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May 20, 2013
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Troll (1986). Composer: Richard Band.
“What is the difference between trolls and men?”
Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt
This film has a look to it that’s like something like Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Troll tells a menacing, impish modern fairy tale. It’s a film with an equally impish and fanciful soundtrack. I can imagine the fae of artist Brian Froud’s book, Faeries…,
A few months back, right here on the good ‘ol Innsmouth Free Press, I told you all about the wonderful radio dramas being put out by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. You can find that piece here, should you need a refresher. Well the mad geniuses over at the HPLHS are back at it again, unleashing a whole new batch of radio Lovecraftian …
Sometimes, the day job gives you pearls. I was sitting in a seminar on Childhood Anxiety when I realized I was looking at something important for me as a writer. Here was the dais upon which all the boogeymen and terror tales were based. Here was the essence of Lovecraft laid out in clinical terms….
Everyone has anxiety in life. Call it stress, if you …
Reviews · Supernatural · TV Shows
[spoilers ahoy for several seasons]
Tagline: Dean finds himself trapped in a video game with Charlie. Which is a bit like Hell, only without the fun.
Recap: Recap of the Carver Edlund series, Charlie, Kevin, and the boring Trials.
Cut to Now. We’re in an office where WWII swing jazz is playing and posters on the walls say things like: “America Calling: Take Your Place in …
Here’s another Found on the Net and here’s another crowd-sourcing campaign. I know – when isn’t there one?
Canadian developer Precursor Games has launched a crowd-funding campaign for Shadow of the Eternals, an episodic action/adventure game that is described as “mind-altering psychological horror.” The game will be delivered in downloadable “episodes.” They are looking for a big chunk of change: $1.5 million.
The pilot episode for the game begins when a detective arrives at the site …
They’ll kill you and I’ll be here in the woods all alone and abandoned.
[spoilers ahead]
Recap: You know, I thought that we were done with this recap business once and for all. But no. We get yet another long-winded dissertation on how we got here before we get to the quote above.
Anyway, the quote is done against the backdrop of rolling hills with some …
Re-reading Cthulhu Mythos fiction is not something I am apt to do. After reading literally hundreds of stories, ranging from canon tales to fanzine pastiches, I find little call to go back and experience it again. A pleasant exception is The Great White Space (1975) by Basil Copper. I read it probably twenty-five years ago, back in my Call of Cthulhu days, when my biggest …
Articles · Dr. Who · Grimm · Once Upon a Time · Supernatural · TV Shows
This week, we have more news and spoilers about upcoming books, Once Upon a Time, Doctor Who, sci-fi series, and Supernatural. You can access previous spoilers columns here.
You can still help our publisher Silvia Moreno-Garcia crowdsource her novel Young Blood, to be published by Innsmouth Free Press if she’s successful. Think near-future Aztec vampires and narcoterrorists in Mexico City. …
