Once upon a time, there was a great little web series called Making Fiends that turned into a swell TV series. Both versions told about the dynamic between Vendetta, an evil little girl that makes fiends, and Charlotte, who thinks Vendetta is her best friend despite the latter loathing her.
Here’s a video of the Halloween episode.
Alas, Nickelodeon cancelled the TV show after only one season. I’m glad I bough the DVD when it was available, as its now out of print and people are asking ridiculous amounts for it…
Daily Dose of Internet does video compilations, and here are some of the most cursed. These are less straight horror than just weird, unsettling and creepy.
Come for the electric guacamole, stay for the airport flooding with green slime.
(You know, Electric Guacamole would be a good name for a rock band…)
For those unfamiliar with A. J. Gentile, he’s the guy behind The Why Files, where he and sidekick Hecklefish examine various paranormal subjects, spooky stories, legends, fringe science theories, etc. A bunch of stuff that could have been covered by Art Bell or Fortean Times. I used him as fodder for previous Halloween posts here and here.
Turns out that Joe Rogan is a fan, too, and he did a nearly three hour interview with him:
Topics covered include UFOs, aliens, floods, the weirdness of the moon, military technology (that might have come from aliens), etc.
Remember: Alternate reality theories are for entertainment purposes only…
I haven’t been buying too many signed/limited editions due to my current jobless state, but I decided I wanted this one.
Silverberg, Robert. Nightwings. Centipede Press, 2025. First limited edition hardback, #338 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread, still in shrinkwrap. Somehow I never picked up the first edition hardback, even though the novella is one of Silverberg’s best. Includes a bonus interview with Silverberg and reproductions of covers of previous editions. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I will have one copy of this available for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, hopefully out around the end of September.
People find all sorts of interesting things in Google Earth, some of which are more unsettling than others.
These include:
A glitch that made everything in New Baltimore, New York look weird, distorted and ghostly.
A car that showed up submerged in a suburban Florida retention. Turned out there was dead guy in it that had gone missing 22 years before.
A plane deep in the Cambodian jungle that might be flight MH370. (You would think someone would have investigated the site by now, even if only with a drone. And the intact wing shape seems unlikely in a jungle crash situation.)
A gathering of people in clown masks that might have been members of a drug cartel.
This video about the five levels of dreams shouldn’t be horror…except it is.
Between the loud, jarring section starts to the disturbing visuals to the eerie use of liminal spaces, the video seems designed more to induce nightmares than explain them.
Some of this jibes what what I experience when dreaming, and some of it doesn’t. Your mileage may vary.
Lansdale, Joe R. (Joe Hill) The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale. Tachyon, 2025. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, signed by Lansdale. According to the publisher, Joe showed up for their 30th Anniversary Party and “signed all the books.” I’m not sure if it means he signed all mine, signed all preorders, or signed every single book. Joe Hill provides the introduction. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I will have a small number of signed copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, which I’ll start working on next month.
