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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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Miss Massingberd and the Vampire by Tina Rath ★★☆☆☆ That was a nice précis for gothic vampire story but too abrupt to stand on its own. The biography of the author was impressive, I would try her again.
La Diente by Nancy Kilpatrick ★★★☆☆
That was a cultural vampiric spin-off off the chupacabra legend. While I enjoyed the female-empowerment-under-desperate-circumstances aspect I took off one star for the dog killing.
The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea by Tanya Huff ★★★½☆
This felt inspired by the much loved 1996 episode of the X-Files, Quagmire. The whole thing had a happy PG13 spooky episodic feel to it.
When Gretchen Was Human by Mary A. Turzillo ★★★½☆
Old ladies are wise ladies and Miss Trilby knew what she was talking about. That said I think Melanie made the right call to take an odd lover and hope for a better life. This quote from Miss Trilby was also good: “Disaster becomes you. Or is it the nearness of death bid us breed, like romance in a concentration camp.”
Homewrecker by Poppy Z. Brite ★☆☆☆☆ You have to wonder about a farm town where the only bar is a drag bar. Maybe the whole thing was meant to be the world seen in reverse? This is my second Poppy Brite story, His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood also had lots of sex but with flair, voodoo, and class. I did not enjoy this sad truck stop story.
The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice ★★★½☆
A short HEA gothic romance Anne Rice style, with evocative flashbacks and graceful atmospheric writing. God I used to love Anne Rice, from The Vampire Lestat to Pandora, deep into the tome of The Witching Hour, all the way to the time travel experience that was Cry to Heaven. I even brought her naughty Roquelaure books to slumber parties, you have never seen such a quiet bunch of teenage girls as those caught in the pages of the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy.
Absolutely. He will get weirder and louder as he ages.I know I shouldn’t prejudge movies based solely on trailers, but, wow, this looks terrible.
It really, really does. But there’s a slight chance it could be so bad it’s good.
You mean that hadn’t happened yet?
Nicolas Cage stars in an embarrassing rip off of Mortal Combat and Predator. Sigh, it does look like a fun movie you watch with friends, pizza, and shots.https://youtu.be/M3LAZq04TlE
Another Dune Trilogy begins this month: Dune: The Duke of Caladan. After I finish this reread I would rather go back and continue in chronological order. But it’s tempting.
Sold out. Centipede Press is also coming out with one soon for a similar price. It will be hard, if not impossible, to compete with Sam Weber’s art.
The new collectible $2 bill. It’s not Star Trek money, it’s not Monopoly money, it real patriotic currency. Sigh, it does look cool but I can’t get behind patriotic space anymore than corporate Australian space.https://proudpatriots.com/pages/new-s...
Good clarification.Fatman might be the best Christmas action movie since Die Hard. Or crap, sometimes it’s hard to tell: https://youtu.be/Z64XvPERZ50
Finished watching American Murder on Netflix. At the end there’s a moment where you try to distance yourself, where you think these things are rare... Then the black screen says This happens every day in America.
Shit.
The Lost Boys of the Bronx: https://youtu.be/k2yfp6oj2hwAlright, it does not look as good as Lost Boys but it’s a PG vampire effort for Halloween.
Soulmates looks watchable if it doesn’t go too dark too fast. If there was a perfect love match test I would take it and try on the results. I would not prepledge a damn thing though.
I think the kamikaze fighting lead the US to consider extremes in dealing with Japan. Glad they passed on the carpet bombing, what was done was landmark enough.
I had plans for the day, then Netflix released Evil. I am on episode ten.
