Afternoon Quickie

Film...

Sam Raimi on how he got back to his horror roots in Drag Me to Hell @ SCI FI Wire

AICN: Mr. Beaks Gets To The Heart Of TELL-TALE With Director Michael Cuesta!

Autopsy (2008) @ TFAV

Forbidden Planet @ Starlog


Watch...

It Was A Dark And Silly Night @ Neil Gaiman


Listen...

Cave Of Night (X Minus 1) @ Relic Radio Sci-Fi


Books...

The Mad Mentalists of Pre-Golden-Age SF @ io9

MEND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel @ SF Signal

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies @ phillyist

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays and the Most adorable Edgar Allan Poe ever! @ The Haunted Closet

Interview with Mario Acevedo, author of Jailbait Zombie @ tor.com


Comics...

Popeye The Sailor #70 - "Interplanetary Weapon" Pt. One @ Magic Carpet Burn


Pulp...

To Be Continued, pt. 1: Storypapers @ Lovecraft is Missing

Mysterious Traveler and The Player @ Relic Radio

Evening Update (46, or so, links!)

Film...

First Look at Hammer Films' Wake Wood @ ShockTillYouDrop

Monsters Vs Aliens (3D) @ Avalard's Cultural Crisis

Black Freighter & Under the Hood @ Topless Robot

I Sell the Dead @ CHUD

Brain Dead, Monsters From the Id @ Variety

The Hills Have Eyes 2 @ And Now the Screaming Starts

Return from Witch Mountain Special Edition, Friday the 13th - The Series: The Second Season
@ DVD Talk

Haunted @ mermaid heather

Arch Oboler's Five (1951) @ Arbogast on Film

Eyes without a Face (1959) - 50th Anniversary Retrospective @ Cinefantastique

Cat's Eye @ Horror Movie a Day

Dead Ringers @ Only the Cinema

Baxter @ The Deadly Doll's House...

Frankenstein Gets Knocked-Off @ Frankensteinia

Three Fantastic Supermen (1967), Avenger X (1967) @ Permission To Kill

Bad Titles Cramped Their Cults @ Acidemic- Film

Worst Case Scenario is Dead @ Horror-Movies.ca


TV...

The 10 Best MST3K Episodes Not Yet Available on DVD @ Topless Robot

New Scooby Doo coming from Cartoon Network...

• Scooby-Doo - Mystery, Inc.: A sleepy little village, Crystal Cove, boasts a long history of ghost sightings, poltergeists, demon possession, phantoms and other paranormal occurrences. The renowned sleuthing team of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo arrive to prove all of this simply isn't real - but they don't realize the locals don't welcome their help. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation

• Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins: Discover the never-before-told story of how a mismatched quartet of teenagers first came together before becoming known as the Mystery Inc. gang. Freddy (Robbie Amell), the school athlete; Velma (Hayley Kiyoko), the science fair-winning brainiac; Daphne (Kate Melton), the drama beauty; Shaggy (Nick Palatas), the misfit; and Shaggy's newly adopted dog, Scooby Doo, are forced to band together to clear their names. Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins, a Cartoon Network co-production with Warner Premiere and directed by Brian Levant (Snow Dogs, The Flintstones), is slated to premiere in fall 2009.

Full press release for CN's new programming slate @ The Futon Critic

'Harper's Island' Mania, Take Two: Meet the Islanders @ Slasher Speak


Watch...

Where the Wild Things Are trailer @ Dread Central

Sleep Dealer trailer @ Film Junk

New FEAR Wednesday! Watch Days of Darkness, Nightwing, Carnival of Souls, Haunted Highway, Dead End, Seven Days to Live, Aberration, Zombie Honeymoon, Infection, Resurrection Mary and more

Knight Rider Classic @ Hulu


Listen...

The Takeover (Mur Lafferty) @ Podiobooks


Books...

This Is Not A Game (Walter Jon Williams) @ Bookgeeks, Sci Fi Wire, Fantasy Book Critic

"Vlad: The Last Confession" (C.C. Humphreys) @ Fantasy Book Critic

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate (Drew Goddard,Georges Jeanty,Joss Whedon) @ everyday reads

The Steel Remains: An Interview with Richard K. Morgan @ Omnivoracious

The Space Vampires (Colin Wilson) @ Taliesin Meets the Vampires

Sci Fi Book Cover Design: Emma J Wallace for Orion's The Future Classic @ FaceOut Books


Comics...

Buck Rogers' New Future Is Retro Beautiful @ io9

Horror Tales 11/70 - Web of the Widow, Green Horror @ Magic Carpet Burn


Mystery, Intrigue...

'Quantum of Solace' On Blu-ray/DVD - What The Critics Said @ CommanderBond.net

Quantum of Solace, To Catch a Thief - The Centennial Collection @ DVD Talk

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Ian Fleming) @ CommanderBond.net

1965: the apex of the 007-Ford Motor relationship @ The HMSS Weblog

The Fugitive Pigeon (Donald E. Westlake) @ Rough Edges

The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York (Joel Rose) @ Fyrefly's Book Blog

Limited Time Free Kindle Editions: Persuader (Lee Child), Still Waters (Sophie Green Mysteries, No. 4 - Kate Johnson)

Free Ebook: The Yellow Claw (Sax Rohmer) @ feedbooks

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs OST @ The Manchester Morgue

Evening Update

Don't forget to vote for your faves in The Rondos!


Movies...


The Haunting in Connecticut @ Cinematical

Vinyan & In Search of Lovecraft @ Fangoria

Gumnam Qatil @ Teleport City

Hell Girl: The Complete First Season @ DVD Talk

The Incredible Petrified World (1957) @ Atomic Monsters

Rick's Weekend Film Festival Celebrates Young Vampires @ Rick's Flick Picks

Funhouse Remake on the Way @ Dread Central

Mary Quant: Swinging London Icon, Horror Superheroine! @ The Groovy Age of Horror

What's Wrong With A Hunger Games Movie? @ io9

Star Wars Star Prowse Battling Cancer @ The Underwire


TV...

Harpers Globe Episode 1 (Harper's Island)


Watch...

Dead Sucks & The Dead Matter trailers @ Suburban Vampire

Quantum Leap @ Hulu

The Descent, Waxwork, Restraint, Trapped Ashes and more free movies @ FEARnet


Comics...

Nick Lyons on Bluewater's Vincent Price Presents @ Newsarama

Post-Apocalyptic Comics: The Walking Dead @ tor.com


Books...

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature @ SF Signal

Shortlist is out for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2009 @ SF Crowsnest


Mystery...

Laurie R. King Guest Blogs @ Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books

Macmillan reveals adventures of young Sherlock Holmes @ The Guardian

DailyLit's Big Read 2: 3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (Edgar Allan Poe) @ Manybooks

Hitchcock's Other Woman- Joan Harrison: In Hitch's Shadow @ Movie Morlocks

Le Silence de Lorna (2008) @ Cinema Talk


Stuff...

The Last Eruption of Mount Vesuvius @ Dark Destinations

The Quick 10: 10 Facts About Harry Houdini @ Mental Floss

Robert McGinnis on YouTube @ Modesty Blaise News

Better Late Than Never...

News...

Tribeca Film Fest Announces 2009 Lineup @ Dread Central

Saturn Award Nominees Announced @ io9

30 Days of Night Creator Welcomes You to Hoxford @ Horror Hacker

Happy 191st Birthday Frankenstein @ Exploitation Retrospect

Director 'With the X-Ray Eyes' Found @ Horror 101

Film...

Adam Mason Salutes Twelve Horror Classics @ Twitch

Arbogast on Film gets Derailed

Red Mist @ DVD Talk

Let the Right One In @ The Mad Ravings of an Entertainment Junkie

Hellsing @ The Horror!?

The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell @ Blog From the Monsterverse

Proto-Slashers #3: Fright @ Retro Slashers

The Vampire Lovers @ Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies

Cannibal Holocaust @ NotComing.com

Flashman @ Double O Section

Watch...

Scenes We Hate: The Ring @ Cinematical

Recut Shining Trailer @ Doomed Movie Blog

Fade to Black @ Carrie White Burns in Hell

Shock 'Em Dead @ Cult Trailers

Sam Raimi's "Deag Me To Hell" Trailer @ AICN

The Last House on the Left Trailer @ Hulu

Monsters A Go-Go YouTube Trailer Park of Horrors

Read...

Jury of the Undead @ The Horror Hacker

Black and White Wednesday: Web of Horror with Michael Wm. Kaluta @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.@ The Bronze Age of Blogs

I Killed Mary @ Tomb It May Concern

I Spy - "Duet For Danger" pt. I, pt.2 @ Mister 8

Stuff...

Return of the Fly posters @ My Monster Memories

Adam McCauley's "Monster Stamps" @ The Vault of Horror

Sunday Evening Update

Last Week in Horror News: March 1st to March 8th @ HorrorsNot Dead

The Darkroom's The Siege Of 31 August! @ Kindertrauma

Bad Ronald @ Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies

A Cottage on Dartmoor @ Shadowplay

Peeping Tom @ Quint (AICN)

Raumpatrouille @ Black Hole DVD

Who Can Kill a Child? @ And Now the Screaming Starts

The Unborn @ Anchorwoman in Peril

When Does a Faithful Adaptation Turn Into a Bad Adaptation? @ Cinematical

/Film's Frightfest Report

"Dagon" @ The Cthulhu Podcast via QuasarDragon

Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin @ Dark Worlds

New reviews of horror and interview with Gord Rollo @ Monster Librarian

Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones @ Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog

A Hearse of Another Color, by M.E. Chaber @ Killer Covers

The Weird World of Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist @ Magic Carpet Burn

Plastic Man Vs.Monster of Flame! @ Pappy's

Lovecraft shorts: A couple notable youtube finds of the Lovecraft variety. @ The Obscure Hollow

Phantom of the Para.... Brady Bunch Hour?! @ Vinnie Rattolle's

Vampire' discovered in mass grave @ New Scientist via Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog

Tuesday night's stuff

Sage advice from kindertrauma:

"If you're experiencing Bigfoot mania and you want it to end immediately, just watch THE CURSE OF BIGFOOT"

Carrie White Burns in Hell has a vintage commercial for The Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows Game!

Horror's Not Dead reviews the Korean genre flick Hansel & Gretel:

"...Yim either thinks we are f**k**g stupid or he was obliging an undisclosed running time clause, because the movie takes arduous time acknowledging this and every other twist the audience agrees on well before the movie does. I have many, but that may be one of my higher horror movie pet peeves. Don't handicap my experience because someone else may be too thick to crack your substitution code..."

Cinefantasique's gone Psycho!

• Psycho 1960
• Psycho 1998
• Anthony Perkins interview
• Joseph Stefano interview.

A fascinating article at io9: The Roots of Today's Science Fiction Go Back Centuries

When the producer's of the recently released Child's Play DVD decided not to include director Tom Holland, Icons of Fright stepped in and commissioned a brand new commentary track. You can download it free of charge and synch it up with the DVD. Nice one Icons of Fright!

Mad Monsters Make Magical Monster Memories!

Weird and Headless @ Lady, That's My Skull.

Movie Morlocks take a loving look back at the days of the "Great Spookshow Circuit"!

Spoiler TV on the premiere episode of SciFi's Santuary.

Twitch has the official lineup for the Sitges festival.

News: Dracula's Castle To Return To NY Architect

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romania's government on Thursday defended its decision to return Dracula's Castle to a New York-based member of the former royal family, denying allegations that the decision was illegal. The castle, famous for its links to a 15th-century medieval ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula," was confiscated in 1948 by the former communist regime...

Full article here