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I ♥ Halloween. I am the creator, editor, and keeper of Halloween Love. Although you'll find new creeps about helping me to maintain these macabre archives of dread.

[Something More]

Ghost of a Dog

It’s been a while since I posted a deeply personal article and this one charts right there at the top. I have an affinity for tracking down rare and especially sad, beautiful music and I have a friend with similar tastes in music, who introduced me to “Ghost of a Dog” by Edie Brickell &

[Reviews]

The River — Good, Stupid Fun

The River television series, which is yet another shaky, found-footage venture from the Paranormal Activity guys, was surprisingly fun. I would chalk this up to being a guilty pleasure because the writing and dialogue were painfully stupid. From characters that don’t understand a word of Spanish, to being able to speak it fluently after a

[Polls]

The Worst Horror Clichés

A tongue-in-cheek poll of the worst horror clichés: Illustration by Wesley Boyd.

[Movies]

The Creepiest Moments in Horror

And when I say creepy, I mean otherworldly, skin-crawling, hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up, pineal-gland-tingling creepy. Like great comedy, pace, subtext, and multiple layers is key to really frightening moments in horror. I’m not going to make this a drawn out countdown to the #1 creepiest moment or anything like that, so I’ll just jump in with what inspired

[Bite-sized Horror]

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Fearless Vampire Killers is part comedy, part horror, but in all honesty, the “comedy” aspect of it (while I did have a few laughs) actually just adds to the creepiness of it. Even more eerie, was to watch Sharon Tate (real life wife of director Roman Polanski, who plays the female lead Sarah) perform in

[Reviews]

True Detective

Amazing, no. Beautiful, no. Brilliant, no. Dread, no. Ecstasy, no. Fascinating, no. Haunting, no. Horrifying, no. Incredible, no. Melancholy, no. Riveting, no. Shocking, no. We could go through every word in the dictionary and we’re still simply going to fall short of describing a masterpiece like True Detective. After Breaking Bad was over, I thought

[TV]

Millennium

Millennium is another unfortunate example of an amazing, superb TV show being canceled. Millennium is often described as an X-Files spin-off, but that’s really not accurate. In fact if anything, an X-Files episode, appropriately named “Millennium” (season 7, episode 4), was a spin-off of Millennium or a hybrid, clash of the two shows. Despite several

[Bite-sized Horror]

My God, It’s Full of Stars

I very much enjoyed 2010, the sequel to 2001 and hope one day that they make 2061 and 3001 into films as well.