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Pinup of the Week: Midnight Mystery Stories December 2, 1922

Midnight Mystery Stories 1922 12 02

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

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Vintage Photo Album: Expert Demonstrations

The theme for this week’s Vintage Photo Album is “Expert Demonstrations and Sometimes Inexpert Demonstrations“.

Mom always told me to lead with my strengths. She would say, “Little monster sour ball, hark: It is proper, when interacting with the outside world, to lead with your strengths.” So it is with that thought in the space that my heart would normally be found, that I present to you the most amazing duo of photos I have located on the Internets as of this day. Behold:

Here we have a girdle and a rubber inner tube.

Here is something we can do with them today.

Hmmm. This seems most inexpert to me. I would conjecture that the man may have the wrong idea. The lady has clearly lost interest. Worse, his struggles have unseated his hat. Gentlemen! There are books to help with your eduction in these matters. Read them! Auctions hereand here. Expire when they expire.

Lovely!

Another lovely snake charmer showing how it is done. I really adore snake charmers. Auction here – Expires 9/19

The Only Way to Subdue a Giant Flying Monkey

Obviously demonstrated with a much less dangerous tame giant flying monkey, we see here how to subdue one of these normally unpredictable and often dangerous creatures. Yes, a lady is usually necessary for success. auction here – Expires 9/19.

Another Expert Demonstration

Another expert demonstration for your education. Auction here. – Expires 9/19

Expert Opinion

After the professor, the doctor, the military, and the mysterious foreigner in the fez thoroughly inspected the subject, they agreed: It’s Myrna Loy! MMMMMMMMMMMMyrna Loy. They should have used a Geiger counter. – Auction here – Expires when it expires.

Expert Demonstration

An excellent demonstration of proper comportment in this particular eventuality. Note the precise posture utilized by our obviously well-educated subject. Applause! Auction already ended, but those curious for more information on this gem should click here.

Lucille Ball Shows Us How It's Done

A sight for sore eyes. Auction here – ends 10/2.

Book Review: Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert

Cover of Season of the Witch by Natasha MostertWelcome to my first book review here at Dark in the Dark. It sure is dark in here. Today I am reviewing Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert, and I’m going to tell you up front that I liked it.

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking with a pen name like Natasha Mostert, there is going to be some serious cheese factor. Like maybe all the characters will have names like “Willow” or “Speed”, or maybe there will be some bodice-ripping. Most likely the men will have grey eyes and chiseled features. I have to admit that when I grabbed this book off the shelf at my local used book store, I was expecting it to contain some cheese for sure. And I’m not ashamed to say that I wanted some.

Here’s our inventory: Redhead? Check. Computer hacker? Check. Secret government experiments? Check. Set in London? Check. Main character named after heavy-hitter angel? Check. Mysterious, maybe kinky witch sisters? Check. The word “Eroticism” used at least once on the cover? Check.

Here’s the layout: Gabriel is a remote viewer who has become a computer hacker and is approached by his ex to find out what happened to someone who has mysteriously disappeared. The missing person investigation leads to a pair of “solar witches” who play a game of cat-and-mouse with our man Gabriel, while he tries to solve what is most likely a murder.

OK and with all that you might have a winner that’s entertaining, and you might have a loser that’s entertaining. Or you might have a loser that’s a loser. Luckily we have a winner. This book is a lot like William Gibson meets Anne Rice. By Anne Rice, I mean Anne Rice precisely at the first Mayfair witch book, and by William Gibson I mean William Gibson like maybe at around Count Zero. The writing is good but you’re not going to think back and savor this book for it. Also, at some point I was able to see how the story was probably going to wrap up, but there were enough surprises that I still wasn’t disappointed. There IS some cheese here and there, and some of it was quite tasty. Mmmmm. Luckily it doesn’t get thick enough to spoil the broth.

Creepy Factor: 2 out of 5
Suspense Factor: 4 out of 5
Weird Erotic Tension Factor: 4 out of 5

Final result: “Yesterday I didn’t know what a solar witch was and now I are one!” Season of the Witch was not good enough to make my “must read” list, but it left me curious enough to want to check out more by this author in the future. I would definitely recommend it to anybody looking for a fun read.

Season of the Witch – Natasha Mostert – New American Library – 2007

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The flying monkeys let our technician out for a minute and he snuck away into the light of day. Thanks for your patience during this difficult transition.
I ated Tinkerbell.

Fhtagn Spoken Here.

... the attic, a vast raftered length lighted only by small blinking windows in the gable ends, and filled with a massed wreckage of chests, chairs, and spinning-wheels which infinite years of deposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes.
The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft




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