by Blogcritics | Jul 18, 2016 | art, books, comics, conventions and events, culture, extraterrestrials, media, monsters, movies, paranormal, television |
By Shawn Bourdo and Gordon S. Miller San Diego Comic-Con 2016: Thursday Shawn Bourdo The first day of Comic-Con is such a roller coaster. It’s usually the sweetest day of the whole Con. You are still full of energy, you’ve forgotten how the Convention smells and the...
by The Lineup | Jul 18, 2016 | culture, monsters, religion and belief, vampires |
By Gary Sweeney In 19th century New England, an outbreak of consumption triggered a widespread vampire terror that centered most personally on young Mercy Brown. Consumption (also known as tuberculosis) was a leading cause of death in the 1800s; by all accounts, it...
by Eric Olsen | Jul 15, 2016 | books, culture, media, radio, religion and belief |
In a deeply spiritual edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we speak with gifted author and Yale Divinity School-ordained minister Melinda Worth Popham about the spiritual...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
In the wake of the recent mass murder in Orlando, Florida, it feels important to me to shed some light on how the popular media has handled (and always seems to handle) mass murderers. Orlando, following the shooting [photo by Phelen Ebenhack; Associated Press]Whether...
by Blogcritics | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, media, paranormal, religion and belief, television, Uncategorized |
By Celina Summers No matter where you turn, it seems like paranormal investigation shows are everywhere. From long-running television shows like SyFy’s Ghost Hunters to Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures and Dead Files and YouTube channels run by investigation groups,...
by The Lineup | Jul 8, 2016 | media, monsters, movies, paranormal |
By DeAnna Janes The horror genre oozes with substance. So whittling down the field to the 10 best horror directors—five classic, five modern—proved more challenging than sawing off one’s foot. But we did it. So here you go: 10 sultans of sinister who elevate blood and...
by Eric Olsen | Jul 8, 2016 | books, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, media, paranormal |
The Rocky Mountains are home to some of the most spectacular scenery on Earth – a place of magnificent natural wonders, and supernatural wonders as well. Just outside the north entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, the majestic neo-Georgian Stanley Hotel...
by Eric Olsen | Jul 8, 2016 | books, culture, magick and occult, media, monsters, paranormal, radio, religion and belief, supernatural beings |
On this particularly freewheeling and wide ranging episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we talk with mysterious magician, illusionist, paranormal debunker, and writer...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 7, 2016 | culture, media, movies |
The third film in the Purge franchise, The Purge: Election Year, hit theaters, appropriately enough, over the July 4th holiday weekend. While straight-up horror isn’t really my genre (I’m more into psychological thrillers, naturally), there was something about The...
by Blogcritics | Jul 6, 2016 | monsters, zombies |
By MICHAEL PRINCE When Techland released Dead Island the video game did not quite live up to the hype generated by its amazing promo video, but it was still a lot of fun. Killing zombies had been done before, of course, but not on a tropical island paradise. It was...
