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Slow PC Slows Down ‘Bad Apps’; Boris Karloff's 138th Birthday

Photo of actor Boris Karloff.
Actor Boris Karloff, 23 November 1887 - 2 February 1969 
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons


Earlier on this Saturday that I’m actually writing this post for the Monday I will have released it, I was going to concentrate more on writing and revising stories for "Bad Apps", my upcoming book of short science fiction horror stories. However, my desktop has been running so slow during the past two weeks that it’s been slowing down the writing that I do on it, including my story revisions for “Bad Apps”. So, I decided to uninstall several apps that I never use because they’re probably what was causing the computer to process so slowly. Because doing that took so long, I'm keeping this post short. I thought I should talk a little about actor Boris Karloff, since the Saturday that I'm writing this is his 138th birthday! (His posthumous birthday, of course.) 

Karloff played some big roles in movie adaptations of books by famous authors of horror. The most notable of these is "Frankenstein" and the sequel, "Bride of Frankenstein", in which in both he played the monster. (“Bride” was specifically an adaptation of a segment of Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein".) However, he also did really superb work in two other movies based on classic literary fiction. One was the 1934 pre-code horror film "The Black Cat", based on Edgar Allen Poe's short story of the same name. In this movie, he co-starred with Bela Lugosi ("Dracula") as a Satanic priest. The other one that he played in was the 1963 Roger Corman adaptation of Poe's narrative poem, "The Raven". In this dark comical film, he co-starred with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre as an evil, rivalling sorcerer. So, through his acting, Karloff helped bring to cinematic life some of the greatest works of horror literature!


Everybody have a great week and, for those of you here in the US, have a Happy "Fangsgiving", as we horror writers and fans like to call the Thanksgiving holiday. So, enjoy your dinosaur descendent dinner! But most of all, be thankful. All of us, no matter where we are in the world, have something to be thankful for. Fellow writers, at what point do you have to put aside your writing in order to maintenance your device that you write on? Everybody, do you have a favourite Boris Karloff film? 

Until next time . . . 

 

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