Tag Archive for 'terror'

Pin-Up of the Week: Astounding Stories March 1936

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Pinup of the Week: Terror Tales July 1938

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Mmmmmmanufaturing duplicates of a hot redhead with a strange drill. Fascinating.

HELL’S STATION MASTER
FEATURE-LENGTH
HORROR NOVEL

by ARTHUR LEO ZAGAT

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DEATH IS A WOMAN
A BLOOD-CHILLING
MYSTERY NOVELETTE

by WAYNE ROGERS

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In the Gloaming

If you haven’t yet, you should definitely check out In the Gloaming, which is a new British horror-comedy audio play available as podcast. The first episode is called Dead Skinny, and WOW it’s really amazingly creepy and awesome. It’s a story about two people who are maybe a little too competitive. It goes too far in the first 30 seconds, and it stays there. Mmmmmmmm.

The next episode is due out on Friday 27th November. If you like old horror radio shows like Inner Sanctum or Weird Circle, you’ll especially really love this. It’s like the best of Inner Sanctum but with all the nasty bits left in. Go listen to it now.

There is more information about In the Gloaming at their Wordpress site.

Check it out!

Queen of Darkness 1: Ghostella a.k.a. Heidi Martinuzzi

This the first Queen of Darkness post. Check here for more information on Queens of Darkness. Now on to Ghostella!

I first noticed Ghostella when she was the pale and frightening host of “Ghostella’s Haunted Tomb of… Horror and… Terrible things” or whatever it was that episode. I didn’t care. I was just waiting for her to turn the creepy music on. MMMmmmmm. With enough makeup, Ghostella can pass for a living person, under which guise she pretends to be Heidi Martinuzzi, founder and editor of Pretty Scary dot Net, a blog “For Women in Horror, by Women in Horror”. Our favorite episode of Ghostella’s Tomb was Noir D’Ivoire.

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Little did this prepare us for her truly terrifying 2009 role in a movie by Stacy Ponder, (a.k.a. Final Girl) titled “Deadly Dress 4: Never A Bride“. Her role as a crazy lady in a pink dress who menaces the bride and then later meets an untimely death at the hands (or should we say hem) of a haunted wedding dress really made us sit up and pay attention. Wow. Like Nabokov writing Lolita in his third language, Ghostella is able to play a normal person playing a modern day witch in a pink dress with a horrible blond wig and kill it! If I was Paula Abdul, I’d be dancing.

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Finally, Ghostella has an animal hat. This will make sense later, trust me.

Ghostella's Animal Hat

Ghostella's Animal Hat

Do you have anyone you would nominate for Queen of Darkness 2009? Leave a note in the comments! Be sure to provide reasons why you think so in the comment.

Pinup of the Week: Dime Mystery January 1939

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DETECTIVE NOVELETTES OF WEIRD MYSTERY

THE RAG DOLL KILLER
by EDITH & EJLER JACOBSON

THE CASE OF THE FROZEN CORPSE
by RAY CUMMINGS

THE CHIMES OF DEATH
by RUSSELL GRAY

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