2008 April - Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005

Old Temples and Fakirs and Jugglers

If you were given the gift of but one wish, one wish in this whole wide world, what would it be? If you've just shrieked "Wildly rich!...

This blog's recent forays into (among other things) the colourful worlds of horror and bestial fan fiction seem to be bearing stranger...

News has reached me of a tremendously groovy conference being organised by the good people from The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror...

Welcome ye night wanderers, ye fumblers in the deep & fear-filled dark. Welcome to the fourth instalment of the interweb's dreadfulest...

I As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from...

As the first batch of badges make their way to their (un)lucky owners (and the mixtape continues to grow & mutate satisfactorily),...

Hewn from the molten plasticks of hell flame it has come. The dread mark that speaks of pain, of pestilence and of putridity. Long...

Evenin' all. Given that one of very short stories up for discussion tonight ("Sredni Vashtar") concerns a great ferret god who lays...

Though this vale of tears we call the world is plentifully stocked with bleak places and spaces – Abu Ghraib, Chernobyl, Auschwitz-Birkenau...

The naming of those fantastic (and hideous) creatures that routinely crawl from the earth's dark chasms or slither from the depths...