One of the best things about visiting small towns is venturing into the horror section and finding unknown gems like this one. Ah yes, supernatural romance novels are nothing new. What a cover!!! What an inside blurb:
IF I DIE WHEN I’M YOUNG
I VOW I’LL COME BACK TO HAWKWOOD.
I’LL BE A SPIRIT,
AND MAKE PEOPLE DO TERRIBLE THINGS.
DO YOU BELIEVE ME, KATE,
DO YOU BELIEVE?
It’s getting so that I’m acclimated to the damsels in distress, and here and there it certainly is interesting to mix things up a little bit, so that’s on the menu today: something different. What looks very much like a hospital orderly, or a man in a chef outfit. It’s looking to me like he has got himself into a situation with the wrong kind of lady. Sometimes that can be loads of fun, but in this case it’s looking like the opposite.
Red Roses
of Death
The Great
Conspiracy
The Face with the
Three Crosses
If you wake up in a strange place, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises in unusual spots, you may need to make sure that your maid hasn’t been trying to poison you. (How perceptive of you. Yes that is Pola Negri in the chair.) – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends.
If you wake up chained to a table in a cell, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises in alarming places, it may be that you forgot to pay your guild dues to that hashish-using band of murderous thugs you belong to. – Action Here. – Ends 1/18/2012
If you wake up hanging in a tree, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises all over your body, it may be that you chose to collect butterflies on the wrong planet. – Action Here. – Ends 1/11/2012
If you wake up huddled in your closet, can’t remember how you got there, and have mysterious bruises all over your head, it may be that you lost control to the voices that you hear between stations on your radio set. – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends
If you wake up in the parlor, can’t remember the last few hours, have mysterious bruises on your arms and legs, and every window and mirror in the room is shattered, you may want to stop entertaining that mysteriously charismatic little girl who claims she can speak to the spirit world. – Action Here. – Ends 12/24/2011
If you wake up on the floor, can’t remember how you fell out of bed, and your neck is covered with mysterious bruises, that dimly remembered vision you had of a giant cat creeping into your room and looming over the end of your bed might not have been a dream. – Action Here. – Ends When it Ends
I don’t have a story for these. I just wanted to post them because they’re really remarkable. Photos from an opera house in Chicago from 1891. The photos say W.V. PENNINGTON CHICAGO E.R. WALKER across the bottom.
If I don’t post before then, I want to wish everyone out there on the internets a dark and short Darkest Day.
See more Vintage Photos here on Dark in the Dark.
Check this space for more weird photos on eBay.
I certainly am having fun making up captions for these pictures…
“Great news guys. Every single one of these icicles on this planet contains a beautiful girl! And with any luck, none of them will speak English!”
“Now Bernie, remember when we had that argument about what color you mean when you call someone ginger? THIS is ginger!”
“I don’t know… Maybe… Maybe somewhere on this planet lives a man so horrible that all these women’s hearts turned to ice and froze them like this, forever! Maybe that man is me. I’m not perfect. She does look a little familiar.”
ICE CITY of the GORGON
by RICHARD S. SHAVER and CHESTER S. GEIER
As Dark in the Dark approaches its three year anniversary on December 27, I’m going to try something new here and write some facts and figures about this blog and talk about 2011. If numbers bore you, don’t forget to skip to the bottom to see my favorite reads and music from 2011.
Since I started this blog in 2008, there have been over 460,000 page views by over 230,000 unique visitors. In that time, I’ve posted 419 items, which makes for a little over 2.5 posts per week. I think that’s pretty good. Here is a graph of visitors for 2011 (traffic numbers shown here are visitors per day):
Some things you might notice:
A map of where all you beautiful crazy people live. 40% of you are in the United States. The U.K. comes in second with 10% of all visitors. After that, the most visitors come from: Canada, Brazil, and Australia.
The most popular page on Dark in the Dark, even more popular than the home page, is my Internet Shrine to the lovely, mysterious, and terrifying Other Mother. This page garners 11% of all pageviews, with the home page clocking in at 5% of all pageviews.
As usual, my favorite reads are books published in different years.
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington (2009)
Infernal Devices by KW Jeter (1987)
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (1992)
Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
After I published this review, I got an email sincerely thanking me for my honesty. I also got a damage control note from the author. The review: Jason Dark Dime Novels by Guido Henkel
But only in the best of ways: Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate Series.
I haven’t actually reviewed it here yet, but my favorite album from 2011 is Chickens
Favorite not-2011 album: Welt by Ohgr (2001)
Vintage photo albums were something new I tried in 2011 and they have been a great success.
$137.41 is all the crazy cash I raked in, from December 7, 2010 to December 6, 2011. I’ve never seen stats on how much anybody makes from their blogs, so here it is. This total is mostly the result of book sales on Amazon. So if you’re ever thinking to yourself, “Gee! I keep hearing that book review bloggers get all the babes and rake in tons of dough.” You should probably start a blog where you review expensive kitchen toys instead, or find better ways to monetize your blog than I have (or get much more popular). So what’s the point of all this?
It is all about the love. Here’s looking forward to 2012. My flying monkey army and I hope to see more of you there.
Fhtagn Spoken Here.
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