If you’re looking for a fun, not-so frightening movie to watch this Halloween after the trick-or-treaters have packed it in, I suggest Phantom of the Paradise, released 50 years ago this fall. A 1970’s take on the classic …Opera tale, the movie is about a failed songwriter who swears vengeance Continue reading a halloween treat: “phantom” at 50
…is what I’m going to share with you from Philip K. Dick’s disturbing short story, “The Father-Thing,” first published in 1954, and adapted into an episode of a TV show in 2017. If the name Philip K. Dick sounds familiar, it’s because he was a prolific sci-fi writer whose works Continue reading the most messed-up thing you’ll read today…
Previously, I had talked about what makes monsters scary; as well as how despite appearances to the contrary, monsters really only come in two types. Now I’d like to share with you some monsters that scared me when I was younger, and why they still do, even though I’m a Continue reading making monsters meaningful, part 3
The latest in a series about influences from my earlier days. Everyone knows Ray Bradbury as a science-fiction writer, but one of my favorite works from him (aside from his masterpiece, Something Wicked This Way Comes) is his young adult novel The Halloween Tree, which I read many years ago Continue reading when the world was young: the halloween tree
