Susan is the third of the Three Mothers with me and Mildred, Mater Suspiriorum. My cat Colette is buried in the backyard of her old house: that’s the kind of friends we are. Small critters of all kinds know to trust her. Her home, consequently, is ruled by cats. Her home is an oasis for…
Category: horror
Know-vember: Mildred
The stuff of legends! It’s Mildred, the Demon Den Mom, wrangler of the Horror in Film and Literature List and Mater Lachrimarum of the Three Mothers. Look — she’s drinking a beer that’s not the usual sex-in-a-canoe variety! Hee hee. 1. What’s the first thing you do upon waking in the morning? I have no…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Werewolf of Paris
Yeah, I seem to have wolves on the brain of late. I’m not the only one as this window display in an Eyre Square shop shows. I can’t explain — oh, wait. Yes, I can. One reason is that I’ve got a story coming out soon: It’s a Curse which will be the seventh installment…
Tuesday’s Overlooked Films: Curse of the Werewolf
My fondness for Oliver Reed is well know, I suspect. Curse of the Werewolf is a fine Hammer offering that doesn’t get the love Cushing and Lee get or the vamps and Frankies do. But as it’s October already, it seems appropriate to highlight one of the less well known films of the famous British…
Publication: Dracula X
My latest publication is another humorous piece, this time in Defenestration Magazine. It may look a trifle familiar to folks on the Horror in Film and Literature list: “Review: Dracula X” By Defenestration â‹… July 13, 2011 â‹… I was a little worried about seeing this as I had not see the first nine installments,…
Publication: The Wyandotte Haunting
There Was a Crooked House… Edited by Jessy Marie Roberts ISBN-13: 978-1-61706-111-0 Cover Price $15.99 Lots of crooked stories, in a little crooked book…includes the following pieces of short fiction: Cat Call by Kat Heckenbach The Crooked House of Coins by Jeff Chapman Glass House by Heidi Mannan Don’t Let the Rain Come Down by …
Publishing News & Connecticut Bound
Over at Night and Day, The Spectator’s Arts blog, I have an introduction to erotic fiction that will give you some steamy reading for this rainy day. Simon always gives me such interesting assignments; I find it amusing that the newspaper is so conservative and its Arts blog so liberal. Of necessity, this is only…
BitchBuzz: Sarah Angliss/Spacedog
Looking forward to catching some of these performances in London: I find her work absolutely fascinating. Sarah Angliss and “Spacedog” By K.A. Laity Musician, engineer, writer Sarah Angliss has embarked on a round of performances under the aegis of Spacedog. Her unique combination of nerdy science knowledge, inspired music and automata brings together technology, history and the…
Today’s Film: The Haunting (1963)
Here’s an interesting combination of trailer and music video (because yes, I can find a connection to The Fall who covered this song, too). I’m looking forward to seeing this fine film with a bunch of students who have never seen it. It’s such an effectively spooky movie!
Tuesday’s Overlooked Film: Cat People
Simone Simon stars in the Tourneur/Lewton frightfest Cat People from 1942. I’m teaching this today along with a first toe-dipping into Freudian theory. Old Siggy had a lot of hang-ups from his time and misapprehensions about human nature (as opposed to its particular manifestation during his particular and odd time) but there were enough astute…