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.

John List Scares Us!

Tonight's episode, featuring family annihilator John List, was also the last we recorded before Katya left Missoula to pursue her PhD.  But fear not, apricot:  we recorded another episode last night, and you'll be privy to it soon!

Your fearless hosts; note Katya in her fuchsia peignoir!  

Ryan and I are so obsessed with Race Chaser podcast that we mention it in our next episode as well!

If you're looking to pick up a copy of the book we gifted Katya with for her going away present,
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai look no further than your friendly neighborhood This Place Scares Us blog.

Katya challenged me to name my favorite episode, and it has to be Episode 5, Cycle of the Werewolf!

The first appearance of Catwoman ... yes, Papa will spank.

Obviously it's super easy to leap around from roof top to roof top in a purple evening gown, green tablecloth, and high heels.

Catwoman's evolution.  I'm going to begin every conversation starting tomorrow with "Meow do you do?"

The new Catwoman costume, complete with breathing room for your arm pits.

Pu Pu!

Smoke over the city at The Keep, where we enjoyed Katya's farewell dinner.

We record on top of my Tales from the Crypt books.  And Katya's peignoir continues to be fabulous.

Ryan designed this creepy graphic of John List combined with a skull.  Very effective.

The Stepfather, complete, if you care to watch it.

Falling Down is the first thing I thought of when I saw John List's photo.

The List family.  Oh, Helen.  Oh, oh.

Lara Parker (refer to our episodes focusing on House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows), starring as Laura in The Glass Menagerie.

The List bust that finally caught the bastard.

Episode 9: Tales from the Crypt Scares Us!

Check out episode 9 (below this post, or click here), focusing on the EC Comics phenomenon of the 1950s, which gave us Tales from the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, and The Vault of Horror. 

I name-dropped Graham Ingels a bunch during the episode; even though the Old Witch, my favorite Ghoulunatic, isn't hosting it, here's one of my favorite stories from Tales from the Crypt, "Blood Type 'V'! (Bang!)"

And speaking of vampires ... the final issue of The Vault of Horror, illustrated by Johnny Craig, which definitely possesses, shall we say, a queer sensibility ...

And finally, a few portraits Graham Ingels painted of the Old Witch in his later years:

Happy Holidays from This Place Scares Us!

Episode 9 ... Coming soon!

Episode Nine (Coming Soon!): Tales from the Crypt Scares Us

While you're tremulously waiting for Episode 9 to drop (this Sunday!), prepare yourselves by reading this story that upset Katya so much ... from EC Comics' Tales from the Crypt #33 to, um, bone up (heh heh heh, to quote the Crypt Keeper):

Here's the cover, which I first glimpsed in its Gladstone Comic reprint in the late spring/early summer of 1990, in Gordon's, a now-defunct grocery store in Glasgow, Montana: