Posted inDictionscary

ichor

Ichor. You want it to taste like liquor, but it doesn't. It's just icky. Pronouncing the term aloud is enough to make most people reach for some hand sanitizer and drink a glop of that instead. It's a weird word, so it's no surprise that you'll stumble over it in horror stories everywhere. "Ichor" is used quite a bit by HP Lovecraft and others of his ilk to describe oozy things like the slime that dribbles from the dread nostrils of the Great Old Ones (especially that nasular monstrosity known only as "Achoolu"). It's a fun word to say, since…
October 3, 2010Posted inDictionscary1 Comment
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Cool April Fool

Dark Regions Press pulled a cool April Fool prank yesterday when their newsletter announced the Crypt Keeper would now be their spokesman, after reading my book, Proverbs for Monsters... My own April Fool's scare was pretty lame. But you can still see it on my twitter profile. Visit Dark Regions Press for all sorts of great books that ARE worthy of the Crypt Keeper's time. I suspect their collection, Nostradumus' Fate, will be out in the months ahead. Keep you're eyes on this press....they're doing great things. In fact, if you subscribe to their newsletter you not only get funky…
April 2, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." - C.S. Lewis (died 1963)

Ignorance Is Bliss (For The Mole People)
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Who Horrors

I can't explain why I did this, but in the days and moments leading up to the halftime show by The Who at Super Bowl XLIV, I kept posting twisted and sick puns of Who song titles and lyrics to my twitter account. A few weirdos joined me in the fun. Like most puns, some of these are astoundingly bad examples of wordplay, but what the heck: here is the complete collection of Who Horrors for your amusement, my embarrassment, and, well, posterity. Pinhead Wizard Tommy, Can You Fear Me? Blobophrenia You Deader, You Deader, You Dead I Can Spree…
February 13, 2010Posted inSnippets of the Strange1 Comment
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

Orphan Feast is a delightfully strange game, inspired by a combination of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Dickens' Oliver Twist -- with a little Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton thrown into the mix. In Orphan Feast you play Creeky Tom, a ghoulish rogue whose goal is to prowl the dark alleys and rundown streets of old London and capture the homeless street urchins you'll find everywhere there, gathering them in a sack, while avoiding a cast of crazy characters out to foil you in bizarre ways. The orphans -- if you make it back to your lair -- are…
December 23, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month