Recent content by overgeeked

I just finished The Wehrwolf, by Alma Katsu, a Bram Stoker Award winning novella. It has a really slow and boring start. So much so that despite being less than 80 pages I put it aside twice. I’m glad I finished it because once it got going, it was really good…despite the ending being dumb...

Nah. Misread “got” as “not.”

The art and trailer look fantastic. This kind of genre mashup is 100% my jam. Having a bit of Saturday morning cartoon nostalgia lately. Too bad it’s 5E.

I have a stack of old Perry Rhodan Silberband hardbacks I’d like to get to eventually. Need a lot better German before I get there, though.

That's why I didn't watch this one live.

Since we’re doing duplicate threads to get around two-way ignores now, hey @Brendan Byrd how about opening a duplicate 2026 reading thread.

I just finished the 2005 Bram Stoker Award-winning novella Best New Horror by Joe Hill. I picked this one because I’ve never read a Joe Hill story and because it won a Stoker. If you don’t know, Joe Hill is one of Stephen King’s kids. While King can’t stick an ending to save his life, I had...

That's the one. Cheers. Too bad about the reviews.

That looks a lot better than the initial trailer. Isn’t there a similar liminal space horror movie coming soon? Something with a subway-esque theme I thought?

It seems to be mostly about wanting to push digital tools, which is really too bad.

Exactly. The characters had to be inherently interesting and visually distinct because they would be toys. Or, they were visually distinct and inherently interesting toys, therefore they were represented as such on screen. This also lead to not giving a damn about a lot of conventions...

That actually looks kinda fun. Way better than the Dolf version from the 80s. I don't care about "canon" or whatever changes they've made. It's live-action movie based on a kids cartoon from that 80s that was nothing more than a long commercial for toys.

I just finished The Talosite, a novella by Rebecca Campbell. The subtitle could have been “Or: the modern Frankenstein.” It was such a good book. Well written and utterly engaging. The main character, Anne, is our Victor Frankenstein. She reanimates corpses for the Allies in an alternate...

Little bit of a necro but, there's also Gravity Falls and Over the Garden Wall as possible inspirations. Both are cartoons. Gravity Falls is explicitly set in the PNW. Over the Garden Wall is not, from what I remember, but could definitely add a good spooky vibe.