from dusk til dawn…

... well, maybe not til dawn, but now that summer is upon us, here in Chicago, you don't have to watch your scary movies indoors!!! Motel Bar and the Chicago Park Districts have you covered. Creepy highlights of their schedulesMotel Bar double features:07/18 American...

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Cthulhu Cake

Cthulhu4, a photo by The Bleeding Heart Bakery on Flickr.My recent search for pictures of wedding cakes lead me to this, made by Bleeding Heart Bakery. All I can say is wow. Cthulhu is much more dapper a gentleman than I ever expected.

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Carrie….My favorite Prom Queen

Tragic tragic Carrie.  I love this flick.  It is arguably the best adaptation to film of Stephen King's books.  It has so many nightmarish moments: bullies, getting your period in school, bitchy teen girls, getting your period at school, scary religious moms, getting...

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The Private Hell of a Sociopath

Sometimes the greatest horror is not the masked dude with a butcher knife under your bed that stinks of teenage pheremones. Sometimes the true, unbridled horror lives within yourself.Such is the case for Charlie Bronson. The most violent man in England. Check out this...

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The PROM NIGHT sequels (and one crappy remake)

As any self-respecting horror fan knows, the Canadian slasher PROM NIGHT represents one third of the Jamie Lee Curtis trifecta of 1980 (THE FOG and TERROR TRAIN being the others). It's an okay flick, but managed to be surprise hit, catching the first curl of the...

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H.P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Artists

Over at Tor.com, John Coulthart has written a nice piece on Lovecraft and his favorite artists. It  even brings up what might be the very first sketch of Cthulhu by Lovecraft himself (see below).

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The Joy of Cooking Humans

One of our favorite horror hotties, Natalie Slater of Bake and Destroy fame and former DEATHSCRIBE judge, has put her cookbook, The Joy of Cooking Humans, up on the worldwide interwebs for free. (Art by Putrid!) Get it here.

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