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 missing last week. I was busy editing much of the newsletter for this month on the day of its release. This month’s issue features a free short story, so if you haven't yet subscribed to my newsletter, “Night Creatures' Call”, you can do so here . In this and future issues of the newsletter you’ll find things such as news about my upcoming book and future Book-To-Movie reviews.  A couple of productions by Guillermo del Toro, producer of dark fantastic films such as “Pan's Labyrinth” and “The Orphanage”, are coming up. One is a movie and the other a TV anthology series. Both will feature adaptations of stories by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft and others.  Del Toro’s movie, entitled, “Nightmare Alley”, is based on a 40s noir novel by William Lindsay Gresham. A remake of an earlier adaptation from 1947, the movie is about a traveling carnival in which one of its employees who is ambitious and manipulative becomes involved in a relationship wit...