Month: October 2015
Read This: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury’s iconic October novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, taps into the sadness and longing that lurks behind what frightens us.
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Watch This: Tales From the Darkside
George A. Romero’s Tales From the Darkside, in first-run syndication from 1983-1988, was part of a great eighties revival of horror/weird anthology TV. The format lent itself to clever, twisted half-hour stories made on the cheap with low-tech special effects and great enthusiasm.
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NYCC 2015: A Nerd In the Crowd
As a fan without a specific focus, I did my best to show up with few preconceived expectations and a willingness to learn what the NYCC is all about. I got there nice and early, and was pleased to find the line to enter moving quickly. And by noon, the venue was packed.
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Read This: Pontypool Changes Everything
Tony Burgess’s Pontypool Changes Everything is an unusual entry in the zombie novel field. In it, the danger of zombiehood comes though the corruption and failure of language, and Burgess creates a great deal of mayhem without splattering everything in sight.
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