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R.I.P. Bingo ~ Haunted House

To misquote a tagline, what’s better than one haunted house? Four haunted houses! I’m not against remakes and I had the opportunity recently to watch some classics back-to-back with their turn-of-the-century remakes. How do they stack up? House on Haunted Hill (1959) and 13 Ghosts (1960) were both directed by William Castle and written by […]

Classics Club Spin #28

Look at me posting twice in a week like some kind of blogger . . . It’s Classics Club Spin time! Classic Club is a group of readers and bloggers who have pledged to read 50 classic books in five years. More information on Classics Club.My Classics Club list. Deadline: 12/14/2024 For a Classics Club […]

Monday Miscellanea, 10/11/21

Reading I’m trying out StoryGraph. I don’t have much there at the moment. I thought about waiting until the beginning of the year to start a fresh account, but where’s the fun in that? Despite it being the #Frightfall read-a-long, I put aside The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu. There is a strange disconnect between […]

Monday Miscellanea, 10/4/21

Getting Back to It Last Tuesday, we went out to dinner at a restaurant. I know, a lot of people have been doing restaurants for a while now. Eric and I have been cautious, but we’re also just not likely to go out very often. In 2018–2019, we were maybe eating at a restaurant once […]

R.I.P. Bingo ~ Spooky Music

I have a pretty big Spotify playlist that I call 31 Flavors of October. It’s a combination of goth, industrial, movie soundtracks, and other somewhat “spooky” music. I hit random a just let it go. Here’s a sampler: “The Olde HeadBoard” by Rasputina, from How We Quit the Forest, 1998 “The Haunting” by Nosferatu, from […]

Reading Challenge Check-In, 9/30/21

Haven’t done a proper reading challenge check-in since the beginning of July. I’ve been blogging so much about movies lately that one might even wonder if I still read! I do, but I really enjoy movies too.

Monday Miscellanea, 9/27/21

What’s Going On? The power supply on my desktop died on Saturday, so I’m using the laptop for everything. Definitely the weaker, smaller computer, but I sure am glad we have it. Eric ordered my a new power supply and it should get here next week. In times past, we would have gone to Fry’s […]

R.I.P. Bingo ~ Vampire

“Clarimonde” by Théophile Gautier – My original Classics Club pick for September was The Devil’s Elixirs by E. T. A. Hoffmann. At about 30% of the way through, I realized that I had kind of lost track of characters. The story is *very* Gothic with many characters and secret relationships between characters. For the time […]

Monday Miscellanea, 9/20/21

Getting Back to It We’re just a couple days from the equinox as I write this. The weather this summer has actually been pretty nice, but the cooler nights are wonderful. I’ve had my Halloween decorations up for a while and have been enjoying the fall reading events. (And watching events. ‘Tis the season for […]

R.I.P. Bingo ~ Creepy Fungus

“Come into My Cellar” by Ray Bradbury I first read this story when I was about ten years-old. It put me off mushrooms for a long while. Not that mushrooms were a common ingredient in my mother’s cooking, but I was well into college before I began to appreciate mushrooms on my pizza and an […]