The book starts out with our anti-heroine falling into a machine and thrust forward into 2013 from 1943. Jumping forward seventy years out of your time and comfort zone must be a […]
Two Different Tonics – Strange Killings: Strong Medicine and Necromancer
The next two chapters in the ongoing tribulations of Ellis and Wolfer’s combat magician, William Gravel are good, with one far better than the other. Strong Medicine has our hero looking into […]
Damned Kids! – Bloody Birthday (1981)
When a movie opens with ominous music, babies being born and an eclipse taking place simultaneously, you just know that nothing good can come of it. And such is the case with […]
Apocalyptic Actions Do Not An Apocalypse Make – Sheltered Volume 1
Sheltered is one of those rare comics where going into the book, there was no prior knowledge of it, the creators or the concept. Comprising five issues, it was a blind buy […]
Gravel, Teacher – Strange Killings: The Body Orchard
This series of Warren Ellis’s combat magician sees our hero in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Again. Seems Gravel just cannot keep out of trouble no matter where he goes. […]
Immortality By Any Means – Nothing But the Night (1972)
Even though this could be classified as a horror movie, Nothing But the Night is a little light on that particular element. It is more akin to a suspense-thriller picture more than […]
Oh, To Feel Young Again – The Sorcerers (1967)
The first thought that comes to mind when watching The Sorcerers is that Boris Karloff has got to be at least 100 years old. Funny enough, it was not that far off […]
Only Good Intentions – Before I Hang (1940)
Before I Hang finds poor Boris Karloff ready to go to jail, sentenced to death for a murder which he did commit, but one he deemed merciful and without malice. How did […]
Think Before You Dig Up That Graveyard! – Witchcraft (1964)
Lon Chaney is furious! A developer is tearing up his family’s graveyard even though no one has been recently buried there in the last 150 years. Bill Lanier played by Jack Hedley […]
Brotherly Love – The Black Room (1935)
One knows they are watching a good movie when the credits roll and it introduces Boris Karloff as its star. Called The Black Room, the film is about two brothers who are […]
The Telltale Mind 