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Authors: Dead or Alive

αΩ   Dead or Alive? How many of your authors are dead? Dead: 49 / Alive: 116 / Unknown: 153 / Not a Person: 1 Percent alive: 70.3% xo   The above is a report generated from a neat new analytical script that LibraryThing can do to your home bookshelves, called "Dead or Alive?" I sort of assumed I'd have more dead authors.  Ah well.  Ironically, they listed my own name as "Unknown"...and I found that a little soothing.  Call me anthropomorphic, but I think I'd rather be among those undead than "Not a Person". [Scrolled to the bottom ... They…
February 14, 2009Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

The Haunt’s Horror Arcade

I should be working, but how can I when there are maniac clowns on the loose? The new "MySpace for Horror Fans Only" website, The Haunt, hosts a bounty of online "flash" games you can play online for free in their macabre Arcade section. I'm not too old to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the silly survivalist massacre known as Clown Killer 2.   After a ten minute session, I became the champion player of CK2 with a new high score...which will surely be defeated soon by some John Wayne Gacy wannabe who has more time on his or her plastic-gloved hands. I'm haunting the…
January 30, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

Merry Creepy Christmas

  Happy holidays! Ring in the season with the Creepy Christmas Film Festival -- a series a short holiday-themed horror films posted all month long at Glass Eye Pix! [The Little Stocking Stuffer image in this post is from the Creepy Advent Calendar by animator Beck Underwood, which helped inspire the Festival project.]
December 25, 2008Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month