A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Steven Arellano Rose  And this really will be a mini report and I will tell you why in a bit. As you may have guessed, I’m delaying the Book-To-Movie  of the month to next weekend. Today was Sinister Creature Con's Sinister Halloween Con at the Scottish Rite Center in Sacramento, CA and so I wanted to go over that a little, and, as I’ve kind of already indicated, I do mean I’ll go over it just a little. Sinister Creature Con is the organization that puts on horror conventions in the Sacramento area throughout the year and is very big on make-up art but features other art as well such as books, comics, paintings, sculptures, jewelry and even clothes. And they always feature tons of guest celebrities. Now, why is this con report going to be so short? Because I didn’t attend it. Not really. I only attended the free outdoor portion. By the time I arrived at the Scottish Rite Center, which was a little before 2 PM, the length of the line for admission was nearly the equiva...

Credit: Pixabay.com Sinister Creature Con is a biannual horror convention in Sacramento, California that caters to movie make-up artists. However, as with the show that occurred during the weekend of June 15th at the Scottish Rite Center, horror authors do show up as venders to present their work. Other items related to horror fiction are also featured, such as board games based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The Horror Authors The horror fiction authors at June’s Sinister Creature Con included Nicholas Grabowsky, Derek Muk and Nicolas Walls. There may have been others, but I only had time to talk with those three. Grabowsky’s table consisted of both his own and other horror fiction writers’ works, many of which he has published through his Black Bed Sheet Books publishing house which is headquartered in nearby Antelope. One of his books is his 1989 novel, The Rag Man, which he said he is doing a re-write of for a new edition that he’s collaborating on with another auth...