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On the field ahead, Gale had shaken off most of her psychological numbness, the shock to her senses of the repeated exposures to terror. She had started talking again. Whereas it had been Deb’s strength which carried them over the mass grave, that unflowing river of corpses, and beyond the reach of the fire, Gale…Continue readingTHE CHOSEN Part Four: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE ABYSS, DISCOUNT PRICED Chapter 15

“Got you now, little bitch. Got you now.” Charlie Drenth had sat on the scorched lip of the mass grave and cried, his face buried in his dirty hands. “We’ll never catch ’em now!” he’d blubbered. But he had. Now he squatted in the dry grass and laughed. Charlie pressed a finger to one nostril,…Continue readingTHE CHOSEN Part Four: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE ABYSS, DISCOUNT PRICED Chapter 14

From the official press release: “U.S.-based National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) has announced plans for its full line of Universal Monsters action figures. Working closely with Universal Brand Development, LUGOSI LLC, and Chaney Entertainment, the figures will capture the horror world’s most iconic figures in NECA’s long-running Ultimate format. The first figure (arriving in July)…Continue readingNECA Does Bela Doing Dracula

The conference is a celebration of scholarship devoted to that marvelous novel DRACULA and any and all things relating to it, overseen by scholar Hans de Roos. GOLDEN BAT AWARDS: 1. The Golden Bat Award for the Most Original Research: Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues (Brazil), for “Blood & Couture: Dracula by Eiko Ishioka.” 2. The Golden…Continue readingThe Winners of the 2021 Children of the Night International Dracula Conference

We thought we knew the pedigree, how the Dean-Balderston script evolved, led to the involvement of Bela Lugosi, led to the Universal movie of 1931. It turns out there were plans for an earlier production, one that, for reasons unknown, never came to fruition. This earlier version would have involved Bram Stoker himself, not just…Continue readingThe First Dracula Stage Production

Jamie Foxx will be playing a vampire hunter in DAY SHIFT for Netflix, also starring Dave Franco and Snoop Dog. Sounds like a more lighthearted, possibly comedic take on the material, which might or might not work. Speaking of NETFLIX, CASTLEVANIA will return to the streamer for its fourth and final season on May 13th.…Continue readingIn the News

Here is the Salt Vampire from the original STAR TREK television series, from Mego. I’ll be leaving this bad boy in his packaging. Here is my thrice-delayed but finally delivered Funko “Prince Vlad” figure from BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA. Followers of our sister site DARKNESS.COM know about my recent expedition in search of the Altamaha-ha, aka…Continue readingA Little Roundup of Some of My Latest Acquisitions

I don’t get tired of writing about Jason Voorhees. The FRIDAY THE 13th movies were just too big a part of my childhood. I love them, and their hockey-mask-wearing star, too much for that. (No surprise to regular followers of this site.) The lumbering (sometimes) hulking (unless you count FRIDAY THE 13TH Part 2, where…Continue readingVisit Camp Blood Again

The Darkness laughed then, threw back its sham head and laughed. Dave’s features crumbled away; the very scenes surrounding them vanished. Brian found himself left in a void of absolute nothingness, yet he couldn’t escape the laughter. It grew in volume, deafening. His bones trembled to the resonance. “So be it, little fool!” the Darkness…Continue readingTHE CHOSEN Part Four: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE ABYSS, DISCOUNT PRICED Chapter 13

Here courtesy of Insider is a detailed timeline of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER creator Joss Whedon’s ass going irreversibly into a sling. It begins with AVENGERS 2 and the claim that the script is misogynist, which is bullshit. Hey, I call ‘em like I see ‘em and I try really hard to remain impartial, and…Continue readingWhedon Timeline

I’m not gonna worry about GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE. I’m going to have faith. I’m not going to think about how ridiculously high the bar has been set. It would have been anyway: it’s the first GHOSTBUSTERS movie (that isn’t an unfortunate revisionist misstep) in over 30 years, and one that promises to be a proper continuation…Continue readingMeet the MiniPufts

Any news pertaining to ancient Egypt is bound to excite me. Bound to excite a lot of you, too, I expect. We automatically start thinking of Boris Karloff and THE MUMMY, don’t we? Or King Tut and the possibilities of a real-world mummy’s curse. Or both. (For me it’s always simultaneous. In fact the two…Continue readingThe Lost Egyptian City and the “Mysterious” Skeleton