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Which is strange because it's the only piece of artwork in the book that's actually any good

Red and darkness cloud your vision, but then they fade away to reveal a new place that is at once gleaming white and bathed in shadow. You all meet before the judge of the dead...

It would be nice if there was an actually good version of Dreams in the Witch House EDIT: Also, it would be cool if someone did The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a movie

Here's another weird idea that shows up in a couple of places. In both Metalocalypse and the last two seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 there's a bit about water being used as a recording medium. Are they refrencing something?

I'm struck with the (probably meaningless) concordance between the speech about Hell from Jacob's Ladder and some of the tenets of the Hellraiser universe, with the whole demons-to-some0angels-to-others thing and the idea of the distinction between torment and bliss being a matter of perspective

That reminds me of a sword that appears a parable told by the Taoist philosopher Lieh Tzu; The sword, "Container of Light" is invisible and intangible, and a person struck with it - which can be done without even waking them - merely feels achy in the affected body parts the next day

I will have to look into that. Thanks.

Or it's the START of wacky adventures in Ponyville

Don't forget Warhammer 40000. The Imperium are way more Nazi-ish than the empire from Star Wars (with a little bit of Axis Japan mixed in too). And Khorne and the Necrons are vaguely fascist as well. So you get to kill Nazis if you play the game as Tzeentch, Slannesh, or Nurgle (the de facto...

The Imperial Dynasty of America - Call of Cthulhu. Four years after the events of The Repairer of Reputations, an outbreak of mass insanity (a la In the Mouth of Madness) has swallowed the world, and Hildred Castaigne has been crowned king after all; his institutionalization and subsequent death...

Any mention of The Cure always makes me think of that South Park episode where Robert Smith fights a giant mechanical Barbra Streisand

Started reading The Clockwork Rocket. it vaguely rem8nds me of a non-horror version of lovecraft crossed with Flatland. (Lovecraft because the protagonists are kind of shoggoth-like and the geometry of their universe is fundamentally different from ours. Flatland because the geometry is...

Closed Timelike Curves - A group of urban explorers discover an anamolous stable wormhole inside of a long abandoned gym. edit: both ends of the wormhole are in the gym, but they are desynchronized in time, allowing travel into the past or future by repeatedly entering the wormhole from the...

Wait. There's more. Spooky season is NOT over. This year's election promises to be more frightening than a hundred Halloweens. For Election Day I've saved the movie In The Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter's tale of mass insanity, and a world where sane and insane have switched places. As a...

Second Half of election playlist End of the World Chocolate Rain

My playlist for the upcoming election: Symphony of Destruction Number of the Beast Immortal Corruptor New Dark Age Bad Moon Rising

Friday the 13th part 1 is particularly scary because (soiler alert) (and in stark contrast to its sequels and to most other slasher films in general) the killer is someone I could imagine actually existing. A figurative monster like Pamela is all too plausible, an actual monster like her son not...

I haven't seen or read it but from what I've heard about it it sounds closer to Clark Ashton Smith's "The Metamorphosis of Earth" than to Lovecraft

Now I'm watching Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Due to the extreme tameness of the source material the Mel Brooks horror spoofs are arguably as scary or scarier than the movies they're parodying. Increases in permissiveness and advances in special effects also play a role. 1930's Universal...

25.) Tome The most readily available english language version of the Necronomicon is the so-called "Carter Necronomicon", a re-printing of Randolph Carter's personal translation of the Necronomicon which was published after his writing became popular following his disappearance. It differs...