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31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 18

Located just outside of Birch Run, the Junction Valley Railroad Halloween Spook Train has been chugging along now for 30 years.  The ride takes you on a 2 mile, 22 minute jaunt though a plethora of Halloween scenes ranging from rather creepy to laugh out loud funny.  You’ll pass through cemeteries, laboratories of mad scientists,Continue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 18”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 17

In How to Survive a Horror Movie, Seth Grahame Smith (he of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies fame) has crafted a love letter to all horror geeks.  Laugh out loud funny and smartly written, Smith deconstructs all manner of horror movie situations and antagonists and teaches you everything you needContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 17”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 16

Trucker Ghost Stories – Audiobook 2012 edited by Annie Wilder These are true stories from the highways and byways of America. These firsthand accounts are as varied as the storytellers themselves—some are detailed and filled with the terror and suspense that made people feel they had to share what happened to them with others; othersContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 16”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 14

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Nintendo Entertainment System 1989) “Something frightening has been happening on Elm Street lately. It seems that with each waking day another gruesome discovery is made… another neighborhood teen has mysteriously passed away into the dark stillness of the night. Everyone says it’s “natural causes,” but it seems as if somethingContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 14”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 13

The Simpson’s first annual Treehouse of Horror was originally broadcast on October 25, 1990, and is the only one of the yearly episodes to actually take place in Bart’s treehouse despite subsequent titles. This first offering finds Bart, Lisa and Maggie telling scary stories in Bart’s treehouse on Halloween night.  Each story being a segmentContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 13”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 11

The elements that make Session 9 work so well are the same elements that make John Carpenter’s The Thing the terrifying masterpiece that it is.  A sense of isolation.  In this case an asbestos abatement team working in an abandoned mental asylum.  The fact that these are grown men in danger, not teenagers and not women, but fully grown,Continue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 11”

Action Figure Review – Kid Festered’s Xenocreeps

Xenocreeps is the initial bootleg action figure from graphic designer and all around mad bastard Adam Gotthardt a.k.a. Kid Festered.Standing at 3 1/4 inches tall, the Xenocreep is kit bashed from a Dino-Riders Dedeye body and a strange bandaged head and then cast in clear resin.  I’m usually pretty good at deciphering the bits and piecesContinue reading “Action Figure Review – Kid Festered’s Xenocreeps”