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Carol

Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”

From Epic to Extra-extra-epic

Wertzone tracks the conversion of the 80s SF epic Chung Kuo from 8 books to 20! It definitely bumps up Chung Kuo on Walk into Mordor’s list of longest science-fiction series. Wingrove’s epic will probably be the longest single storyline (as opposed to “continuing adventures” etc) in the […]

Krampus on Infinite Earths

Comics Alliance presents Krampus on Infinite Earths:  “Can even the combined might of the Council of Cross-Time Krampuses, including fan-favorites like Krampula, Bat-Krampus, Gun-Toting ’90s Krampus, Teenage Mutant Ninja Krampus, Mortal Kombat Krampus, and the sultry Krampess rise up to stop the planet Earth from becoming a charred […]

80 Years of Genre Snubs

Horror movies are celebrating their hundredth year in 2010, with the anniversary of the 1910 Edison Lab’s production of Frankenstein.  Bloody Disgusting catalogs “some of the biggest…genre snubs in Oscar history, in Part Four of B-D’s ‘100 Years in Horror’ series.”