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February 2015

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Uma Thurman, The Munsters – A Lot of Death In One Happy Little Song

So there I am, typing away on my manuscript like a good little writer, when a Spotify ad plays. Normally I ignore these things, I swear, but what do I hear coming out of this ad? THE MUNSTERS THEME SONG. You gotta stop and whistle, you just have to. I look to see what's happening, and it turns out that Fall Out Boy recently came out with this very popular song you may have heard already called Uma Thurman. This is what the bassist/lyricist Pete Wentz had to say on the wikipedia page for this song... "This was a fun song to write. originally, when we came up with[...]

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Reboot of the Horror Movie

Love horror? If you search the Internet, you'll find just how many horror films will be releasing over the next two years. Today, the focus is on horror reboots. While there are many being talked about, only a handful have made progress in writing, casting, and filming. I have seen every one of the originals. The Crow was dark and haunting. Frankenstein was amazing in black and white. Poltergeist scarred me for life. Carrie is the book that almost wasn't. The story behind Stephen King's path to success is as amazing as the movie version is. Gremlins--a stuffed[...]

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Announcing Our New Midnight Matron!

I'm so excited and pleased to announce the first Midnight Matron of 2015! What the heck is Midnight Matron? The Midnight Society’s Midnight Matron is a member of the Midnight Society team. He or she is someone that goes above and beyond to contribute to the Midnight Society, to our readers, and embraces the wonders of macabre like no other. That’s great but…what does this mean? The Midnight Matron gets to reign supreme over the following month. This means that our January Midnight Matron will reign as Matron over February. In March, a new Midnight Matron w[...]

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Poltergeist Remake

Story time: When I was a kid, kindergarten or first grade, I spent the night at my neighbor friend Tina's house a lot. She had teenage sisters who were pretty and had big hair and tanned boyfriends. We felt all very grown up and mature and cool tagging along behind them when they did things. One night when I was sleeping over, Tina and I were upstairs while the sisters and their boyfriends watched a movie on HBO. We heard them talking.. it was going to be scary. How hilarious, we thought, would it be to sneak downstairs, crawl behind the couches, wait for a real[...]

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Zombies? Frankenstein Was Undead Before It Was Cool!

When I was a kid my favorite thing to draw was Frankenstein's monster. Eventually, I drew a little monster family, and wrote little stories about their adventures together. They had a little dog, too. Frances, the daughter, really liked math and science, and liked to play with building frankenbugs. Some kids are cooler than others. I thought it'd be fun to do a post about my love of Frankenstein and fill your brains up with some frankenlove, but when that post crept up over a thousand words, I thought, how about a series of posts where we can just keep talking[...]

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The Trio

The Trio, also known as Andrew Wells, Jonathan Levinson, and Warren Mears teamed up to take over Sunnydale. The Trio--as they became known--came together to create shrink rays, invisibility ray, prototype jet packs, and chicks chicks chicks. Iksnay on the urdervey (I may have this spelled entirely wrong, but originally Jonathan and Andrew are against killing Buffy). None are Jedi masters, but they do have certain abilities, like summoning demons and flying monkeys, creating an anatomically correct Buffy robot, and augment reality. Alone they may have gone unnot[...]

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Creepy Pizza (A Poem)

Most of you that know me, understand that I love pizza more than most things. Like boys or oxygen or money (which can be problematic because most people wont barter for pizza). Anywho, I came across this gem on the interwebs and I knew it couldn't be ignored. I introduce to you, possibly the most incredible poem of the modern society. World, meet Creepy Pizza. Creepy Pizza, world. Creepy Pizza by Neal Levin   I’d like a pizza topped with cheese then sprinkled with some gnats and fleas, some centipedes and slimy slugs, and other creepy, crawly bugs. I w[...]

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February Book Club: The Supernatural Enhancements

The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero is on the hot new releases list at the high school where I work. After digging into it a little more, I'm stoked to read it. Synopsis: When twentysomething A., the European relative of the Wells family, inherits a beautiful, yet eerie, estate set deep in the woods of Point Bless, Virginia, it comes as a surprise to everyone—including A. himself. After all, he never knew he had a "second cousin, twice removed" in America, much less that his eccentric relative had recently committed suicide by jumping out of the t[...]