Horror
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The Curator of Schlock #159: It! The Terror from Beyond Space
The Curator of Schlock #159 by Jeff Shuster It! The Terror from Beyond Space Huh? What’s beyond space? Your curator had a nightmare the other night. In my dream, there was a raccoon tapping at my bedroom window. I tried shooing it away, but the raccoon got real angry, scratching the glass with its claws.… Continue reading
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Episode 228: Readings from HP Lovecraft
Episode 228 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I present a quartet of readings from HP Lovecraft: “The Beast in the Cave,” “The Tree,” “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” and “From Beyond.” Our readers are Chris Booth, Elise… Continue reading
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Episode 227: HP Lovecraft Roundtable!
Episode 227 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I and my inestimable guests have a fine conversation about Lovecraft and his bizarre tales and his rather strange life and his exceptionally unfortunate opinions The participants included Elise McKenna, Tom… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #157: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires by Jeff Shuster Shaw Brothers meets Hammer. Did someone lose a bet? Hey, Halloweenies, it’s the time of year again, time for your Curator of Schlock to transform into the Curator of Shock! And I’ve got some scary movies this month. At the behest of his editor, John… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #45: In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
Buzzed Books #45 by Shawn Whittington In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe For those who savor Gothic lit, this anthology satisfies. Edited by scholar Leslie S. Klinger, this collection curates classical chilling tales, often of a dark Victorian flavor, written by literary authors such as Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. P. Lovecraft, and… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #144: Satan’s School for Girls
The Curator of Schlock #144 by Jeff Shuster Satan’s School for Girls (Satan has a school…and it’s for girls!) You’re a Curator of Schlock and you don’t know how you wound up in this position, doing weekly reviews for B movies, some of which wouldn’t have passed muster for USA Up All Night back when… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #133: Nude for Satan
The Curator of Schlock #133 by Jeff Shuster Nude for Satan (This movie makes less sense than Lost Highway.) So I watched Olympus Has Fallen last night. That’s the one where Gerard Butler saves the President of the United States from North Korean terrorists. I like that movie. Butler kills the terrorists, saves the United… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #132: Daughters of Satan
The Curator of Schlock #132 by Jeff Shuster Daughters of Satan Satan, leave our daughters alone! Just leave them alone! Not for nothing, but when my Blu-ray player did the whole Grace Notes thing for my Brotherhood of Satan DVD, it read the disc as The Essential Bugs Bunny Volume 1. I guess that’s… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #131: The Brotherhood of Satan
The Curator of Schlock #131 by Jeff Shuster The Brotherhood of Satan Not a brotherhood I’d like to belong to. Not one bit. It’s time for another Satan Awareness Month here at the Museum of Schlock, that time of year where I get serious and try to warn the public of the dangers of associating… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #119: Phantasm
The Curator of Schlock #119 by Jeff Shuster Phantasm The scariest movie ever made? Maybe. We had the deaths of many cultural icons last week. David Bowie. Alan Rickman. Grizzly Adams. Not to discount any of those, but they ended up overshadowing the death of Angus Scrimm the weekend prior. I think all of us… Continue reading
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