Poster for The Night Stalker

#NowWatching THE NIGHT STALKER (1972). Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley.

Haven't seen these Kolchak stories since I was a kid. Use to love that shit! Time for nostalgia fix!

#filmsky 📽

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Speaking of old school SESAME STREET, there are few things as beautifully intense as James Earl Jones reciting the alphabet…

The Criterion release of NIGHTMARE ALLEY, art by Thomas Ott.

The interior of the Criterion release of NIGHTMARE ALLEY, art by Thomas Ott.

The booklet for the Criterion release of NIGHTMARE ALLEY, art by Thomas Ott.

The discs of the Criterion release of NIGHTMARE ALLEY, art by Thomas Ott.

Alright so, A) we'll see how I feel on a rewatch but I am currently pretty mixed on GDT's NIGHTMARE ALLEY and B) I hate Criterion's propensity for weird packaging instead of just putting their discs in a case like a normal person, BUT this Thomas Ott artwork and design fucking rules.

Someone asked if I make any money off the blog.

No. I do not monetize the blog. No ads, no sponsorships, no Patreon. I do use Amazon affiliate links, but that's just to offset the cost of the books a little, really, and most months it doesn't pay out anything.

Abbott. Costello. Frankenstein.

I'll be honest, I lost interest in GDT's FRANKENSTEIN when I learned it would be ignoring an integral part of the original novel.

Intro to Captain Justice in the tale The Earthquake Maker - An Amazing Yarn of the World in Danger by Murray Roberts, 1935. No. 465 in The Boys' Friend Library.

Is it just my imagination, or does 1930's UK Captain Justice sound an awful lot like US Doc Savage?

Globe trotting adventurer, champion of the down-trodden, amazing transport vehicles, his very own headquarters, a team of able assistants ...

Bram Stoker sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stoker... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Handforth, [couldn't identify], Danielle Scarpa-Kos and [couldn't identify]):

Unhappy brain day, so to try and stave off the gloom, a game.

1 like = 1 line from the 15 Jun 1933 letter of Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, talking about writing, schooling, and life

Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores

Authors, I think you might enjoy this long interview with a independent bookstore buyer about how bookstores decide what books to stock and display: countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The Faculty (1998) 🎥
Directed by Robert Rodriguez

When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions.

#FilmSky

Forbidden Planet (1956) 🎥
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox

A startship crew travels to a distant planet's colony to investigate its silence.
Once there, they discover two survivors and a dark secret.

#FilmSky

Her Letters To Lovecraft: Catherine Lucille Moore Dear Mr. Lovecraft: Your letter has impressed me tremendously. It’s awfully nice to be flattered, and Mr. Barlow’s compliments in particular have pleased me a great deal, but not until …

Underappreciated deep cut of the day: what do two pulp authors have to talk about? Everything.

deepcuts.blog/2020/08/26/h...

Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍

It (2017)

By Jim Harris

"All your life, you will remember this night. And you’ll know whom you have turned loose upon the world."

#S2E5

Twilight Zone’s "The Howling Man" (November 4, 1960) by Charles Beaumont stars John Carradine, Robin Hughes, and H.M. Wynant -- who's still with us at age 98!

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

The meta horror comedy ‘The Final Girls’ (aka ‘Scream Girl’) starring Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, and Adam DeVine was released in Mexico and Singapore this week in 2015 📽️ 🔥 🏕️ #OTD

Crestwood Books

Movie Monsters Series

Series 2

1985-1987

Crestwood Books

Movie Monsters Series

Series 2

1985

9. Werewolf of London

1987.

10. Revenge of the Creature
11. House of Seven Gables
12. The Black Cat

Crestwood Books

Movie Monsters Series

1985

Series 2

5. The Mole People
6. The Raven
7. Dracula's Daughter
8. Bride of Frankenstein

The original series was written by Julian May under the pen name of Ian Thorne. It became so popular that other authors soon joined in, and a second series was started.

Crestwood Books

Movie Monsters Series

1985

Series 2

1. House of Fear
2. Tarantula
3. Black Friday
4. Ghost of Frankenstein

The original series was so popular it ran for ten years and was reprinted many times. It made its way to public library system as well.

Monsters from Crestwood

Monster Series Books

1986-1987

13. The Invisible Man
14. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
15. The Phantom of the Opera

Newspaper clipping The news has been received here of the death in Providence, R. I. of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, formerly a well-known resident. he leaves a widow and two sisters--Mrs. I. C. Hill of Pelham, and Mrs. Paul Millon, of Mount Vernon.

Putting this here so I can find it later.

www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

You Have to Watch This Amazing, All-Practical 'Godzilla' Short Film 'Fest Godzilla II: Shinjuku Burning' is a one-shot-style celebration of classic toku effects.

You Have to Watch This Amazing, All-Practical ‘Godzilla’ Short Film gizmodo.com/godzilla-day...

Robert W. Chambers used Yellow Peril and antisemitic stereotypes in his fiction. Arthur Machen leaned in on anthropological anxiety, Turanians, and antiziganism. Lord Dunsany was your genuine Great White Hunter and wrote fiction about the "Colour Bar" in the United States.

Nobody is perfect.

Sherman Oaks Galleria in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Sherman Oaks Galleria in Commando

Sherman Oaks Galleria in Chopping Mall

Sherman Oaks Galleria in Terminator 2

Considering the recent wave of nostalgic movie documentaries, it blows my mind that nobody has made one about the Sherman Oaks Galleria, aka The Mall In Every 80s Movie. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Night of the Comet, Commando, Phantom of the Mall, Innerspace, Chopping Mall, Terminator 2 etc...

Monsters from Crestwood

Monster Series Books

1981-1982

9. Frankenstein meets Wolfman
10. The Blob
11. The Deadly Mantis
12. It Came From Outer Space

Monsters from Crestwood

Monster Series Books

1977

5. King Kong
6. Godzilla

1981-1982

7. Mummy
8. Creature from the Black Lagoon

Artist and author Osamu Tezuka sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tezuka... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his work: