How about some unsettling doorbell footage for the Halloween season? Some of it is of home invaders, and others that have ill intent, but some of it just seems to be of weird or deranged people whose motives are unclear.
Posts Tagged ‘Horror’
Halloween Horrors: Creepy Doorbell Footage
Friday, October 18th, 2024Halloween Horror: Scottish Oil Rig Horror Game
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024As I may have mentioned before, I don’t tend to play horror video games, despite reading horror, because I don’t care for some tropes of the genre that appear in almost every game (path dependency and jump scares being two), but I do enjoy watching Daz Games play them, since he freaks out enjoyably at some scenes.
This time around he’s playing Still Wakes The Deep, a horror game set on a Scottish oil rig in the North Sea that manages to dredge up something horrifically eldritch. Though the path dependency is there, the game has two big things going for it: Superb voice acting for well-realized characters and a really detailed, immersive setting of a working oil rig that provides a lot of other dangers in addition to the monster.
Halloween Horrors: A Giant Animatronic Prop Collection
Thursday, October 10th, 2024In a follow-up to yesterday’s Transworld trade show post, here’s a guy that has a collection of over 150 Halloween animatronic props.
His animatronic collection may or may not have been more expensive than my book collection to acquire, but I’m pretty sure it’s significantly more expensive to store…
Halloween Horrors: 2024 Transworld Trade Show
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024Time for a walk through of this year’s Transworld Halloween trade show. These are always a lot of fun.
Bigger-than-life animatronic figures seem to be a continuing theme (and Sam’s has had one or two such for sale the last few years), including a number of oversized werewolves, and my neighborhood has several Gashadokuro this year. There was also a number of high quality giant spiders on display.
Halloween Horror: Horrific Mining Disasters
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024Time for some real-life horror. How about disturbing mining disasters?
As difficult and dangerous as working in an underground mine is now, it was a lot worse in the 19th century. At the Snaefell zinc mine on the Isle of Man, a government inspector had passed the mine’s ventilation just two days before some 36 miners descended into the mine on May 9, 1897. 19 would never return, overcome by carbon monoxide.
Much closer to the present day, the Val Reef’s gold mine in South Africa is one of the deepest in the world. On May 10, 1995, an underground locomotive used to haul gold and other things raced out of control and plunged into an elevator shaft hauling 104 miners up to the surface after their shift, The elevator plunged more than 1,500 feet to the bottom of the shaft…where the recirculating pumps pulled in and redistributed a fine mist of the slain miner’s blood all over the mine.
That video ends with a look at another fascinating but horrifying disaster: The Great Boston Molasses Flood.
Halloween Horrors: Vanlife Guy Moves Into Offgrid Tower In The Woods To Play Horror Video Game About Vanlife Guy Who Goes To Offgrid Tower In The Woods
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024Remember a few years ago when I posted the video of the vanlife gamer guy playing a horror video game at night, alone, in a cave?
Well now he has a video of him in an off-grid tower in the woods, where he plays a horror video game about a vanlife guy in an off-grid tower in the woods.
Enjoy the horrifying inception!
Library Additions: Three Paperbacks
Wednesday, September 18th, 2024Three more very cheap purchases from that storage locker sale:
Not a bad haul for $1.50…
Library Additions: Three Firsts (Asimov, King, Ruff)
Tuesday, September 17th, 2024Three used books, two of which were bought extremely cheaply.
Library Addition: Joe R. Lansdale’s In The Mad Mountains
Thursday, September 12th, 2024Another Tachyon Lansdale first.
Lansdale, Joe R. In The Mad Mountains. Tachyon, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Addition: Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Little Orange Book of Odd Orchestrations
Wednesday, August 28th, 2024Another Borderlands Little Book:
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Mark W. Whitback, editor). A Little Orange Book of Odd Orchestrations Borderlands Books, 2024. First edition hardback, #463 of 500 copies signed by the editor, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Fantastic stories, several of which are covered in Bleiler’s Supernatural Fiction, pages 159-161, and Bleiler’s Science Fiction: The Early Years, pages 203-209. Part of their “Past Masters of Horror and Fantasy” series, focusing on late 19th/early 20th century writers.
I will have a small number of copies available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.