Christopher Lee on Black Magic, Anton LaVey, Ian Fleming and Dracula
Christopher Lee talks about black magic, playing a blasphemous priest in To The Devil A Daughter, Anton LaVey, Ian Fleming and Dracula in a 1975 interview.
Anything Can Happen In Riverdale
I never expected to be reading Archie comics. Archie Andrews’ irresistible appeal to ladies mystified me and I came late to an appreciation for soap operas and straight melodrama. Then there was residual stuff around romance, a punk rock hostility towards the wholesome squares, a dash of internalized […]
“The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities”
Get your own copy of the Satanic Temple’s The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities!
“The truth about the dungeon master who disappeared in the steam tunnels”
Jason Louv writes about James Dallas Egbert III, who seemed to have disappeared in Michigan State University’s steam tunnels in 1979 and who became the focus of a panic about Dungeons & Dragons. “When Egbert vanished, his parents hired William Dear, a private detective, to locate him. Dear […]
“A History of British Folk Horror”
Spectacular Optical has an overview of British folklore in horror film and television. (Thanks, Colin!)
Slate’s 25 Best Horror Films of the 2000s
Slate has a nicely ecletic and thoughtful list of the best horror films of the ’00s, including many Midnight Madness favorites and films by Rob Zombie, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Sam Raimi, Tomas Alfredson, David Cronenberg, William Friedkin, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.
The Cultural Gutter 