For your Sunday-before-Halloween dose of Shoegaze, here’s Curve’s “Horror Head”:
Shoegazer Sunday: Curve’s “Horror Head”
October 30th, 2016TV Horrors: The Phoenix
October 29th, 2016If you were trying to construct The Most Painfully 1970s SF TV Show Ever, you might come up with The Phoenix, and never mind that it debuted in 1981.
I mean, look at the intro footage, and tell me it doesn’t reek of the 1970s:
I mean, ancient astronauts, pyramid power, ESP, big medallions and feathered hair! How much more 70s can you get?
This arrived after my “I’ll Watch Any Damn SF/F/H Show On TV” phase, and it actually came and went so quickly (only five episodes aired, including the pilot) I wasn’t even aware of it.
Someone has put up a fairly crappy quality video of the complete pilot:
Hope you like flute music. The writing isn’t very good, but Judson Scott (who I remember best as Khan’s second-in-command) is surprisingly tolerable as Hunky McSunAlien.
For more on similar subject, see Decade of Weirdness: The 1970s and Retro TV Memories: The Fantastic Journey.
Halloween Horror: Nicely Done GIF From a Hammer Film
October 28th, 2016I’ve never seen it, but this is evidently from The Witches:
Halloween Horrors: Mummified Clown
October 27th, 2016Which is scarier, a clown or a mummy?
Well, how about a mummified clown?
The California Institute of Abnormalarts, a bar and concert venue that also functions as a museum of oddities, is home to something that will make anyone with coulrophobia (an irrational fear of clowns) quake in their boots…and it’s every bit as creepy as you might imagine….
Some time ago, Crew acquired what he claims to be the mummified corpse of a clown known as Achile Chatouilleu, a performer who died in 1912.
Achile, whose name translates to “French tickler,” reportedly asked before his death to be embalmed in his favorite clown costume and makeup. The body – which is still in perfect condition today – is pretty creepy, to say the least.
If anyone reading this is out in LA, feel free to drop by the CIA and let me know how well-embalmed the clown looks up close…
Halloween Horrors: A Blog About Devices for Speaking to the Dead
October 26th, 2016This seems like a good thing to mention in October: a blog dedicated to devices for speaking to the dead.
There are planchettes and Ouija boards aplenty, but also tipping tables and rapping hands.
Or how about a neanderthal spirit that supposedly killed 15 people at a French sanitarium?
Library Additions: Three PS Publishing Slipcased Editions
October 25th, 2016Back in August, I ordered three PS Publishing slipcased editions on sale at £12.99 each marked down from £60:
Library Addition: David Wong’s John Dies at the End
October 24th, 2016Wong, David. John Dies At the End. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Cult science fiction horror novel and basis of the Don Coscarelli movie of the same name. Bought for $32.50 from Half Price Books with a 50% off coupon.
Shoegazer Sunday: Dead Leaf Echo’s “So.Wrong”
October 23rd, 2016New York City-based Dead Leaf Echo was another band at the Luscious Heaven shoegaze event last Saturday. Here they are with “So.Wrong”:
Library Addition: Neal Barrett, Jr.’s Judge Dread
October 21st, 2016Another signed Neal Barrett, Jr. book for my collection.
Barrett, Neal, Jr. Judge Dread. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with slight touches of edgewear. Signed by Barrett. Based on the Sylvester Stallone movie. Bought for $5 at Armadillocon
Library Additions: Three Joe R. Lansdale Firsts
October 20th, 2016Here are three Joe R. Lansdale first editions I picked up, the first two at Armadillocon: