Cannibal Cop Scares Us!

Welcome back, scaredy cats!  We recorded in January, but our wrath is still relevant!  We're talking about all kinds of fun scat, including my 40th birthday party in HAWAII!!!!  Here, to begin, are some whales we saw:

And the awesome edition of Gaywyck that I found at an awesome used bookstore in Lahaina -- I'd heard of it before, and now I can read it for myself!

This cover (above) is the edition that I purchased (and I will read it!) ...

... but I dig this edition as well!  It's always been my theory that if something I want to read doesn't exist, then I'll just right it m'own damn self.  Which apparently is a philosophy that Mr. Virga embraced as well.  THE FIRST GAY GOTHIC ... how ballah is that?!?

My first published play!  Get it here!

And The Gorgon Sisters!  Get it here!

And Dracula!  Buy it here!

It's back!  Our first hit single!  Sing it with me now:

birds Birds BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS BIRDS!!! 

The attack of the crows over Amy and Aaron's house!!!  They tend to amass in the trees over yonder at sunset ... a whole giant murder of the bastards. Check out the House Party episode to experience the awesomeness that is Amy and Aaron.

And now ... for tonight's topic ... Gillberto Valle, THE CANNIBAL COP!!!

Keep it classy, New York Post.

This is the kind of thing I found when I was doing photo research on our fiend, er, friend, Mr. Valle:

Bluebeard, courtesy of Graham Ingels and Tales from the Crypt!

The Vertigo zoom in JAWS:

 The amazing advertisement that my husband made for this episode:

Here's this muthafuckah's novel:

THROW.  AWAY.  THE DAMNED KEY.

Stephen King's The Outsider.  Not for the faint of heart.  Go to.

Frankenstein Among the Dead Scares Us!

How cool are these cards Theatrefolk sent me to advertise my first published play, Frankenstein Among the Dead?  (Click on the title to buy a copy of your very own!)  And click here to listen to the episode where Katya and I dissect all that is Frankenstein-y!

The Horror Hotel in the City of the Dead Scares Us

We started this episode talking about the 2018 revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band ...

...featuring the hot hot hottie Matt Bomer.  Enjoy him for a moment before the true horror begins.  I'll wait.

Okay, we're back.

Everybody buy my play!  Click here to purchase Frankenstein Among the Dead.

Christina Heagney as Morgan LeFay and Zach French as Merlin in my new play, Morgan and Merlin, currently touring around the state of Montana.

Morgana gets real; Merlin crawls out of a tree that totally does not contain vaginal imagery.

Here's a link to Horror Hotel ... watch it before you continue!

Our old friend Jack Davis, the illustrator famously known for helping the evolution of EC Comic's The Crypt Keeper for Tales from the Crypt (check out our episode on TFTC by clicking here), did a ridiculously rad poster for Horror Hotel -- "doom service" ... tee hee.

That looks like Peter Cushing to me.  Fail.

The video cover of Horror Hotel that I purchased at that long ago Sam Goody's in the Missoula Southgate Mall.

Patricia Jessel as Elizabeth Selwyn, that beautiful bitch.

Christopher Lee as Alan Driscoll, seducing Venetia Bradley's Nan Barlow with a creepy little town in New England.

And Christopher Lee baring his fangs in his first foray as Count Dracula in The Horror of Dracula.

This gorgeous landscape of the horrors that dwell within the mind of H.P. Lovecraft was separated into individual paperback covers from Del Rey in the 80s and 90s.  Whitewood might as well have been Dunwich.

13 o'clock, from the 1980s series Friday the 13th: The Series that had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees and all to do with cursed antiques. 

Witches, easily disposed.

The big reveal of Elizabeth Selwyn's demise at the end of Horror Hotel ...

...and a similar moment in Hitchcock's Psycho.

Angelique/Cassandra from Dark Shadows with her brother/fellow warlock Nicholas Blair ...

... and their counterparts in Horror Hotel:  Jethro Keene and Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newlys.

And finally ... THE CRONES OF WHITEWOOD!  May they haunt your dreams.

The 5 Boys Who NEVER CAME BACK!!! (Scares Us)

We're back, batches!  Follow along as Katya and I tackle the tragic tale of the 5 Boys Who Never Came Back ...

We start out the episode shouting out to our Suspiria episode ... check it out ...

Katya suggests that we use our episode about "The Lottery" to teach the children ...

We push my play (some more) ... (Click here to buy one of your very own!)

Someone needs to compile all our potential band names that we come up with for us.  That someone is not me, and probably not Katya either. #theimpericalbetters

Then, leading into our reader-chosen topic (shout out to Joanna!), we reference our episode on the Dyatlov Pass and the film adaptation we haven't seen ...

Huh.  It was giant glowing-eyed ice monsters all along.

All right; buckle up, kitty cats.  Here ... we ... go!!!

THE DISTURBING TALE OF THE 5 BOYS WHO NEVER CAME BACK ...

Follow this link to Strange Outdoors, a blog about "mysterious stories" (and this one qualifies ...) -- it has maps and photos and some videos that will shed a bit more light on the story for you.

Here's the link to the original story in the Washington Post.

The cover of the Night Creatures volume from The Enchanted World!

Rawhead and Bloody Bones.  This is the worst!

Black Annis, the hag who skins children!

Nadilla, the vampire ghoul!  This book was advertised  on television a lot when I was a child, and I vividly remember this particular illustration.  It's freaky as hell that she isn't even looking at him as she attacks him!

Frankenstein Among the Dead (Original Cast Photos) Scares Us

Enjoy these shots (by the incomparable Aline Dufflocq Williams) from the original production of Frankenstein Among the Dead, presented at Hellgate High School, November 2015.

(If you'd like a copy of your very own, click on the title, Frankenstein Among the Dead.)

(If you'd like to enjoy Katya and I discussing Bride of Frankenstein and totally plugging Frankenstein Among the Dead, click here.)

Lee Adler as the Monster and Brighid Leonard as Mary Shelley.

Nathan Dudden as Victor Frankenstein and Jalynn Nelson as Elizabeth.

Megan Royce as Elsa, the mystery woman.

 

Nathan Dudden as Victor and Hunter White as Henry Clerval.

Lee Adler as the Monster and Nathan Dudden as Victor.

Nicolas Crepeau as a Ghoul.

The cast and crew of Frankenstein Among the Dead.