Quote of the day: Fear is incomplete knowledge.—Agatha Christie Boris Karloff probably gave his best performance of all time in the 1945 movie The Body Snatcher. It was based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, which you can find in Project Gutenberg’s Tales and Fantasies. The story was so short that the script had … Continue reading Karloff’s Best
Horror
The Cheaters
Quote of the day: We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.—Robert Bloch When Thriller debuted on NBC in 1960, I couldn't watch it because it came on at 9 PM on Tuesday nights, which was a school night, and so I had to get to bed by 9:00 or 9:30 at the … Continue reading The Cheaters
The Tell-Tale Heart
If there is one Edgar Allen Poe story that I think every American child encounters sometime during their journey through school, it must be “The Tell-Tale Heart”. It’s my favorite of the Poe tales, short and very much to the point. On the latest episode of the Scriptnotes podcast, John August interviews Robert Eggers, the … Continue reading The Tell-Tale Heart
The October Game
I’ve previously written about the days when we did a morning show over the PA system during our Elco junior year. We called ourselves the Irregulars because we were supposed to be a rotating group, but in truth it was mostly the same kids for most of the year with very little change in personnel. … Continue reading The October Game
The Jar
I’ve never really been a fan of Ray Bradbury’s fiction. His science fiction novels are generally pretty devoid of science, and his fantasy novels are rather tedious in my opinion. But he could dish up a pretty good horror short story now and then. And many of them served as source material for television scripts. … Continue reading The Jar