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2011 is the birthday centennial for Vincent Price, and the anniversary was celebrated by various magazines, blogs, film screenings and other events that honored the late actor. It was most memorably observed in Price’s hometown of St. Louis, where the Vincentennial was marked by a series of events organized primarily by Price fan Tom Stockman…. [Continue Reading]
Misery Obscura: The Art and Photography of Eerie Von. That’s the name of the tour of paintings and photographs by former Samhain/Danzig musician Eerie Von that stopped in Pittsburgh last month. I was there and came away very impressed! The setting was a smaller club and gallery, the Rex Theater. The event had a very informal,… [Continue Reading]
In 1824, the mother of Frankenstein wrote an essay entitled, “On Ghosts”, for issue 9 of London Magazine. Besides including a personal nightmare about a haunted house, Mary Shelley relates an account of a suicide, a headless corpse, and a bloody ghost. I am posting an excerpted form of the article here for your Halloween enjoyment. (The… [Continue Reading]
Yes, I recently found myself absorbed by that well-known piece of cinema trash! I never would have guessed that THE BRAIN THE WOULDN’T DIE would take me in so completely! But I don’t regret it a bit. Late last month I attended a Pittsburgh screening of the 1962 schlocker, which is a real buffet of… [Continue Reading]
To comment on the film classic White Zombie is a task that daunts me. This minor classic, with its wealth of haunting imagery, has been commented on, criticized and analyzed by so many people, that I wonder what I can add. Not that I haven’t thought about the film. Stills from it ran in Famous… [Continue Reading]
The Hollywood Theater, a film revival house here in the Pittsburgh, recently screened THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. (Of course, I mean the classic 1959 version starring Vincent Price–is there any other, really, to mention?) The Hollywood Theater is a restored neighborhood movie theater in the suburb of Dormont, and is organized as a non-profit…. [Continue Reading]
…a “si” holiday! Today’s Cinco de Mayo and yesterday was “”Star Wars Day.” I’m two days too dazed! (What else is new?) I had no idea that yesterday was a special date on the calendar, until this lady walked into my place of work: I asked why she was wearing Jedi clothing, and she told… [Continue Reading]
The new novel by Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight, is the first literary novel to feature a television horror host as a central character, and it makes an emotional impact as a story of “lonely horror.” That’s the kind of horror that haunts Eddie Alley. Alley works as “Captain Casket”, a monster… [Continue Reading]
Do you keep pets? I’ve had in the last several years a large tarantula, a one-eyed snake (no, not THAT–a REAL snake), various feline familiars, and some Venus Fly Traps, which are as close to pets as plants can get. This very large cane toad was found a few years ago in Australia, one of… [Continue Reading]
EasTERROR! I wish my Easter basket for TDSH readers was filled with a ginormous assortment of colorful images for weird people like you and me. Except my computer has been behaving badly for weeks now, and the $225 I paid for a “computer professional” to fix my problems over two visits has resulted in my… [Continue Reading]
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