This is just a little thing, but that scene with Poe and Finn is outside, on a green world, under normal daylight. It looks so natural, so ordinary. Nothing exotic or heightened about it. I love it.

Maybe it’s just me, but for me, Joe Hill seems to do better with short fiction than with novels. I liked Heart Shaped Box just fine, NOS4A2 rather less, but I still think “Pop Art” is one of the best short stories I’ve ever read, genre or not.

Sandman Mystery Theatre, starring real-life marrieds Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel.

This is one of those films that becomes less interesting to me the more I learn about it. I had hoped for something that captured the creeping, understated dread of the best Edwardian ghost stories. But this seems to draw less from, say, Edith Wharton or the (unrelated) Jameses, than it does from GDT’s vision of what…

A dear friend who recently passed on was an avid collector of pressed pennies. My wife and I still get sad when we see those machines.

For a number of reasons, I have divested myself of them, but I once owned a complete collection of 1st Edition AD&D books, including the first run of Deities & Demigods (with the Cthulhu mythos chapter) and the World of Greyhawk boxed set.

Given what has come before, especially in S2/Asylum, anything was possible.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am literally stepping out the door to go to my local comics shop to find this right now. Thank you!

Everything about this show is so on the nose that the handful of inventive moments really stand out. I rather liked that the junior vampires were basically filters for the Countess. I liked seeing Urban Lights make an appearance. I liked the music choices.

I think you posted the wrong video. Or was that the “chilling” clip with the “terrifying” entity?

It looks like we’ll lose a bit of Venice, Long Beach and Huntington Beach. I am remarkably OK with that.

Yup. No one cares. Do you ever see cosplay of this IP anymore? Fan art? Tattoos? I didn’t think so.

Nope, you are not alone. I hated it for ripping off Dune and for cynically substituting visual pizzaz, which I thought looked just cartoonish, for anything approaching an interesting plot. No one behaved rationally, it was absurdly long for what little story was told, and it was utterly unaware of the outdated and…

“...the poor man’s Jensen Ackles.”

If the team at Amazon had taken the care to present a list of 100 well written pieces of human, humane literature, all of which make a speculative leap somewhere as part of their delivery of entertaining, edifying stories which bridge the gaps between us and show us our own world through a different lens, they could…

Don’t get me started on the lack of the supernatural here. Any reading list that leaves MR James off in favor of Ernest Cline is garbage.

If this list were framed not as the speculative fiction bucket list but rather as a sort of grab bag of 100 titles from amongst the thousands of worthy books waiting to be read, I could let it slide. But that’s not what Amazon has done; they’ve made this ex cathedra proclamation and their consumers are expected not to…

I was so incensed by JG Ballard’s absence that I didn’t even realize Kelly Link was missing. This list can cram it with walnuts.

Well, they left out anything by JG Ballard, for one.