Earlier this year I wrote about how hard it was to find interesting, stylish, high-quality calendars year after year. Well, I wanted to warn you against showering me in calendar gifts this Christmas, because I found enough to tide me over for a few more years, at least. Most exiting is the discovery...

Last week, a vampire-killing kit dated to the turn of the 19th century was sold at an estate sale for the sum of $14,850. I expect this price represents an excellent deal, as the savvy vampire hunter always waits until after the Halloween rush to snap up occult supplies at steep discounts. It's like...

Happy Halloween, all. Here are some offerings in the spirit of the season. Enjoy. Exhibits A large collection of vintage Halloween postcards on Flickr.Via Mira y Calla. Spookshows.com is a treasure of vintage things suitable for Halloween, like this collection of vintage poison labels, or poster art...

I've been waiting for years to play Phantasmagoria. In 1995 when Sierra released it, the now-classic horror adventure game was both groundbreaking and controversial. Groundbreaking, for its unprecedented use of fully integrated full-motion video (FMV) production techniques, which required a 550-page...

City of Ember is a new favorite blog. Taking inventory of the world's tunnels, bunkers, cellars, caverns, and other dark subterranean locales, like the catacombs under Paris, the lavish Wielicza Salt Mine, or Darvaza, the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan, it's like a lushly-illustrated travel blog for t...

In case you haven't been paying much attention to this Internets thing and haven't heard, let me be the one to inform you that the time is now to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the low-budget musical comedy internet miniseries by Joss Whedon about an aspiring suburban supervillain, the sweet ...

The Strand Annex on Fulton Street is closing. The rent hikes are too high, the construction on the streets is choking foot traffic, times they is hard. I pass the place frequently, depending on the particular route I take from work to the subway home, but I've never gone in. I'm on the wagon and a b...

This image spooked the hell out of me. So now I'm linking to the article at Damn Interesting where it came from, about a fellow called Charles Bonnet and the things his grandfather saw and the curious hallucinatory phenomenon to which he gave his name, not only because it is, as always, a damn inter...

These days, anything can be made into a performance -- even the simple act of putting [implement] to [surface]. Field Music - In Context. A music video featuring an illustration drawn in a single, unbroken line. A very long, intricate one. Impressive.Via 30gms. The Graffiti Machine. This bizarre con...

I've been tagged by Katkmeanders for the Seven Things meme, with the following rules: 1) Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.2) Share 7 facts about yourself.3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.4) Let each person know that t...