Once again, here’s footage from a Transworld Halloween trade show, filled with animatronics, masks, props, etc.
Posts Tagged ‘Horror’
Halloween Horrors: Transworld 2023 Show
Friday, October 20th, 2023Halloween Horror: Kaiju No. 8 Trailer
Friday, October 13th, 2023Not sure if this quite qualifies as a Halloween Horror, but it includes monsters, and it struck my fancy.
Basically, it’s an anime series focused on a guy who’s crappy job is to clean up after kaiju attacks.
It’s basically Damage Inc. meets Godzilla. Plus the teaser trailer is giving off a tiny bit of a FLCL vibe.
I don’t subscribe to Crunchy Roll (or any streaming service), but I’d seriously consider buying the DVD set when it eventually comes out.
Halloween Horrors: Mel’s Hole
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023Here’s a nicely creepy borderlands of science/urban legend/conspiracy theory video about a hole that has no bottom.
80,000 feet worth of fishing line found no bottom. Plus animals avoided it, and radios went crazy, when they weren’t picking up signals from 30 years before.
Then the government took it over.
Much more paranormal weirdness ensues
Was it real? Well, as real as anything else with a Wikipedia entry featured on Art Bell.
Good luck finding it on map…
Library Addition: Saki’s A Little Red Book of Wit & Shudders
Monday, October 2nd, 2023Another Borderlands Little Book:
Saki (H.H. Munro) (edited by Stuart David Schiff). A Little Red Book of Wit & Shudders. Bands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 copies signed by Schiff, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued.
I will have a small number of copies available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Halloween Horrors: Play-through of Cosmic Horror Game Isle of Eras
Sunday, October 1st, 2023The Halloween season is upon us again!
This video features a complete play-through of Isle of Eras, which starts out as a search for a missing brother and quickly morphs into a weird cosmic horror/time travel game with giant monsters and nods to everything from Donnie Darko to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s amazingly elaborate for an indie game put together by a tiny team. The monster design is particularly impressive.
Available for PS4/5 and PC (but not, alas, Mac).
Library Additions: Three Subterranean Press First Editions
Thursday, September 21st, 2023Three Subterranean Press books that came in recently:
I will have copies of all of these in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Additions: Three Joe R. Lansdale Trade Paperback Firsts
Thursday, September 14th, 2023Three more Lansdale firsts, two signed.
Note: Both the Pandi Press books say “First paperback edition,” but each is actually a true first (current ETA for the Thunderstorm Books signed/limited hardback of The Drive-In: Multiplex is December).
Library Addition: Limited Edition of Avram Davidson’s Naples
Monday, September 4th, 2023Another Avram Davidson chapbook from Temporary Culture.
Davidson, Avram. Naples. The Nutmeg Point District Mail/Temporary Culture, 2022. First edition self-wrappers chapbook original, one of 160 copies, a Fine copy, inside a black envelope with Mylar protective wrappers and with a mounted black and white photograph laid in. Bought for $150 (the subscriber price). Story reprinted from Charles L. Grant’s Shadows anthology.
I’m sort of a Davidson completists but these chapbooks are starting to get a bit pricey for my budget…
Library Addition: Shakespeare Unleashed
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023Another Kickstarter item that came in:
With:
Bought together for $54, including shipping.
Library Additions: H. P. Lovecraft’s Miskatonic Missives
Monday, August 28th, 2023Here’s a Kickstarter project that was a long time in coming that finally shipped earlier this year.
Each volume contains a reprint of one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most interesting letters, presented alongside related archival material such as contemporary short stories, art, maps, etc., as well as original art and new scholarship.
Each volume is also packaged with a set of exclusive extras—replicas of related contemporary materials such as photos, maps, ticket stubs, postcards, news clippings, and diary pages. The Collector’s set packages all of these extras in a custom box which nests in the slipcase alongside the three books. Each Limited Edition Collector’s set is supplied with a Certificate of Ownership signed by editors Andrew Leman and Sean Branney of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and a collectible enamel pin.
This is just the loose extras; there are additional extras for each volume, in their individual envelopes in the Ephemera traycase.
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It’s an impressive assemblage, and one legions of Lovecraft fans will be kicking themselves over not picking up in years to come.
Total price for both with shipping was $203.50.