Entries from October 2012 ↓

DVD Review: Dolls (1987)

It doesn't take too much imagination to figure out what this 80s horror is about. That's right, you've guessed it, dolls; but these dolls are not the common all garden type of dolls that you see little girls pushing around in prams. These dolls have attitude. Try pushing these dolls and they push back--hard...

Walk On The Water

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.oldtimeradiodvd.com

Walk On The Water

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.oldtimeradiodvd.com

Walk On The Water

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.oldtimeradiodvd.com

Walk On The Water

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.oldtimeradiodvd.com

Walk On The Water

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror.oldtimeradiodvd.com

Public Domain Online Text: Glamr by Sabine Baring-Gould

At the beginning of the eleventh century there stood, a little way up the Valley of Shadows in the north of Iceland, a small farm, occupied by a worthy bonder, named Thorhall, and his wife. The farmer was not exactly a chieftain, but he was well enough connected to be considered respectable; to back up his gentility he possessed numerous flocks of sheep and a goodly drove of oxen. Thorhall would have been a happy man but for one circumstance--his sheepwalks were haunted....

Public Domain Online Text: Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story by Sabine Baring-Gould

I had just come back to England, after having been some years in India, and was looking forward to meet my friends, among whom there was none I was more anxious to see than Sir Francis Lynton. We had been at Eton together, and for the short time I had been at Oxford before entering the Army we had been at the same college. Then we had been parted. He came into the title and estates of the family in Yorkshire on the death of his...

Public Domain Online Text: H.P. by Sabine Baring-Gould

The river Vezere leaps to life among the granite of the Limousin, forms a fine cascade, the Saut de la Virolle, then after a rapid descent over mica-schist, it passes into the region of red sandstone at Brive, and swelled with affluents it suddenly penetrates a chalk district, where it has scooped out for itself a valley between precipices some two to three hundred feet high....

Public Domain Online Text: A Professional Secret by Sabine Baring-Gould

Mr. Leveridge was in a solicitor's office at Swanton. Mr. Leveridge had been brought up well by a sensible father and an excellent mother. His principles left nothing to be desired. His father was now dead, and his mother did not reside at Swanton, but near her own relations in another part of England...

Mockingbird Lane


I’m surprised how much I enjoyed the pilot Halloween Special, because it sounded like such a crummy idea on paper. From the casting of Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, the name change, and making it an hour-long dramedy, I was absolutely dreading the final product. But I’m happy to be wrong on all counts.


Although Mockingbird Lane has far more in common with The Addams Family (which was more my thing) than the Munsters, Bryan Fuller still manages to capture its spirit: a family that cares about each other. He skillfully balances the characters trying to preserve their humanity with a healthy dose of dark humor. Writing comedy is hard, but horror-comedy is even harder. While the original series was mostly sight gags and tame one-liners, Fuller's version has Boy Scouts attacked by a werewolf and jokes about a serial killer stuffing bodies into the walls of the Munsters' new home, it definitely takes a pair of stones to write stuff like that for a family-oriented show.


The ratings were a respectable but unspectacular 5.4 million viewers -- especially when you consider the hefty 10 million dollar production budget. Seems unlikely that NBC would order more episodes and it’s too costly for the SyFy Channel. A shame it probably won't find a home...

Mockingbird Lane


I’m surprised how much I enjoyed the pilot Halloween Special, because it sounded like such a crummy idea on paper. From the casting of Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, the name change, and making it an hour-long dramedy, I was absolutely dreading the final product. But I’m happy to be wrong on all counts.


Although Mockingbird Lane has far more in common with The Addams Family (which was more my thing) than the Munsters, Bryan Fuller still manages to capture its spirit: a family that cares about each other. He skillfully balances the characters trying to preserve their humanity with a healthy dose of dark humor. Writing comedy is hard, but horror-comedy is even harder. While the original series was mostly sight gags and tame one-liners, Fuller's version has Boy Scouts attacked by a werewolf and jokes about a serial killer stuffing bodies into the walls of the Munsters' new home, it definitely takes a pair of stones to write stuff like that for a family-oriented show.


The ratings were a respectable but unspectacular 5.4 million viewers -- especially when you consider the hefty 10 million dollar production budget. Seems unlikely that NBC would order more episodes and it’s too costly for the SyFy Channel. A shame it probably won't find a home...

Mockingbird Lane


I’m surprised how much I enjoyed the pilot Halloween Special, because it sounded like such a crummy idea on paper. From the casting of Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, the name change, and making it an hour-long dramedy, I was absolutely dreading the final product. But I’m happy to be wrong on all counts.


Although Mockingbird Lane has far more in common with The Addams Family (which was more my thing) than the Munsters, Bryan Fuller still manages to capture its spirit: a family that cares about each other. He skillfully balances the characters trying to preserve their humanity with a healthy dose of dark humor. Writing comedy is hard, but horror-comedy is even harder. While the original series was mostly sight gags and tame one-liners, Fuller's version has Boy Scouts attacked by a werewolf and jokes about a serial killer stuffing bodies into the walls of the Munsters' new home, it definitely takes a pair of stones to write stuff like that for a family-oriented show.


The ratings were a respectable but unspectacular 5.4 million viewers -- especially when you consider the hefty 10 million dollar production budget. Seems unlikely that NBC would order more episodes and it’s too costly for the SyFy Channel. A shame it probably won't find a home...

Public Domain Online Text: The Red-Haired Girl by Sabine Baring-Gould

In 1876 we took a house in one of the best streets and parts of B——. I do not give the name of the street or the number of the house, because the circumstances that occurred in that place were such as to make people...

Public Domain Online Text: The Mother of Pansies by Sabine Baring-Gould

Anna Voss, of Siebenstein, was the prettiest girl in her village. Never was she absent from a fair or a dance. No one ever saw her abroad anything but merry. If she had her fits of bad temper, she kept them for her mother, in the secrecy of the house. Her voice was like that of...