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In honor of Halloween, narrator and voiceover artist Xe Sands is featuring two Edgar Allan Poe pieces in her ongoing Going Public initiative: his classic poem The Raven and his short story The Tell-Tale Heart.
Find out more about this initiative and listen to the pieces here!
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The Celts also thought that the spirits of the dead could wander freely during Samhain, and certain precautions had to be taken to protect the living from their malevolence. Households would carve turnips into frightening faces and use tapers to light them from within, leaving them outside their homes to ward the ghosts away. Young people wore masks or frightening makeup and wandered from home to home taking offerings of food or coin.
This week’s excerpt is only a few days before All Hallows Eve, so the DRS team thought it was only appropriate to give you a little scare heading into your weekend. Click Read More…if you can handle the terror…
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The Walking Dead is cueing up for its second season, and as a huge fan of the show and a major zombie nerd in general, I just can’t wait! Really, I’m jonesing. After trying unsuccessfully to get my zombie fix by hanging out at the DMV, I’ve taken to writing about the show in my [...]
Read MoreAuthor John Birmingham takes on the Halloween Haters from the Land Down Under, in Blog Post of the Week!
Halloween is this weekend!
It is easily my favorite holiday. Yes, it involves costumes. Yes, it delivers candy. Yes, there are parties to be had by all. But most of all, it means movies. Scary ones. All over television the next few days.
Here are my Top 5 Scary Movies I Love To Watch!
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Here it is – the second book in David Wellington’s werewolf series. If you liked Frostbite you can’t not follow it up with Overwinter. And I still can’t walk home alone at night.
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I can no longer walk home alone at night. David Wellington’s Frostbite has cheerfully, okay, graphically, pointed out that horrible things can happen to you when you’re alone. And while Cheyenne Clark was lost in the wilderness, not walking home alone, when she was bitten – I’m not taking any chances.
If you don’t mind the risk, by all means, continue your nightly trek. Or, to get major thrills without injury to life and limb, read a bit of Frostbite.
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Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’re coming. They’re hungry.
On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civilization has faced them. By immersing ourselves in past horror we may yet prevail over the coming outbreak in our time.
If this doesn’t make you see that we must organize or die, nothing will and I wash my hands of you.
Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks – Excerpt
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