Scary Books, Kiddies! The Mind Parasites .  By Colin Wilson.  Bantam, 1968.  First published by Arkham House, 1967.            This harr...

As I settle in, this week before Halloween, to reread Ray Bradbury's magical Something Wicked This Way Comes for the 30th time, I want...

   This was my first attempt at piling up a graveyard-full of Halloweenish songs. It ain't been available for a while due to host issues...

  Scary Books, Kiddies! The Wolfen .  By Whitley Strieber.  Bantam Books, 1979. Copyright 1978. This, Strieber’s first novel, made a splash...

This survey of American horror master Edgar Allan Poe appeared in the September 1, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes . See you on Friday, fellow ...

 As you can read on the CD cover, this is my 20013 Halloween comp. It was linked with an outdated host. Brought back from the grave, here ar...

Scary Books, Kiddies! The Halloween Book .  By Jack Maguire. Berkley, 1992. I bought this slim tome at the south OKC Albertson’s on Decem...

The 1983 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's stupendous chiller  Something Wicked This Way Comes  had so much  going for it -- most notab...

  Yep, the  2010 Spook-Tacular  was dead.  An ex-comp, if you will.  When I learned the link had died, I opened the crypt and cleaned things...

Scary Books, Kiddies!   Lovecraft:   A Look Behind the “Cthulhu Mythos.”   By Lin Carter.   Ballantine, 1972.   Cover art by Gervasio Gall...

I dare ya! Or the house ... Of course, these are from the 1964 coloring book ... See ya!  Sorry to be late!   

 Yep, all this month we're going to post new Halloween comps, and re-post a couple whose links have gone dead. Going dead ... what a con...

Be here every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for spooky or fun things with a Halloween tilt! Here's one of my costumes from around 1964. ...

On February 20, 1983, ABC-TV presented the first broadcast of Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Above is the two-page ad in TV Guide . Did yo...

We already knew that! But now we have the National Enquirer  to back us up!  (That's the December 14, 1993 issue.) Of course, you could ...

  The above two images are from the June 9, 1991 Oklahoman . ... And so are these!  All from the same ish, flailing about to get people to s...

They're both from the January 6, 1980 Tulsa World .  As we know to our disgust, Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent score did not win the ...

This December 1989 clipping from the Tulsa World 's supplement TV News  elucidates a "first" which isn't that big a deal....

Here are the pertinent (that is, Trekkian) pages from the July 24, 1993 TV Guide : And to round off the post, the above image is the readers...