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In 1960s London, the cowboy is king. The Kid is one such cowboy. At home, he s forced to wear pink pyjamas and expected to play with Sindy dolls. Outside, though, he s free to pedal his horse to the wilds of the nearest bombsite. And then, one night, he sneaks out to visit a saloon. (Plastic Continue reading "New Story for Patrons: The Saloon on Beckton s Edge"
Yes, I m still working through the full A-Z in Brad Steiger s 1999 Werewolf Book. I ve already done A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I , J , K and L . Now, it s time for M . Once again I m skipping the film/TV coverage, which in this case amounts to an entry headed Munster, Eddie . Maenads: Steiger Continue reading "Werewolf Wednesday: M is for Mowgli in Brad Steiger s Werewolf Book (1999)"
In 1982, when Cry to Heaven was published, Anne Rice was not primarily an author of vampire fiction, or even of supernatural fiction. Her three-novel bibliography now consisted of one vampire story followed by two historical stories, and readers would have had no particular reason for expecting her to return to vampires rather than devote her Continue reading "Anniversary with the Vampire: Cry to…
Time for another week with Brad Steiger s 1999 Werewolf Book! So far, my trip through his A-Z of lycanthropy has covered A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I , J and K now, on to L ! Once again, I m skipping the book s coverage of cinema, which in this case is a short biography Continue reading "L is for Lobizon in Brad Steiger s Werewolf Book (1999)"
My latest Comics Journal article is now live. It s a review of Cram Comics #5, an anthology of short pieces themed around something strong when the love is gone
On November 18 1997, then-Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced that twenty-five more pictures would be added to the National Film Registry. This month, I took a look at a few films from Mr. Billington s selection. The Great Dictator (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1940) Jan Svankmajer once said that animators (a group in which he Continue reading "Movie Month July: 1997 US National Film…
Where would I be without Brad Steiger? As shoddy and sensationalistic as his work might be, he s given me plenty of blogging material. In making my way through his 1999 A-Z of werewolves, I ve covered A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I and J and now K . Dr. Stephen Kaplan Tracks Werewolves: Well, Continue reading "Werewolf Wednesday: K is for Kasha in Brad Steiger s Werewolf Book (1999)"
Compared to most horror monsters, werewolves have had an easy job of fitting into urban (or suburban) society. With vampires, it took until Martin in 1977 for them to finally abandon their trappings of cloaks, coffins and crypts, thereby letting them adjust to contemporised fare like The Lost Boys. Werewolves, meanwhile, were never quite so Continue reading "Werewolf Wednesday: Teen Wolf (1985)"
Subscribers to my Patreon can now read the latest instalment in my Transploitation Tales series: Widows of Styria . The story is my homage to J. Sheridan Le Fanu s Carmilla and Eric Stenbock s The True Story of a Vampire ; both of these date from a pre-Dracula period when Styria, rather than Transylvania, was the natural home Continue reading "New Story for Patrons: Widows of Styria "
Yes! Time for another trip through the dubious scholarship of Brad Steiger and The Werewolf Book. I ve covered A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H and I ; so here s J Jack the Ripper: Yet again, we see Steiger defining lycanthropy broadly enough to include serial killers, describing Saucy Jack as one of the most Continue reading "Werewolf Wednesday: J is for Jacko in Brad Steiger s Werewolf Book (1999)"