Happy Halloween! Last day for the October Scary Book Reviews. You know what’s a really scary topic? Cannibals! I remember I was partway through Season One of the TV show Hannibal, and I was already hooked on the charismatic killer and dazzled by the gorgeous food he would serve to his unsuspecting guests. Some of his gourmet dishes
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! So, The Walking Dead, huh? How about that episode? Lots of important character development there. The cinematography was pretty good, and the lighting director really had to…oh who am I kidding? That episode was brutal and we’re still mad! Sit back
My kind is swift to chase, swift to battle. My imperfect memory is long with longing for the fight. Yes, okay, I know. I’ve already done a collection of short horror stories this month. In my defense, Laird Barron’s collection Swift to Chase came out just this month, and as soon as I saw it I knew it was
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Things are a little tense in Night Vale right now. Mayor Cardinal has opened negotiations with Hiram McDaniel’s sister Hadassah, who’s acting as representative of The Five-Headed Dragon world. The Mayor wants Hiram to face the consequences of attempted assassination of
Say what you will about H.P. Lovecraft – his elaborate Victorian prose, his cringeworthy racial biases – the man created a sandbox that horror writers love to play in. I’ve reviewed one story by Lovecraft in this column; compare that to, what, three separate posts about Lovecraft-inspired stories? Maybe four? There’s something irresistible about a modern take on the Cthulhu mythos, with
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s podcast was recorded in New York City! Manhattan to be exact, just days after Binary System (and official Pixelated Geek photographer Captain Slack) (also known as Kathryn’s husband Nathan) attended New York Comic Con 2016! We geek out over
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! That’s right, this week we recap TWO episodes of Welcome To Night Vale, episodes 94 and 95, just because we want to give YOU all the content. It has nothing to do with the fact that we’re running a month behind.
For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. It’s October, and that means a whole month of scary-book reviews! First up is H.G. Wells’s 1897 classic The War of the Worlds, and…what? Okay, I know it’s technically a science fiction book.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No Welcome To Night Vale recap this week, since the Binary System Podcast duo has been traveling all over time and space this month. Well, all over space anyway. Okay, we each spent a week in Florida visiting the ‘rents. The