery presents another hair-raising installment of Monster Mondays!

Grantbridge Street shares The Pit of Fear

The Horrors of it All offers The Secret of the Walking Dead

Horror Hacker's Horror Vampire Power Ranking

The Eldritch Dark: The Sanctum of Clark Ashton Smith via Quasar Dragon

Sunday Night Frights

Doctor Who Christmas TV mag scans @ SpoilerTV

Grimm's Ghost Stories #15 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

The Daily Grind(house) remembers Microwave Massacre

The Lightning Bug's Realm asks the cinematic question "What Have You Done To Solange?"

The Bonebreaker reviews 13 Hours in a Warehouse

Shadowplay reviews Franco's Conte Dracula

The origins of Van Helsing @ Magia Posthuma

Hairy Green Eyeball looks back at pulp stalwart The Spider

Mort The Dead Teenager @ The Manchester Morgue

Spielberg SciFi Sequels That Never Were (And One That Never Should Have Been) @ SciFi Scanner

What If Disney Remade Horror Flicks? @ Spill via The Horror Section

Horrors Not Dead reviews the Week in Horror

The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33) @ Io9

Saturday afternoon quickie

vampira (by hastingsgraham)

Kindertrauma on Amityville II: The Possession

Top Horror Movies Club on Ravenous

Black Hole DVD reviews Who?

Ryan Brennan at The Monsterverse reviews Dracula, The Dark Prince

Journey to the 7th Planet @ Random Acts of Geekery

Grimm's Ghost Stories #14 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Science Fiction Theater Presents: Farewell to the Master @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Ectoplasmosis reviews Night Of The Cephalopod

Dr. Phibes Rises Again! @ Hulu

This sequel to 'The Abominable Dr. Phibes' finds Vincent Price trying to revive his dead wife. His quest for the necessary elixir takes him to Egypt, to an ancient chamber buried deep in a mountainside, once used by the pharaohs.

Mystery Liner @ Internet Archive

Captain Holling (Noah Beery) is relieved of command of his ship after he suffers a nervous breakdown. His replacement, Captain Downey (Boothe Howard), takes over the liner just as it is about to be used for an experiment in remote control....

Science Fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), an Introduction (io9) plus The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Plus loads of Christmas Links over at Santas Working Overtime

Thanksgiving'een

Sorry to have missed yesterday - the Ravensdeath household has been plagued by an unrelenting stomach bug and all service was disrupted. It'll get quiet again here tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

The Vault of Horror polled the crème de la crème of horror bloggers to come up with a list of the Top 50 Horror Films in response to HMV's earlier, and much discussed. survey on the same topic.

The "Cyber-Horror Elite" Have Spoken: Presenting the Top 50 Horror FIlms of All Time!

I have far fewer disagreements with this list than HMV's - though some of the selections still baffle me:

28. Alucarda (1978) dir: Juan Lopez Moctezuma
38. Thriller (1983) dir: John Landis
39. The Addiction (1995) dir: Abel Ferrara
44. The Mist (2007) dir: Frank Darabont
46. The Living Dead Girl (1982) dir: Jean Rollin
47. The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) dir: Joseph Green

Thriller? Really? And am I the only one who thought The Mist was seriously mediocre?

And while I would re-rank many of the titles up or down the mere fact that I basically agree with 44 of 50 choices is something of a miracle.

A great job done by Vault keeper B-Sol and all the bloggers who participated.

Here's a post with many of the titles that didn't quite make the cut.

Kindertrauma remembers Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster

And Now the Screaming Starts on Videodrome plus the real life horror of Colonia Dignidad

arglebargle presents: Black & White in COLOR #5 : The CREATURE!

Stacie Ponder admits "i love the 80s, even though sometimes they sucked."

Hairy Green Eyeball shares a Lovecraftian tale from the pages of Charlton's Haunted - "Mountain of Fear"

The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps (io9)

and, maybe this...

Sesame Street Soul @ Franklin Mint Blog

more monday morning stuff

It's Monster Monday again at Random Acts of Geekery

Magic Carpet Burn offers a hairy Tale of Voodoo

Monster Memories unearths a 1969 Reader's Digest article on Night of the Living Dead

Always a great selection of e-book and audio (and more) gems at Quasar Dragon.

The Lady is a (Sexy) Witch, 1950

If you haven't seen Young Frankenstein on Broadway yet, your time is running out.

Frankenstein's Womb (WarrenEllis.com)

Everyday Reads reads Charlaine Harris

Netflix Watch Instantly (req. acct.)

Firestarter
Stephen King's spine-tingling tome is the inspiration for this 1980s thriller starring Drew Barrymore as Charlie, an 8-year-old girl with a dubious gift: the ability to ignite fires with just a glance. But her gift quickly proves to be a curse after a mysterious government agency sets out to capture the girl so they can study her -- and then destroy her. Can Charlie and her loving father (David Keith) outrun them long enough to save their lives?

also ...

7 More Superpowers The World Can Do Without (Mental Floss)

WHEN EXTRAS ATTACK (or: when disc 2 is actually better than disc 1…) @ Twitch

More Thanksgiving link goodness at Super Punch

Monday Morning Quickie

Here's a quickie before I get the kids ready for school - more in a little while...


Happy Birthday Forry!!!

Cool -Mo-Dee continues the Grimm goodness with Grimm's Ghost Stories #9

Crosseyed Cyclops shares Mystery Tales 33 & 50

The Dark Sublime offers The Raven illustrated by Gustave Dore

Dread Central reviews the new issue of Rue Morgue plus Twilight Rules the Box Office; Sequel Confirmed

I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans (io9) plus Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo

Saturday Nightmares

War of the Worlds, 1953 (by lights-camera-action)

"Dracula In Pakistan" @ 13 plus The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Mark Hodgson at Black Hole DVD Reviews revisits Ringu on it's 10th anniversary.

Chris Perridas on the Nikola Tesla / Nyarlathotep connection

The Thing Called Killdozer @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson, & David Vorhaus - ESL 104/The Tomorrow People @ Digital Meltd0wn

Invaders From Mars @ Random Acts of Geekery

Frankensteinia: Frankenstein Meets Mickey Mouse

Horror Hacker Twilight Review - To Love It May Depend on Your Gender

Twilight As Musical? Top 6 Vampire Shows On Broadway @ Broadway.tv

Top Twilight Travel Sites @ Traveling Mamas

Holiday craft tips from Para Abnormal

Radio Drama Revival offers the conclusion of "The Dead Girl"

Too many great things on z0mbieastronaut to list. Go Now!

Plus...

ABC Saturday Morning 1975 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Cosmobells shares The Adventures of Hal 5

The Dark Sublime offers a vintage (1894) article on handcuffs from The Strand Magazine

Urkel-Os @ The Sneeze

Morning Stop Look and Listen

menhir (by matt knoth)

Grimm's Ghost Stories #6 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Paul Durango offers 4 vintage sci-fi soundtracks :

• 1955 - Walter Schumann - Exploring The Unknown
• 1957 - Ronald Stein - Invasion Of The Saucer Men
• 1960 - Russ Garcia - The Time Machine
• 1962 - Ron Goodwin - The Day Of The Triffids
  

plus "some great tokusatsu superhero TV series soundtracks !"

The Horrors of it All presents The Monster and the Model

Adventures into Weird Worlds #6 @ Crosseyed Cyclops

Magic Carpet Burn brings us Godzilla Vs. Megalon.

Random Acts of Geekery presents Children's Book Theatre: Superman Big Little Book Chapter 1!

13: Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters

The BBC Tried To Ruin Doctor Who – Before It Even Began (io9)

The Moon is a Dead World reviews Suspiria

Frankenstein Reborn review at Cold Fusion

First Astro Boy teaser debuts (Newsarama)

Why We Love Vampires & Why We Should Hate Them @ whatigotsofar

Comic Previews at Comic Book Resources:

• Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #2
• DemonWars Vol. 2: The Demon Spirit #3
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Vol. 1
• Dead Space HC

and over here we have...

Again with the Comics presents Thanksgiving Turkeys

Film School Rejects: In Response to Spike's 10 Most Overrated Directors List

"...Spike's ill-conceived list - a list that might has well have been called Spike's List of the Ten Directors That Spike Has Heard Of."

Links: From the Earth to the Moon to the Ungroundable

"Queen Of The Pumpkins" (by Dio Bach)

Voyages Extraordinaires takes you From the Earth to the Moon

Coraline trailer (Tor.com)

Killdozer @ Kindertrauma

Sweet Skulls takes a look at the Posters of , and the actual films, "Theatre of Blood" and "The Conqueror Worm"

A Journey to the Sun By Jules Verne, Jr. & The Ghost-Extinguisher By Gelett Burgess @ Mister Ron's Basement Podcast (via SFFaudio)

SF Signal: At The Trailer Park: The Half-Blood Prince, The Spirit, Race to Witch Mountain, 2012

The Lightning Bug's Lair visits The Town that Dreaded Sundown

Vampires Do and Vampires Don't @ Lurv à la Mode

Twilight Could Suck $65 Million From Moviegoers This Weekend (/film)

South Park: The Ungroundable

Butters is sure he's seen a Vampire at school but he can't get anyone to listen to him. Meanwhile, the Goth Kids are angry and frustrated when the other kids can't tell the difference between a Goth and a Vampire.

Zombie Movies and Scary commercials @ Gods of Advertising

UFOs and Science Fiction @ Futurismic

Heed retrospace's dire warning "Robots Are Making Love to Our Women"!

Thanksgiving @ Para Abnormal

The Horrors of it All shares the creepy romance of Lover, Come Back to Me

SUPERNATURAL HORROR, Pt. 6: Imagination, Feeling, and Belief @ The Groovy Age of Horror

Grab Grimm's Ghost Stories #5 over at Cool-Mo-Dee's place

DVD Talk Reviews:

• Vampire Princess
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe
• The Zombie Diaries

not only, but also...

The 10 Most Heinous Mario Kart Rip-Offs @ Topless Robot

When The Future Was Only a Few Years Away @ Those Fab. Fifties

Afternoon kwikee

Vintage Halloween Storybook 1958 (by llulu)

At Horror Hacker Stacie Ponder asks What Ever Happened to Hag Horror?

And Now the Screaming Starts on Dan Simmon's new novel Drood.

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Grimm's Ghost Stories #3

Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Rider Without a Head at Branded in the 80's.

Check out Monster Artist Mike Hill at CHFB

Dread Central reports Universal Remaking The Host. The host is easily one of my favorite horror flicks from the last few years and I can't wait to be disappointed by Hollywood's version.

Monster Memories has a 1971 Newsweek "Night of the Living Dead" article

Triumph of the Tube: A History of Horror TV, Part 5 @ The Vault of Horror

Over at Mental Floss Lunchtime Quiz: Good Actresses in Bad Horror Movies

and also...

Franklin Mint Blog shares Wonderland Records: Themes From "Star Trek" & "The Planet Of The Apes" (1975) & Wonderland Records: T.V. Themes (1976)

Tonight's Frights

alley By Yellow-Lime

Check out your new home for Godzilla collectible happiness - Go Go Godzilla! From Jon K., the evil genius who brings us Random Acts of Geekery and the Give-A-Show Blog!

I was a Teenage Werewolf @ 13

Check out the trailer for The Race to Witch Mountain ...yes, that Witch Mountain! (AICN)

And Now the Screaming Starts hearts (Lamberto) Bava's "Macabre"

Final Girl takes on The Antichrist

Make Mine Monsters Unleashed!! @ Seduction of the Indifferent

Fortress of Fortitude offers Satan And The Devil-Bull

Grimm's Ghost Stories #2 now at Cool-Mo-Dee

The Phantom Stranger on 1971' s The Phantom Stranger 14

Warlock becomes a comic book (Horror Hackers)

Jingle Belle Fights Frankenstein (Comic Mix)

Ancient Vampire Killing Kit Sells For 15K (io9)

Blood-Stained Violet Embroidered White Victorian Night Dress from J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Camilla @ Liana's Paper Doll Blog

DVD Talk Reviews:

• Phase IV
• Bikini Bloodbath Carwash
• Friday The 13th - The Series: The First Season

Other goodness...

Diversions of the Groovy Kind presents Cheap Detectives Week. So far...

• Atlas/Seaboard's Police Action
• Tim Trench and Jason Bard--the Back-Up Men
• The Inspector

Monday Afternoon Stuff

heart on hand (by annette62)

If it's Monday and there are monsters it can mean only one thing... It's Monster Monday at Jon's Random Acts of Geekery

I Dream of Zombie: Zombo's Closet reveals Personal Nightmares and Darker Landscapes

Check out the indie Cannibal homage Isle of the Damned at Horror Yearbook.

13 returns with Rodan!

Too Scared to Scream @ Anchorwoman in Peril

The Shuttered Room @ Black Hole DVD Reviews

Dave Sindelar reviews Satanis: The Devil's Mass (1970)

The Midnight Meat Train reviewed at Killer Kittens From Beyond the Grave

The Last Blog on the Left on The Mother of Tears

Author Brian Lumley Answers Your Questions (Joseph Mallozzi)

30 Days of Vampires w/ Lori Devoti

"This is the official schedule for the 30 Days of Vampires. The event is in honor of my first published vampire tale, The Vampire Who Stole Christmas in the Holiday With A Vampire II anthology for Silhouette Nocturne. For the next thirty days I will have prizes, interviews, excerpts and essays all on vampires."

From beyond the grave, Hammer speaks to us still (The Independent) (via FrozenGhost)

Lovecraft Meets Kolchak (Chris Perridas)

Grimm's Ghost Stories #1 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

The Eye Sees @ Fortress of Fortitude

Arkham Tales #1 (via the B-Masters Cabal)

"Presenting Issue #1 of Arkham Tales! 100 pages of the best weird fiction on the market right now, and all free for your reading pleasure!

This issue bears cover artwork by Ivan Green, and contains fiction by Mike W. Barr, Scott Bastedo, Steve Calvert, Robert Masterson, Benjamin W. Olson, Derek Rutherford, Jenny Schwartz, and Jeffery Scott Sims."