Wide Carnivorous Sky is on my list, but I just got through Burnt Black Suns and I need an emotional break. It's hard going sometimes but totally worth it. I'm about halfway through She Walks In Shadow and it's a little easier, but not by much!

You got that right, so that's why I keep expecting the other shoe to drop, thinking I've missed it...but Harry Houdini seems to have been both fascinating in his profession, thoughtful in his skepticism and a generally decent fellow.

Absolutely, it's influenced me in a lot of ways. The scope of the stories is something else, even today, and I have a lot of shelves given over to cosmic horror. Have you read any of Laird Barron's work? Highly recommend.

I *have* to know why flying a plane in Australia is a negative.

Pretty sure that's a tall tale, it's been established that Norman Rockwell was a ghost, hence he did not show up in photographs.

Even ones still alive today, modern day standards and all. You should never meet your heroes, as they say. I was more asking if Houdini punched a baby and I just hadn't heard.

Between Lovecraft being a voltron of racism and Doyle believing rabidly in cardboard fairies, will I eventually be disappointed in Houdini too? I’m about to start in on The Witch of Lime Street, since I’ve always really liked him in the accounts of his life I’ve heard so far.

I stopped watching this a while back (though I can hear it from the other room occasionally), and yet I'm happy that something so ludicrously awful remains on television. It's like if The Cape got six seasons and movie.

Hearing that we were getting new episodes of the X-files: That's great!
Chris Carter is involved: That's bad!

Oh wow. I went to an estate sale that was like this, normal little tract house on the outside. Inside one bedroom was hot pink shag and pink tinfoil and black wallpaper, the other one in the same exact thing but electric blue, all furniture to match. The bathroom was straight up black and silver insane deco and a…

It's *hella* creepy. Orphaned children get straight up eaten. Dahl didn't mess around. I can't imagine how the movie's going to handle the not-very-friendly giants.

Yes! Good one. He’s a traumatized outcast. It’s also heavily inferred by the town who-whore that he has a big dick. Bizarre movie.

This plus a tiny bit of ginger. So taste.

Nothing amazing, unfortunately! Just that sort of weird blustering stutter that comes when shutting someone down. My stepmother also snapped “!” at him, which I’d never seen happen, so the conversation moved on *real* fast. I’m sure she had a part in him not saying anything similar ever again.

I *know*, right? They’re lucky we can’t actually shoot bullets from our eyes.

My father bugged me regularly about my weight as I entered my teens, but he’s always been a vain, vain man and even at 15 I knew he was projecting a lot of his deep insecurities onto me. So whatever. My confidence is his mind killer.

Right? Tandy waved an unloaded gun around; Phil aimed a loaded gun at Tandy and clearly would have shot him if his temper had been up even a fraction more. And he's going to go absolutely crazy when the rest of the group figures out what an unrepentant bully he is.

People like Phil? Phil’s the worst! And the scariest part is he honestly believes he’s the good guy; that makes him extremely dangerous. He’d outright kill someone if he convinced himself it was justified. Carol saw it; Phil left Tandy in the desert with every intention of it killing him.

Aw, I liked the Fright Night remake. Good performance by Farrell and the kid playing Evil Ed, telling character moments, nice take on some of the classic vampire ‘rules’, interesting details throughout. Farrell tearing the house down because he couldn’t get himself invited in was brilliant. Tennant was the weakest…

One HAS to be Virtuosity. Although Russell Crowe as a plasticene lab-grown AI was pretty great.