When it comes to cleanliness I consider myself to be a pretty tidy individual…whether my family and friends see me that way, though, remains to be seen. I mean, can I really help it if others lack a true appreciation for the chronological organization of my jars of belly lint or the sophisticated color classification […]
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While Goosebumps gets a lot of attention for being THE preeminent scare series during everyone’s childhood, there’s actually another collection of books that pre-dates R.L. Stine. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, first released in 1981, consists of three books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Based primarily on folklore and […]
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: In celebration of all things Goosebumps, we’ve invited our fiendish severed head of a friend—and my co-host on Monsters & Metal Postcast‘s “What’s Crackle’n” segment—Decapitated Dan to join us all October long! In this piece, Dan takes a look at five of creepiest covers from the Goosebumps franchise to see how well these […]
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The year was 2007. I was sixteen and had just recently gotten into comics thanks to a little shop in my area called Graphic Literature. I’d gotten to know the owner, Trevor, pretty well and he’d introduced me to titles like Preacher, SCUD and the comics of Jeffrey Brown. One day, however, I came across […]
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In its original airing, Twin Peaks gripped viewers in a way that not many TV series are capable of. How else do you explain the cult success it’s achieved today? Thanks to a well-written “whodunit” hook and unique casting choices, David Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost proved to be masters at creating suspense. At the […]
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S.K.Colastic Reading: John Dies At The End
Every now and then, I pick up a book that engages me almost to a point of addiction. You know the feeling—a story so entertaining that you won’t, sorry, can’t put it down. John Dies at the End by humor writer and Cracked.com executive editor, David Wong (Jason Pargin), really raises, or rather sets, that […]
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Like most kids who proudly tout the moniker of “strange,” I grew up on a healthy diet of monster movies, comic books and horror stories, many of which were accompanied by mind-altering visions of madness. One horror story book that stands out among the rest Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories To Tell In […]
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Zombies. It’s the current money maker of anything pertaining to the horror genre right now, a high-powered (and lucrative) locomotive with very little sign of slowing down. When anything reaches such a point of popularity, we seem to get force fed it by the shovel full. Some of it great and some of it bad… […]
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S.K.Colastic Reading: The Complete Drive In
Putting this book on the shelves of the Strange Kids Clubhouse just made everything, well, stranger. Just to warn you of what that means, let’s take a very quick crash course on the author. If H.P. Lovecraft and Mr. Miyagi’s DNA were spliced together the resulting humanoid creature would be called Joe R. Lansdale. Lansdale […]