Spookoween 2019: 31 Days of Horror, Part I
This year’s Spookoween season is redolent of Baphomet, Adrienne Barbeau, a 1980s vibe, tigers, drag, Jane Eyre-ishness, children in danger, fascists getting what they deserve, fairy tales, and both...
View ArticleSpookoween 2019: 31 Days of Horror, Part II
Spookoween 2019 continues with more cats, especially black cats, although not tigers, and another werewolf, another all-girl school and dangerous female friendship. There is Bela Lugosi and people of...
View ArticleSpookoween 2019: 31 Days of Horror, Part III
Part III brings more cats and especially black cats or at least panthers. More Bela Lugosi. More werewolves and vampires. Lionel Atwill returns bringing more mad science. There are ghouls both...
View ArticleRolling in the Deep with Moby-Dick
This month at The Cultural Gutter is Switcheroo Month. Traditionally the editors write something outside of their usual domains. This time, though, we are faced with a domainless Gutter. And so this...
View ArticleSpookoween 2021: 31 Days of Horror, Part I
So last year, I actually did 31 days of horror. I just didn’t write about all the films. My eye was injured and the resulting eye full of ghost blood that only I could see meant that both reading and...
View ArticleSummer Fun time reading ’22
Summer is nearly upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere and it is, to say the least, an uncertain time. I don’t know what your plans are. Maybe a camping trip. Maybe the beach. Maybe you feel safe...
View ArticleSummer Fun Time Reading ’23
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age...
View ArticleHundreds of Beavers (USA, 2022)
Back in the olden times when beaver felt top hats were all the rage in Europe, the Great Lakes were part of New France, and Green Bay did not even exist*, there lived a man named Jean Kayak (Ryland...
View ArticleSharksploitation!
I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim in the ocean was problematic. But I also loved animals,...
View ArticlePearl Cheung Ling and the White-Haired Demoness
Imagine a woman raised by wolves, a martial artist with white hair caused by ancient herbology rather than age. She is called a demoness or a witch by the righteous, though she punishes the cruel and...
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