A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay The topic for this post is kind of last minute because I had mistaken this weekend for the weekend that we have our Book-To-Movie review but that’s not until next Saturday. So, I spent the majority of the time getting everything together for that. But for this post, I have for you something kind of like a Book-To-Movie. It's more of a book-to-TV. It’s TV anthologies.  Anthology series are one of the latest trends in streaming television. This is especially so in the horror genre. Although I'm not one for horror television like I am with movies of the genre, I do make an exception when it comes to anthology series. I've always enjoyed the horror that the shows of the 1960s such as “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits” came out with. So, I'm always willing to give a TV horror anthology a try. The TV streaming service, Shudder, is loaded with horror anthology series. After all, horror is its specialty! One of the most popular of these series has been ...

Credit: Pixabay I apologise for not posting last weekend. I was going through a stressful week which gave me a writer’s block. But after taking some time off, I’m now back on track. February is Black History Month, when we in the US honor and celebrate the great achievements African-Americans have made through the centuries. It’s also a time to make ourselves more aware of these achievements and how they’ve contributed to society in our nation. Many of these include the horror fiction of Black authors which are important to acknowledge because, for far too long, people of colour have been left out of the history of horror in the US. Many of us who are fans of the genre like to be scared. We like to see characters that we care about and can identify with in threatening situations that we normally wouldn't want to be in. This desire to be scared for entertainment is common among people of all races and cultures. However, horror fiction has mostly been written by white authors. Tradit...

Credit: Pixabay.com This weekend saw the release of the Black Panther movie which I plan to see Monday (since that’s a holiday). That is, if I can find a copy of the 1970 issue, number 74, of Avengers that co-stars the African super hero and read it by tomorrow. I just finished reading the previous issue that I purchased a couple of weeks ago not knowing it was going to be a two-parter. I don’t like to simultaneously watch a movie and read a book (including comic book) involving the same character since doing so causes me to confuse the storylines. But the movie, Black Panther , is perfect timing—February is Black History Month. It’s great to see more science fiction stories featuring black characters, since the genre has traditionally been very white. There are a lot of great African-American sci fi and fantasy writers and not just in recent times. There are ones going as far back as, believe it or not, the beginning of the 20 th century with W...