Archives for October 2008
The Brutal Sound of Two Euro Horror
This Halloween sees me (somewhat reluctantly) abandoning my usual routine. There’ll be no carving of turnips,1 no careful choosing of monster movies, and no poisoning of local children with cheap & nasty sweeties. Instead, I’ll be performing best-man duties (and… continue reading »
Horror Bits and Nasty Bobs
Given the current global financial apocalypse I assume that most of you are now eating shoe leather for dinner, wailing yourselves to sleep in damp & draughty cardboard boxes, and shaking your sore-encrusted fists at an indifferent god. While I… continue reading »
Degradation and Deviancy: Signs, Pt. 3
Yesterday afternoon I spent several minutes wandering around a very large shopping centre car park. Though this was not, I’m happy to say, the highlight of my weekend thus far, I did chance upon the below (groovy) images. Proof (as… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 9: Gabriel-Ernest
Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist? Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we’re not only getting out the club magnifying glass to squint at the werewolf myth (through the prism of “Gabriel Ernest”), but also asking (in strong, but non-judgmental, terms) what Hector Hugh… continue reading »
The Salty Taste of Irish Horror – Live!
I Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet’s fetishists, paranoids, perverts and obsessives, there are areas of enthusiasm that remain curiously (and sadly) neglected. Take fans of live blogging, horror,… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts: Fústar vs. The Wolf Man
Being (occasionally) a collaborative sort who (occasionally) values input, I canvassed regular and semi-regular Dreadful Thoughts “members” as to what tale they’d most like to cover in Story Club session number 9. After last week’s encounter with a Byronic “Vampyre”,… continue reading »
Screen Grab Saturday
Bit of light, wholesome family fun for you all on this pissy, piddly Saturday afternoon. Having been laid up sick for the last week I’ve had naught to do but work my way through a sizeable number of DVDs (always… continue reading »
