tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20252372549162496482024-03-16T18:51:08.342+00:00Deadpan Flook and The Blog Of Stuff!Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.comBlogger490125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-60481550336619538092024-01-16T11:53:00.002+00:002024-01-16T11:53:47.723+00:00Update to the Update....<p style="text-align: center;"> Well, after all the crappy things that happened to me before the last update, I also managed to get another dose of Covid right before Christmas, which meant having to stop my H-Pylori treatment whilst I waited for it to clear.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I also had to stay in the flat by myself over Christmas, and round two of Covid hit me a bit harder than the first round, so I was having crazy fever dreams and coughing my lungs up all throughout the festive season. I lost my sense of smell again too, which made eating interesting...</p><p style="text-align: center;">However, after resting up, getting plenty of fluids and staying put, I was able to test negative just before New Year, and so New Year's Eve I was able to visit my parents and have Christmas and Hogmany all rolled into one day, which felt odd and a bit rushed, but at least I saw the bells in with other people!</p><p style="text-align: center;">And how am I now? Well, I still have a bit of a cough, I'm still waiting on an ultrasound and ECG to check everything else I had going on before my latest bout of Covid, and for some reason my back has been really sore since I recovered, so I'll need to get that checked out when I get to the doc's too....</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'm hoping that this year will be a lot better than last, and I wish the same to all of you reading this! Have a good one everybody!</p><p style="text-align: center;">I've got a few interesting ideas for this year, that will hopefully be happening soon, so I'll keep you all posted with all of that too..but let's all keep our fingers crossed that we all prosper in 2024!</p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-64081607465943291632023-12-02T12:28:00.002+00:002023-12-02T12:28:59.001+00:00Update.....<p style="text-align: center;"> Hi everyone....this is really just a message for anyone who was expecting posts for Creepmas as I stated at the end of my Countdown to Halloween run that I was planning on posting for the first thirteen days of December.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Well, I've had some terrible news that my cousin died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday, and so posting the stuff I was going to be posting just feels totally wrong now. On top of that, I've just been hit with another bout of H Pylori (Stomach infection) so I'm facing at least a few weeks of antibiotic treatment with horrible side effects.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'll see how I go with everything and might post something around Christmas time, but for now and just in case, I'll wish you all the best for the holiday season, and I'll hopefully be back soon with some more posts...</p><p style="text-align: center;">Have a good one everyone!</p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-60834406897576504622023-10-31T22:04:00.000+00:002023-10-31T22:04:30.244+00:00Almost Forgot....Hallowscream!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrALMY6nJosdsBA50-QXcsyD8IIjPeeY6TCezn1Ntch3q5JYo3BTk5iffboSzLLYZj105VRqN45wOEISYPL1A_kPHkHIF2JK2hjOHQrmPFvd1JkClETj45d64keDan3Sxl-3L72Ykh7Kujmur7fwOHwMxQu22dFwKQBGSeNZHcaBzxE_OdssPBwW4OYBxU/s640/01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="452" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrALMY6nJosdsBA50-QXcsyD8IIjPeeY6TCezn1Ntch3q5JYo3BTk5iffboSzLLYZj105VRqN45wOEISYPL1A_kPHkHIF2JK2hjOHQrmPFvd1JkClETj45d64keDan3Sxl-3L72Ykh7Kujmur7fwOHwMxQu22dFwKQBGSeNZHcaBzxE_OdssPBwW4OYBxU/w283-h400/01.png" width="283" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Almost forgot to mention that the latest issue of the Halloween comic my brother puts together every year is available to download now! </p><p style="text-align: center;">This year he made a paper-mache monster to use for the front cover!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">You can download it by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SI5OWltvYC5gTSj7YWipVd3A6Ps3QvAd/view?pli=1" target="_blank">clicking here.....</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Here's a list of the contents...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Cover by Malcolm Kirk...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 3 : Return Unto Me Story by Dan Whitehead, Art by Mal Jones</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 9 : Apocaly-Oops! Story by Tim West, Art by Carol Kewley</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 10 : Deadvertisements by Malcolm Kirk</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 11 : The Misplaced Tick Written by Andrés Briano, Illustrated by Ciaran Duke, </p><p style="text-align: center;">Lettered by Tim West </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 15 : The Jogger Story by John Crowther, Art by Emi Utrera </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 19 : Undercurrent : The Good Samaritan Story by Paul Bradford, Art by</p><p style="text-align: center;">Randy Valiente</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 27 : Uncle Fred's Puzzle Page by Malcolm Kirk</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 28 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 10 Story and Art by</p><p style="text-align: center;">Malcolm Kirk</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 31 : Called It Story by Gate Karain, Art by Rob Gaughran, Letters by</p><p style="text-align: center;">Tim West</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 33 : Grim Gallery Artwork by Tony Rothwell & Andrew Milne</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Page 36 : Back Cover Skull by Malcolm Kirk</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">You can also download this and all previous issues of Hallowscream at <a href="https://www.backfromthedepths.co.uk/hallowscream/" target="_blank">www.hallowscream.net</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">One last visit to the Countdown to Halloween hub!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3OGfFDSF6rXgdyAsf8lfZbrUTFr1Il62G34URiFk_CvN0TUtwmdYuUnp2V-f1lgJTOqX6doqmdFOsVMDCAZrH4rFijsvMXgCLKoJULhIT_WVIX-5XnHTOeswK9Bou2VXsC3b9wewpbW3zHLGGeyvIZZKSUjvyWzNBxOUz5sC776N5AEc2YYp7LFRiQO7t/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-01.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-35146667186069857842023-10-31T21:21:00.001+00:002023-10-31T21:21:06.581+00:00This year’s decorations! (🎃Happy Halloween!🎃)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ixtpsp95wH0xnsfW6NDnykPCccNFSVMhUqxqQnSmHhv8cxxlkgWSZO2zDyMSw-2BtkW0lF-b7242I0J3LR7MRm18T_sBegFlHeI-1RC81WbycDZsVJjSdd4iKNI42OjBUNZIBytSi9pZyNLNWbVd4s27vkISMfbvEpOZw9ittgIBbi9t19kirUa7IPT/s3264/IMG_2609.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ixtpsp95wH0xnsfW6NDnykPCccNFSVMhUqxqQnSmHhv8cxxlkgWSZO2zDyMSw-2BtkW0lF-b7242I0J3LR7MRm18T_sBegFlHeI-1RC81WbycDZsVJjSdd4iKNI42OjBUNZIBytSi9pZyNLNWbVd4s27vkISMfbvEpOZw9ittgIBbi9t19kirUa7IPT/w400-h300/IMG_2609.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Made it back to the parents, where there has apparently already been 20 trick-or-treaters / guisers…..not bad for a village that only has about 50 houses!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Above is the window with resident spook and witch, and below is the front door with a grim greeter!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg9E2EIBHB0AjFkSCG32AorwsEKGWkPgHSvJB3ZifnjoWO1qFqkTKApvQHzWvTb1xj8qMeMGQHQ2z4onAc8TE2csaj4i-VIkFRoKPWqLzQIrni3Sr63Jtb2x-MbkWLHTyxc37vP9hMTQ37vEzk87YK1KYn7xRsBDN0kFDkNXSc4Sn3gLc_S4E95V5w94I/s3264/IMG_2608.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg9E2EIBHB0AjFkSCG32AorwsEKGWkPgHSvJB3ZifnjoWO1qFqkTKApvQHzWvTb1xj8qMeMGQHQ2z4onAc8TE2csaj4i-VIkFRoKPWqLzQIrni3Sr63Jtb2x-MbkWLHTyxc37vP9hMTQ37vEzk87YK1KYn7xRsBDN0kFDkNXSc4Sn3gLc_S4E95V5w94I/w300-h400/IMG_2608.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Across at my other-mother’s house (the family used to be our neighbour at our previous residence, and coincidentally also moved into the new place 35 years ago at the same time as us!) they have some ghosts flying around their front door (see below)…</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MOrUspYePFyOpo9HNSHiscwzDd3GphJPGS-PtgBv2KdjjoT64cNg4IUy2lfh5ucAr5fLdAiMHsS0jWcGhJoZ3R9IZHlyy2JuNQas-ojKp_uhI8nJlvwYx-sn8IQo94CU6qrmx_Mx2fwTNJL_tp_IvqlemC0Q7Cd_XGvlChe3U11HEKQhamDYZfA_zwXn/s3264/IMG_2607.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MOrUspYePFyOpo9HNSHiscwzDd3GphJPGS-PtgBv2KdjjoT64cNg4IUy2lfh5ucAr5fLdAiMHsS0jWcGhJoZ3R9IZHlyy2JuNQas-ojKp_uhI8nJlvwYx-sn8IQo94CU6qrmx_Mx2fwTNJL_tp_IvqlemC0Q7Cd_XGvlChe3U11HEKQhamDYZfA_zwXn/w300-h400/IMG_2607.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZcutIR7BQ2G_1EMyEUz6h86Dt2aKVwDkdbgZM_M2X5b8yoyMegu4icP6rGD1wEcAnfmC93rFm4MQMYNgXTX9mkzKfzBQv9ITDHZnnyWc0HG46ksiiG_ogMCeNevl95UXNlBCQoXzLm3rX3nGGlpoc2UqqW_6SF7Zr7F0e0zK2pPmlHorF9AbGiYWnDYu/s3264/IMG_2603.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZcutIR7BQ2G_1EMyEUz6h86Dt2aKVwDkdbgZM_M2X5b8yoyMegu4icP6rGD1wEcAnfmC93rFm4MQMYNgXTX9mkzKfzBQv9ITDHZnnyWc0HG46ksiiG_ogMCeNevl95UXNlBCQoXzLm3rX3nGGlpoc2UqqW_6SF7Zr7F0e0zK2pPmlHorF9AbGiYWnDYu/w300-h400/IMG_2603.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HbaOSsH9r6HoMoR7v0-XNaXTp3QKX9sHEpVPvAV-Oa1wC8ZMquwAdxILb1E7RRDyUMDrW80UW81iv7ooUcKQuVlWZsk3vr1H4AIIQmthkynnTPaxj9Iz_dSdlmQb2uUzVBhuT0RpZgovMsHXc-rV2cx7IfTrye3reTouUPHqTNWpx1WwC7pZ3kav4rNO/s3264/IMG_2602.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9HbaOSsH9r6HoMoR7v0-XNaXTp3QKX9sHEpVPvAV-Oa1wC8ZMquwAdxILb1E7RRDyUMDrW80UW81iv7ooUcKQuVlWZsk3vr1H4AIIQmthkynnTPaxj9Iz_dSdlmQb2uUzVBhuT0RpZgovMsHXc-rV2cx7IfTrye3reTouUPHqTNWpx1WwC7pZ3kav4rNO/w300-h400/IMG_2602.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And my dead wedding spooks are hanging next to some oddly melted candles in the front room, along with these guys below!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvQDHCRif4f_Uy0LNZUGrQpLNHR31bQzAT5VBBXnGpGkjnF54-tm3p2bu08lSiod41Vk3aZnDI2vJAFQdJ2aDRp6_OlGEaFn5rAfXwpMjOJj-9qf3B9595dzwL91l8lkU5sQik2OfER0fvxlcrdHLYHT4y84UsplPALXD4xNgswO_LbfhU4EQf7gaEsTy/s3264/IMG_2600.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvQDHCRif4f_Uy0LNZUGrQpLNHR31bQzAT5VBBXnGpGkjnF54-tm3p2bu08lSiod41Vk3aZnDI2vJAFQdJ2aDRp6_OlGEaFn5rAfXwpMjOJj-9qf3B9595dzwL91l8lkU5sQik2OfER0fvxlcrdHLYHT4y84UsplPALXD4xNgswO_LbfhU4EQf7gaEsTy/w300-h400/IMG_2600.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next three photos are what awaits any trick-or-treaters when they enter the front hall….I don’t know what Ugly Kid Joe or Guns n Roses has to do with Halloween, but my mum constantly uses their flags as black backdrops to the Halloween goodies every year! 😅</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdqjY_wE9wB4SRmZWd0cJI48gB2jVPCEwg7fkQ-b1vLprKuYIDR8ffXsaUYRWY8gbmTPLmPtkwZwKrkt_4xGCrPENRLXU3_tW9KucBMVDc_krvooc3OduDCs6fGaQ6Jz_aicOWiaohvJODcb1cdDLIE6yfvhEG1EFMoATJAVwjxworKFyVHBL4L0mdXiS/s3264/IMG_2598.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaYoyAo3hILMz74aVKJumnDbHixP_7uZAq49Baz-lqFGU4Qnz-5M92INbWoBvJKKr5W7N_30gfj8QNfYmyBlkSAwxFYjq6-b1LE4UShyphenhyphen6f4yh_DAf9h8NUK0vrffJZJ2Z5pOPmbSIfZJMPWZEHUiooO-ZOMIiaZG0P1MNen5L5wmlNYZ0rP6gYuvbDN29/s3264/IMG_2596.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaYoyAo3hILMz74aVKJumnDbHixP_7uZAq49Baz-lqFGU4Qnz-5M92INbWoBvJKKr5W7N_30gfj8QNfYmyBlkSAwxFYjq6-b1LE4UShyphenhyphen6f4yh_DAf9h8NUK0vrffJZJ2Z5pOPmbSIfZJMPWZEHUiooO-ZOMIiaZG0P1MNen5L5wmlNYZ0rP6gYuvbDN29/w300-h400/IMG_2596.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">That last lot of spooks are just some masks stuck on the coat rack!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">————————————-</p><p style="text-align: center;">Well, I’d like to take this moment to wish you all a very Happy Halloween, and congrats on another very successful Countdown to Halloween! Now I can properly go through and catch up on all the posts, and so can you by clicking the badge below and heading over to the Countdown hub….</p><p style="text-align: center;">I’ll probably be a bit quieter on the blog for a bit, but I think I’ll be back at the start of December this year, for a bit of extra Creepmas celebrations! I might even manage another post or two tonight…we’ll see hiw we go, but have a great rest of the night everyone, and will see you all next year for another Countdown!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOS_bL4gtKeDdSkGPAmhug0HGO5GmX3VzNYMOfJD9Wvx2gxRt_zzvs65HKZWx-lHrsn_9bbwkS7Xdlrc43Qggh0RRwHvE0QCM5khX0ga_HZxk4jqydxepDNCc_B5j63iOoULrMDsYpin_tOQU5pBq0VdwC2VArmNhW_vq5w8JLMlN8hAKVOQcz2wVDSDTB/s1600/IMG_2325.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-86327927721081790472023-10-31T14:45:00.001+00:002023-10-31T14:45:44.237+00:00272 Gruesome Games So Far!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bk4YwP0rlIQ/VFba06N1i1I/AAAAAAAAD8Q/k0ptt1fb-dQ/s1600/los.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bk4YwP0rlIQ/VFba06N1i1I/AAAAAAAAD8Q/k0ptt1fb-dQ/w304-h400/los.jpg" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castlevania - Lord of Shadows (Xbox 360)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Over the years, I’ve obviously covered a lot of spooky games on the blog, and every now and then I’ll do a post with links to them all! This time though, I’ve painstakingly put them in to alphabetical order to make it easier to find specific games, which is for my benefit as well as yours, as I’m starting to forget what I’ve already covered! 😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here then, is all 272 games covered so far! Just click the name of the game you want to here about..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(Apologies for any missing pics or videos…will be spending a few days after Halloween trying to fix these broken things!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>* * *</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-no31-7th-guest-pc.html" target="_blank">The 7th Guest (PC)</a></u></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-60-56.html" target="_blank">The Addams Family (SNES)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-100-96.html" target="_blank">The Adventures Of Dr. Franken (SNES)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-another-xblig.html" target="_blank">After Dusk (XBLIG)</a></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-100-96.html" target="_blank">Alan Wake (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Alien Resurrection (PS1)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2021/10/gruesome-games-alone-in-dark-pc.html" target="_blank">Alone In The Dark (PC)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Alone In The Dark ~ The New Nightmare (GB Colour)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-73-70.html" target="_blank">Altered Beast (Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-60-56.html" target="_blank">Amnesia ~ The Dark Descent (PC)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/100-more-gruesome-games-42-39.html" target="_blank">Arachnophobia (Amiga) </a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games.html" target="_blank">The Astonishing Adventures Of Mr. Weems And The She Vampires (C64 / ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-19-16.html" target="_blank">Beetlejuice In ~ Skeletons In The Closet (PC)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_3.html" target="_blank">Big Karnak (Arcade)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-95-91.html" target="_blank">Bioshock (Xbox 360) </a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-2.html" target="_blank">Blair Witch (Xbox 1 / PC)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/game-reviews-blinkys-scary-school-zx.html" target="_blank">Blinky's Scary School (ZX Spectrum) </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_14.html" target="_blank">Blood (PC)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-65-61.html" target="_blank">Blood Will Tell (PS2)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">Bloody Death (XBLIG)</a></b><b><br /></b><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-90-86.html" target="_blank">Body Harvest (N64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank"><b>Bogey Manor (Arcade)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank"><b>Bonze Adventure (Arcade)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-3-more.html" target="_blank">Bram Stoker's Dracula (PC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-65-61.html" target="_blank">Bubble Ghost (Atari ST)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS2SkYauOSxYrBZ5as6PjEa1qUM-y8xf-Fd6pyt2tQkB11VZZwzIx37sNXwUbXpldN4we9Zm8AoA3fkLoGnad1rgsrMzw-HxS5xJYIJY6el8NIHGLJHLmArgy2wIP1vTGXlaMJYi9YlDbXOwn-gmmKOPmnpSlhfQdQDQdx8fiuHuGB56raRpsyJxwsbH3/s256/IMG_2586.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="256" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS2SkYauOSxYrBZ5as6PjEa1qUM-y8xf-Fd6pyt2tQkB11VZZwzIx37sNXwUbXpldN4we9Zm8AoA3fkLoGnad1rgsrMzw-HxS5xJYIJY6el8NIHGLJHLmArgy2wIP1vTGXlaMJYi9YlDbXOwn-gmmKOPmnpSlhfQdQDQdx8fiuHuGB56raRpsyJxwsbH3/w400-h350/IMG_2586.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Franken (SNES)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-90-86.html" target="_blank">Call Of Cthulhu ~ Dark Corners Of The Earth (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_19.html" target="_blank"><b>Castlevania (NES)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-no29-castlevania.html" target="_blank">Castlevania : A Spectral Interlude (ZX Spectrum)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-50-46.html" target="_blank">Castlevania ~ Lord Of Shadows (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-85-81.html" target="_blank">Castleween / Spirits & Spells (GBA)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-55-53.html" target="_blank">Castleween (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Cauldron (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/100-more-gruesome-games-36-35.html" target="_blank"><b>Chakan ~ The Forever Man (Megadrive / Genesis)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-65-61.html" target="_blank">Chiller (ZX Spectrum / C64)</a></b><br /><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-65-61.html" target="_blank">Chiller (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Clock Tower (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-70-66.html" target="_blank">Cold Fear (PS2)</a></b></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-85-81.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Condemned ~ Criminal Origins (Xbox 360)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Cotton (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-5-homebrew-horrors.html" target="_blank">Cursed Demons Of Wallachia (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-52-49.html" target="_blank"><b>Cursed Mountain (Wii)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpwsSfpMNns/UFkUciJIghI/AAAAAAAAA0s/W_0hxkgktTs/s1600/100+more.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CpwsSfpMNns/UFkUciJIghI/AAAAAAAAA0s/W_0hxkgktTs/s1600/100+more.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-75-71.html" target="_blank">Daemon Summoner (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_14.html" target="_blank">Dancing Monster (C64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_22.html" target="_blank">Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion (PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-65-61.html" target="_blank"><b>Dante's Inferno (C64)</b></a><br /><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-65-61.html" target="_blank">Dante's Inferno (Xbox 360) </a></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-80-76.html" target="_blank">The Darkness (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-85-81.html" target="_blank">Dark Seed (Amiga / PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-55-51.html" target="_blank">Darkstalkers (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Dark Tower (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank"><b>Darkwatch (PS2)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-52-49.html" target="_blank">Dead By Dawn (ZX Spectrum</a><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-52-49.html" target="_blank">)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/100-more-gruesome-games-48-46.html" target="_blank">Dead Island (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-another-xblig.html" target="_blank">Dead Kings (XBLIG)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-70-66.html" target="_blank">Deadly Evil (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Deadly Premonition (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">Dead Pixels (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-90-86.html" target="_blank">Dead Rising (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-55-51.html" target="_blank">Dead Space (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Death Jr. ~ Root Of Evil (Wii)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_5.html" target="_blank">Decap Attack (Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-no-34.html" target="_blank">Demolition Girl (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-another-xblig.html" target="_blank">Demon House (XBLIG)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Demon's World (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-73-70.html" target="_blank">Destroy All Humans (PS2)</a></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-80-76.html" target="_blank">The Detective Game (C64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2021/10/gruesome-games-devils-quest-zx-spectrum.html" target="_blank">Devil's Quest (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvBIJCEOOiMP7vhgj27L7SRrABxst7R6IryQb4Sx9nbcAqZwCB9eqf4Hj-NKJ7HAswA5eujbYmtUGaJHsPUBbZtaCVSwKNIc9GqFADtCBY5x6LBu5l8IYYD8DkwtmgTd44L5MLwFj4YPmPwxJHK8n3pstPaWfdp6ROZgTtcd4fxUmyJrqZtRDiUpghiKO/s400/IMG_2588.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="400" height="320" 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(NES)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-2-dracula.html" target="_blank">Dracula (Intellivision)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-2-dracula.html" target="_blank">Dracula : Crazy Vampire (Gameboy Colour)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-3-more.html" target="_blank">Dracula In London (PC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/100-more-gruesome-games-36-35.html" target="_blank">Dracula ~The Undead (Atari Lynx)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-2-dracula.html" target="_blank">Dracula Unleashed (PC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">Dr. Chaos (NES)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-75-71.html" target="_blank"><b>Earth Defense Force 2017 (Xbox 360)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Elvira ~ Mistress Of The Dark (Atari ST)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-55-53.html" target="_blank"><b>Elvira ~ The Arcade Game (Amiga)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_19.html" target="_blank">Escape from The Planet Of The Robot Monsters (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-evil-dead-special.html" target="_blank">The Evil Dead (C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-evil-dead-special.html" target="_blank">Evil Dead : Fistful Of Boomstick (Playstation 2)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-evil-dead-special.html" target="_blank">Evil Dead : Hail To The King (Playstation)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-evil-dead-special.html" target="_blank">Evil Dead : Regeneration (Xbox)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-evil-within-xbox-360-ps3.html" target="_blank">The Evil Within (Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3. PS4. PC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/100-more-gruesome-games-48-46.html" target="_blank">Extermination (PS2)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/100-more-gruesome-games-48-46.html" target="_blank"><b>Farenheit / Indigo Prophecy (Xbox)</b></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2019/10/gruesome-games-xbox-creators-collection.html" target="_blank">Foolish Mortals (Xbox One)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-60-56.html" target="_blank">Forbidden Forest (C64)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_19.html" target="_blank"><b>Forbidden Siren (PS2)</b></a></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-70-66.html" target="_blank"><b>Frankenstein (NES)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Frankenstein's Monster (Atari 2600)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Frank N Stein : Rebooted (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/100-more-gruesome-games-42-39.html" target="_blank">Freak Out / Stretch Panic (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-15-11-freddy-vs.html" target="_blank">Friday The 13th (NES)</a></b><br /><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-15-11-freddy-vs.html" target="_blank">Friday The 13th ~ The Computer Game (Spectrum / C64)</a></b></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-85-81.html" target="_blank">Frightmare (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-60-56.html" target="_blank">Fright Night (Amiga)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GStPXWkqn5w/Xbs11Ht_DBI/AAAAAAAAI-8/6f3wvvdivY8tJqjliniKumzmlK2wTMeUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Gruesome%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GStPXWkqn5w/Xbs11Ht_DBI/AAAAAAAAI-8/6f3wvvdivY8tJqjliniKumzmlK2wTMeUACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Gruesome%2B3.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe no Kitarō 2 (NES)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe no Kitarō: Fukkatsu! Tenma Daiou (SNES)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gyakushuu! Youkai Daichisen (PS1)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe no Kitarō: KiKi Ippatsu! Youkai Rettou (GBA)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe no Kitarō: Noroi noNikutu Katachi Tachi (PS1)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-gegege-no-kitaro.html" target="_blank">GeGeGe No Kitarō - Youkai Dai Makyou (NES)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games.html" target="_blank"><b>Ghost Battle (Amiga)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">Ghostblaster (Colecovision)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank"><b>Ghostbusters (Megadrive / Genesis)</b><b> </b></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-55-51.html" target="_blank">Ghost Castle 1 & 2 (ZX Spectrum)</a></b><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Ghost House (Sega Master System)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-60-56.html" target="_blank">Ghosthunters (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-5-homebrew-horrors.html" target="_blank">Ghostly Manor (MSX 2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_5.html" target="_blank">Ghost Manor (PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Ghost Sweeper Mikami (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-50-46.html" target="_blank">Ghoul School (NES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-65-61.html" target="_blank">Gogo The Ghost (C64)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-50-46.html" target="_blank">Go To Hell (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Grabbed By The Ghoulies (Xbox)</a></b><b><br /></b><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-100-96.html" target="_blank">Gregory Horror Show (PS2)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2014/12/gruesome-games-creepmas-special.html" target="_blank">Gremlins (ZX Spectrum)</a></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2014/12/gruesome-games-creepmas-special.html" target="_blank">Gremlins (Atari 2600)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0000ee; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;">Gremlins : The Adventure (ZX Spectrum)</span></div><div><span style="color: #0000ee; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2019/10/gruesome-games-xbox-creators-collection.html" target="_blank">Grinded Meat (Xbox One)</a></u></b></div><div><span style="color: #0000ee; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-guns-n-ghosts-commodore.html" target="_blank">Guns 'n' Ghosts (Commodore 64)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Halloween (Atari 2600)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-31-30.html" target="_blank"><b>Halloween Harry / Alien Carnage (PC)</b></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-5-homebrew-horrors.html" target="_blank">Halloweenie (C64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_3.html" target="_blank"><b>Haunted House (Atari 2600) </b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-haunted.html" target="_blank">The Haunted Mansion (Playstation 2)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_3.html" target="_blank">Haunting Ground (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Haunting ~ Starring Polterguy (Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2019/10/gruesome-games-hell-cab-pc-dos.html" target="_blank">Hell Cab (PC)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">Hell's House (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-5-homebrew-horrors.html" target="_blank">Hermano (Gameboy)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-80-76.html" target="_blank">Horror Zombies From The Crypt (Atari ST / Amiga / PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">I Maed A Gam3 W1th Zombies 1nit!!!1 (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-90-86.html" target="_blank">Invasion Of The Zombie Monsters (ZX Spectrum / MSX)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-isle-of-dead-pc.html" target="_blank">Isle Of The Dead (PC)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-75-71.html" target="_blank">It Came From The Desert (Amiga)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Joe Kowalski In ~ Haunted House (MSX)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-vpZuwAlGk/Xbs2xmx6dGI/AAAAAAAAI_E/-GidvyL84boHzeDeFP6AV9TvETNvR0TmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/son%2Bof.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="452" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g-vpZuwAlGk/Xbs2xmx6dGI/AAAAAAAAI_E/-GidvyL84boHzeDeFP6AV9TvETNvR0TmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/son%2Bof.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-60-56.html" target="_blank">Kid Dracula (Gameboy)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Knights & Demons DX (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_19.html" target="_blank">Koudelka (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0000ee; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration: underline;">The Last Guy (PS3)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-70-66.html" target="_blank">Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Luigi's Mansion (Gamecube)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-55-53.html" target="_blank">Mad Doctor (C64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/100-more-gruesome-games-38-37.html" target="_blank"><b>Magical Crystals (Arcade)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-60-56.html" target="_blank">Makai Prince Dorobochan (PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_14.html" target="_blank">Manhunt (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_8.html" target="_blank">Martian Gothic (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">Mashou no Yakata Gabalin (MSX)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-50-46.html" target="_blank"><b>Master Of Darkness (Sega Master System)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Maximo ~ Ghosts to Glory (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_8.html" target="_blank">Maxwell Manor (Atari 800)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-another-xblig.html" target="_blank">Medieval Zombies (XBLIG)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank"><b>Medievil (PS1)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">Midnight Bite (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-11-1.html" target="_blank">Minecraft (Various)</a></b><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-31-30.html" target="_blank"><b>The Mon Mon Monster (MSX2)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Monster Bash (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-2.html" target="_blank">Monster Madness - Battle for Suburbia (X360 / PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-19-16.html" target="_blank"><b>Monster Max (Gameboy)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-monster-movie.html" target="_blank">The Monster Movie Game (Commodore 64)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank"><b>Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess (XBLIG)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-95-91.html" target="_blank">Monster's World (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-19-16.html" target="_blank">The Mummy (GBA)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Mutation Nation (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-75-71.html" target="_blank">Mystic Marathon (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-mystic-midway.html" target="_blank">Mystic Midway : Phantom Express (PC/CDi)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-mystic-midway.html" target="_blank">Mystic Midway : Rest In Pieces (PC/CDi)</a></u></b></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-60-56.html" target="_blank">Mystic Riders (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Necronomicon ~ Dawning Of Darkness (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-69-66.html" target="_blank">Nightbreed ~ The Action Game (ZX Spectrum)</a></b><br /><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-69-66.html" target="_blank">Nightbreed ~ The Interactive Movie (Amiga)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-no22-night-creatures.html" target="_blank">Night Creatures (Turbo Grafx 16)</a></u></b></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5rA36m3TYLMhY1a9_ZGM2LWaM3B6E_5KN8DG8U1qfku72vFrGi2Jd7ORZWBX_NAjegeJxVxCFlMibvkNYC3u4OKqKC1lAMDNiQUcXAJxMLlAb9daXGMFDzc6xhRgmKlX1yBg64MeUwijGZ7yGNQkW-MuBoQn52DDsU4dWl4EHiexJ6sf-q7rmMxXBdVk/s320/IMG_2589.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5rA36m3TYLMhY1a9_ZGM2LWaM3B6E_5KN8DG8U1qfku72vFrGi2Jd7ORZWBX_NAjegeJxVxCFlMibvkNYC3u4OKqKC1lAMDNiQUcXAJxMLlAb9daXGMFDzc6xhRgmKlX1yBg64MeUwijGZ7yGNQkW-MuBoQn52DDsU4dWl4EHiexJ6sf-q7rmMxXBdVk/w400-h300/IMG_2589.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark Seed (Amiga/PC)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween.html" target="_blank">Night Hunter (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-70-66.html" target="_blank">Nightmare Creatures (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Nightmare In The Dark (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-15-11-freddy-vs.html" target="_blank"><b>A Nightmare On Elm Street (PC / C64)</b></a><br /><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-15-11-freddy-vs.html" target="_blank">A Nightmare On Elm Street (NES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-11-1.html" target="_blank"><b>Nightmare On Halloween Street (ZX Spectrum)</b></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_14.html" target="_blank">Night Trap (Mega CD)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-80-76.html" target="_blank"><b>Night Slashers (Arcade)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/son-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">Ninja Blade (Xbox 360)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-game-iii-no23-ninja-kids-arcade.html" target="_blank">Ninja Kids (Arcade)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween.html" target="_blank">Nosferatu (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-65-61.html" target="_blank">Nosferatu (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_22.html" target="_blank">Obscure (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-85-81.html" target="_blank">The Ooze (Sega Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_8.html" target="_blank">Otogi (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-overblood-ps1.html" target="_blank">Overblood (Playstation)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/100-more-gruesome-games-45-43.html" target="_blank"><b>Painkiller (PC)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Parasite Eve II (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_3.html" target="_blank">Personal Nightmare (Amiga)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween.html" target="_blank">Phantasmagoria (PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-73-70.html" target="_blank">Pinball Of The Dead (GBA)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Pocky & Rocky (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-another-xblig.html" target="_blank">Press X To Not Die (XBLIG)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Project Zero / Fatal Frame (PS2</a>)</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Realm Of The Dead (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-60-56.html" target="_blank"><b>Realms Of The Haunting (PC)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Red Dead Redemption ~ Undead Nightmare (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-80-76.html" target="_blank">Resident Evil ~ Dead Aim (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-four-more-with-gore.html" target="_blank">Resident Evil ~ Gaiden (Gameboy Color)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/100-more-gruesome-games-42-39.html" target="_blank">Sanitarium (PC)</a></b><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/100-more-gruesome-games-45-43.html" target="_blank">Satan's Hollow (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-29-25-xblig.html" target="_blank">Saturn 9 (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-no24-scarabaeus-c64.html" target="_blank">Scarabeus (C64)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-2.html" target="_blank">Scary Monsters (C64)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Scooby Doo Mystery (Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Scooby Doo Unmasked (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_22.html" target="_blank"><b>Scratches (PC)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-5-homebrew-horrors.html" target="_blank">Shadow Hunter (Amstrad)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-bElyXFcZUaATT_oTQT0gQG12jG79l3b-GU3rqM1RuvCetpi4YaQ2DZLcCsV4IRYvrJ1RdGHy8ziyfjX9Xnj0PKco_2T6bEOoDaNoFDZb7BdZ_mWBOBwp_lyCnC-_0GshdlFxXVihwB1-6rVWm_j4RONpuoqcgl6TFO0Y-JUN5ZEfwBjElDEFsuBsJK8/s956/IMG_2590.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-bElyXFcZUaATT_oTQT0gQG12jG79l3b-GU3rqM1RuvCetpi4YaQ2DZLcCsV4IRYvrJ1RdGHy8ziyfjX9Xnj0PKco_2T6bEOoDaNoFDZb7BdZ_mWBOBwp_lyCnC-_0GshdlFxXVihwB1-6rVWm_j4RONpuoqcgl6TFO0Y-JUN5ZEfwBjElDEFsuBsJK8/w335-h400/IMG_2590.png" width="335" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hell Cab (PC)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Shadowland (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-95-91.html" target="_blank">Shadowman (N64)</a></b><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_5.html" target="_blank">Shadows Of The Damned (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-65-61.html" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes vs Jack The Ripper (Xbox 360 / PC)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-73-70.html" target="_blank">Shin Megami Tensei (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Silent Hill (Playstation)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-52-49.html" target="_blank">Skeleton Warriors (PS1)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2017/10/gruesome-games-skull-zx-spectrum.html" target="_blank">Skull (ZX Spectrum / C64)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-four-more-with-gore.html" target="_blank">Splatterhouse (Arcade / PC Engine)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-69-66.html" target="_blank">Splatterhouse (Xbox 360)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-four-more-with-gore.html" target="_blank">Splatterhouse II (Megadrive / Genesis)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank"><b>Splatterhouse III (Megadrive / Genesis)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-69-66.html" target="_blank"><b>Splatterhouse ~ Wanpaku Graffiti (NES)</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">Splatter Master (PS2)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Spooked (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_5.html" target="_blank">Spooky Castle (C64)</a></b><b><br /></b><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-65-61.html" target="_blank">Stubbs The Zombie (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">The Suffering (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2015/10/gruesome-games-iii-no30-suffering-ties.html" target="_blank">The Suffering : Ties That Bind (Playstation 2)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/100-more-gruesome-games-8-1.html" target="_blank">Super Cauldron (Amiga)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-30-21.html" target="_blank">Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-60-56.html" target="_blank">Super Godzilla (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Sweet Home (NES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-11-1.html" target="_blank">Tenebra Macabre (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-10-1.html" target="_blank">The Thing (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank"><b>Three Dead Zed (XBLIG)</b></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-75-71.html" target="_blank">Trap Door (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-55-51.html" target="_blank">Trapt (PS2) </a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_8.html" target="_blank">Tricky Doc (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank">Twin Blades (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/100-more-gruesome-games-38-37.html" target="_blank">The Twisted Tales Of Spike McFang (SNES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-19-16.html" target="_blank">Under The Skin (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2019/10/gruesome-games-xbox-creators-collection.html" target="_blank">The Unknown City : Horror Begins Now (Part One ) (Xbox One)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank">Vital Force (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2022/10/gruesome-games-yokai-monk-zx-spectrum.html" target="_blank">Yokai Monk (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-50-46.html" target="_blank">Voodoo Vince (Xbox)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-2.html" target="_blank">War Of The Monsters (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-100-96.html" target="_blank">Weird Dreams (Amiga / Atari ST)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-95-91.html" target="_blank">Werewolves Of London (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">The Wicker Woman (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/100-more-gruesome-games-52-49.html" target="_blank">The X-Files ~ Resist Or Serve (PS2)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank">ZDQ II ~ Ghost Dogs (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/100-more-gruesome-games-42-39.html" target="_blank">Zombi (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2023/10/gruesome-games-four-more-with-gore.html" target="_blank">Zombi Mall (ZX Spectrum)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-zombie.html" target="_blank">Zombie Apocalypse (Amiga)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-zombie.html" target="_blank">Zombie Apocalypse 2 (Amiga)</a></u></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/100-more-gruesome-games-24-20-xblig.html" target="_blank">Zombie Death Quota (XBLIG)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-55-51.html" target="_blank">Zombie High (Megadrive)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-45-31.html" target="_blank">Zombie Nation (NES)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-90-86.html" target="_blank">Zombie Raid (Arcade)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/100-more-gruesome-games-for-halloween_19.html" target="_blank">Zombie Zombie (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-95-91.html" target="_blank">Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES / Megadrive / Genesis)</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/10/return-of-gruesome-games-zombo-zx_31.html" target="_blank">Zombo (ZX Spectrum)</a></u></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2016/12/return-of-gruesome-games-zombos.html" target="_blank">Zombo's Christmas Capers (ZX Spectrum)</a></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">ZXombies (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-return-of-gruesome-games-part-1.html" target="_blank">ZXombies - Dead Flesh (ZX Spectrum)</a></b></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">You’ll surely find something among that lot to play! If I have time later tonight, I might post another three which will take the total up to 275….but we’ll see how I go! I just thought I’d put this up in case I run out of time…</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just before I finish up this post though, there are even more Gruesome Games to be found in <i>Bitmap Books </i>latest addition to their library…</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkAyCirqZOgjPTKJI1oJBsuwONCxExjdCVUEwGZOJ3SNP7aC5jBDrEh50hrBrR3hpq5o9uAGRnrZgq9TRaDVgeqE3SK09mCfFZWs5gSbOMW84bTo4Ad8UHG9XFj1rrtw0GHefHwJhEQ96tcM8kP3_9CqsrPGF6ryHuW7CctYdJ-PU_0_6Az3DFaCGqpq-/s1248/IMG_2591.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1248" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkkAyCirqZOgjPTKJI1oJBsuwONCxExjdCVUEwGZOJ3SNP7aC5jBDrEh50hrBrR3hpq5o9uAGRnrZgq9TRaDVgeqE3SK09mCfFZWs5gSbOMW84bTo4Ad8UHG9XFj1rrtw0GHefHwJhEQ96tcM8kP3_9CqsrPGF6ryHuW7CctYdJ-PU_0_6Az3DFaCGqpq-/w400-h266/IMG_2591.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMag9OjM9YJzY5akjecKLYQgjAZnD0Ti3QGe1rZCieXz6tyQjX7Q9UPA_9tl9vm9N64fe_rbW8FcqU5MkGnJmVJPdzP9Sul-AEg9LN8_OToVeoDohFnOx42PlVLxLtLrpRhA-flkR89rHzjXWAqUmERp-hCfrbBE3AwSvlSmCEJ9BMYQ5aaZFVrRG7gbX/s1248/IMG_2592.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1248" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMag9OjM9YJzY5akjecKLYQgjAZnD0Ti3QGe1rZCieXz6tyQjX7Q9UPA_9tl9vm9N64fe_rbW8FcqU5MkGnJmVJPdzP9Sul-AEg9LN8_OToVeoDohFnOx42PlVLxLtLrpRhA-flkR89rHzjXWAqUmERp-hCfrbBE3AwSvlSmCEJ9BMYQ5aaZFVrRG7gbX/w400-h266/IMG_2592.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Due for release this very day, and with a groovy glow-in-the-dark cover comes <b>From Ants To Zombies,</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">a massive book filled with six decades worth of horror games…It looks to be an excellent resource, and I’ll be picking up a copy to see if there’s anything missing from my backlog of things still to cover in my own lists!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kz5pOZ8CYIp_GpnYstScg84nqw6UotVeER0TWRy_gxbXFKFGHZi6KFH1ri1WGpU3EFgOee0-FAy-9SYBew4ZZ7F5dZqEdXQtHrjT6d12iwa4PK1ACf4nUYs1g6ZVpkNzgI3U8Kq66T-TBDK6cM_nfM3WY0muDHwpjlRkNgZkP_mGLe3OisYI6Zc5xpGI/s1248/IMG_2593.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1248" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kz5pOZ8CYIp_GpnYstScg84nqw6UotVeER0TWRy_gxbXFKFGHZi6KFH1ri1WGpU3EFgOee0-FAy-9SYBew4ZZ7F5dZqEdXQtHrjT6d12iwa4PK1ACf4nUYs1g6ZVpkNzgI3U8Kq66T-TBDK6cM_nfM3WY0muDHwpjlRkNgZkP_mGLe3OisYI6Zc5xpGI/w400-h266/IMG_2593.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLLdapYDZBm0NFSjR1yhtlkvgafvVDgs99g5dvPr_fOSyNTg75v0oTPgcE-W_JoPceeGDyI9BX2hDTUkkwcLE9Wybj94hI6e9prxS7TQmCBU0ANsut1-adnq17EM8eLtNFtsO9RlVzAQxuZXfyQy29XvcmwwV1V8e_s3rVY9ccf6Gcf0z26tYJraGijsA/s1248/IMG_2594.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1248" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLLdapYDZBm0NFSjR1yhtlkvgafvVDgs99g5dvPr_fOSyNTg75v0oTPgcE-W_JoPceeGDyI9BX2hDTUkkwcLE9Wybj94hI6e9prxS7TQmCBU0ANsut1-adnq17EM8eLtNFtsO9RlVzAQxuZXfyQy29XvcmwwV1V8e_s3rVY9ccf6Gcf0z26tYJraGijsA/w400-h266/IMG_2594.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It’s £32.49, and more information can be found by clicking <a href="https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/from-ants-to-zombies-six-decades-of-video-game-horror" target="_blank">here</a>…</div><div style="text-align: center;">It still isn’t available at the time of me writing this, but it shouldn’t be too long before it becomes available for purchase!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">————————————</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can’t believe it’s the 31st already! Always comes around way too fast! I’ll hopefully have time to post another couple of things before the night is through, but for now I need to leave my flat and head back to my parents, with hopefully some spooky shenanigans once I get there! In the meantime, why not head over to the Countdown to Halloween hub, where you can find a list of all the cool Cryptkeepers who have spent another full month filling their blogs with creepy contributions to celebrate our favourite holiday!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just click the badge below to go check them out!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhssboBMVIxenMl3fx97Mo9FFRL6hn1OvinJG6lTZg6XfBOtINody1q_I0b_RLqqgK-cFfqdF1IDqmEU_-7H-F9twwcZpVSyi1ZhHsEXTTnQ17OsOA3XO-_GpPbPIG3-QMyHEquNfj-Ipm7F1iLv2Tq5QufhQZktv-aBbE2Acmsud6LJt4_xxyP8V_ovw2e/s1600/IMG_2324.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div></div>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-86550076935302778942023-10-30T22:33:00.004+00:002023-10-30T22:33:19.021+00:00Forever Dead!<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhvj6tMJ2RX0_cVlNkR7AKLI0VRcCQCR8Bs-hXUronFQRz84wtZbVmzBocGrZ5JIpvc6OOUtwadzUG74jlUXajiaAe5zu9fnZybukUMm3-abIdnwp-m6IeA0kMrJtI2hUToBGRvtpkylk3BowTDrkwkHFQp1_8ym-qSlBzzgyeMfCHDSzeKw7Yaxjijrz/s817/IMG_2580.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="817" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhvj6tMJ2RX0_cVlNkR7AKLI0VRcCQCR8Bs-hXUronFQRz84wtZbVmzBocGrZ5JIpvc6OOUtwadzUG74jlUXajiaAe5zu9fnZybukUMm3-abIdnwp-m6IeA0kMrJtI2hUToBGRvtpkylk3BowTDrkwkHFQp1_8ym-qSlBzzgyeMfCHDSzeKw7Yaxjijrz/w400-h385/IMG_2580.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Another strip from <i>Ajax</i>/<i>Farrell’s </i><b>Voodoo Issue 17, </b>dated Sept/Oct 1954, is what today’s visit to the vaults of the <b>Digital</b> <b>Comic</b> <b>Museum</b> has dug up! This one has a nice little twist on the ‘done to death’ be-careful-what-you-wish-for trope!</p><p style="text-align: center;">It was uploaded to the museum by <i>Yoc, </i>so thank you to them for the scans!</p><p style="text-align: center;">As always, clicking the pictures will let you enjoy a better view of those lovely comic panels!</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFTgH-cfOvUdUAV1juwk_7xbpzFMLjGaLY9jAcMqcv8z2OSA5GjjmtWR6rh-BBMUnyjvavx9xl-o-p5W6pdXKYiRZ-HjdqffB2Hksa-xxChtlv3gPgayg1R3sqM5B8MwfXWp7fFiqaEXX7kq0Rs2fvNPPfEid3OjAK5e3dddp0cmnkMZ-76L64WYxMnMR/s3000/IMG_2578.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2189" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFTgH-cfOvUdUAV1juwk_7xbpzFMLjGaLY9jAcMqcv8z2OSA5GjjmtWR6rh-BBMUnyjvavx9xl-o-p5W6pdXKYiRZ-HjdqffB2Hksa-xxChtlv3gPgayg1R3sqM5B8MwfXWp7fFiqaEXX7kq0Rs2fvNPPfEid3OjAK5e3dddp0cmnkMZ-76L64WYxMnMR/w291-h400/IMG_2578.jpeg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Don’t you just love a happy ending!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Talking of endings, the Countdown to Halloween itself is about to come to an abrupt halt tomorrow as we reach the big day itself! As usual, it has come around way too fast, but it does mean that after a last few posts I can finally get around to reading everyone else’s stuff properly! You don’t need to wait to enjoy them though…just click the badge below and you’ll be taken to the Countdown hub, where you’ll find a list of all of the Cryptkeepers!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUa2jrOeRQTSpe-XE6KSVBFNhoEi3I5rBb8VmXSAEHBEhuWteTxRm_ZW9haVuDB5NrgWt367wclvcqizwvjOrbFvOkhDriN11WEgkJStpIP_DAWKOKaSeH7-UoHDgCxsUgCIl5pOfze7ayIq_ixtiNfGt4kL___o5gMBpwmWok1zHyKVgT9Tf0sioJ55xU/s1600/IMG_2323.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-82855228697654453332023-10-29T19:01:00.008+00:002023-10-29T19:01:53.779+00:00Spook Sightings of Yester Year - No.25 - The Caledonian Mills Fire Spook (Part 3)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCr2gN_ho_9eQd8_XTwxAmjWjDhrQn1YKqExHlnKnxRyvORpkUwwUqZT7HZaTOwyMSFxHvK-CLQnb3i9RIknW1C4xWdILSJ64_uuyTQ8SamMEtSPxwaq4HfMMb0IHWUR0wxzB_5wQqp6Nq9DJhY_vi3bvK102x3VlHemC0-7sYG8Toytl7kCkHOcxr2POE/s296/baffled%20and%20puzzled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="132" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCr2gN_ho_9eQd8_XTwxAmjWjDhrQn1YKqExHlnKnxRyvORpkUwwUqZT7HZaTOwyMSFxHvK-CLQnb3i9RIknW1C4xWdILSJ64_uuyTQ8SamMEtSPxwaq4HfMMb0IHWUR0wxzB_5wQqp6Nq9DJhY_vi3bvK102x3VlHemC0-7sYG8Toytl7kCkHOcxr2POE/w178-h400/baffled%20and%20puzzled.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">And so we've reached the part of the investigation of the Caledonia Mills fires where a policeman was sent to find out what all the hoopla was about. <b>Detective "Peachie" Carroll</b>, a detective with some local fame and admiration for his swift conclusions in deducing several murder cases, set off for the McDonald house along with reporter<b> Harold B. Whidden</b>, convinced that he knew the answer to the fire origins already. But after speaking to the witnesses, seeing the scorch marks for himself and spending a couple of nights at the house, he was now convinced that the antics were of a supernatural origin...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From The Boston Globe, dated Sunday 5th March, 1922</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;">Not content to let such curious happenings pass without some attempt being made to solve the mystery, the Halifax Herald retained the services of one of Nova Scotia's best known criminal investigators, P.O. Carroll of Pictou. Mr. Carroll, formerly a chief of police, has the solving of several baffling criminal mysteries to his credit.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Extremely skeptical regarding the "spook" theory, Mr. Carroll expressed his willingness to conduct an investigation, and before leaving for the scene of the mystery with Harold Whidden, Herald reporter, he stated that he was confident the human being who was responsible for the fires and other happenings would soon be under lock and key.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni5Y_lDGu2-AGaa4bj98Qpm5rfmGb2nfluocxEo4kY522dBkKM9ITABZ-O6UQqtwa_JAlfmIA6gg-WgWz0Wjh4kPmhhDYYbo35EfcPx32FNvMhj-tQFzNR3ongCupRUXG3LVuSPyu11G6XOoU_9nqFAWDJ9nGLlCdCoej8yc5leKtW9Mn3l3icjLJxLw0/s287/Alex%20McDonald.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="182" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni5Y_lDGu2-AGaa4bj98Qpm5rfmGb2nfluocxEo4kY522dBkKM9ITABZ-O6UQqtwa_JAlfmIA6gg-WgWz0Wjh4kPmhhDYYbo35EfcPx32FNvMhj-tQFzNR3ongCupRUXG3LVuSPyu11G6XOoU_9nqFAWDJ9nGLlCdCoej8yc5leKtW9Mn3l3icjLJxLw0/s1600/Alex%20McDonald.png" width="182" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alexander McDonald (or MacDonald)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Blows in the Dark</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">His conviction was strengthened by the fact that during the first night he and the reporter spent in the house nothing unusual occurred. Members of the McDonald family were interviewed by Mr. Carroll, also the witnesses who were present the last night the family spent in the house. The detective was not successful, however, in locating any clew which would substantiate his claim that the fires were of human origin.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The second night of their stay was bitterly cold, so cold that they could not sleep. Alexander McDonald had agreed to return to the scene, and was in the house with them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The early part of the night was spent huddled around a big fire in the kitchen, where they all went to sleep. At midnight, they lay down in their blankets for a rest and immediately things began to happen.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Soft-padded footsteps were heard from the upper regions of the house, mysterious rappings came from the outside walls, and as they lay quiet and listened, Whidden, the reporter, felt a sharp slap on his arm. Questioningly, he turned to Carroll.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">"Did you strike me then?" he asked.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Complete silence reigned for a space of five minutes. Then Carroll, in a strangely subdued voice replied:</p><p style="text-align: center;">"No, Whidden, I didn't touch you : I felt a slap on my arm, almost at the same time you spoke."</p><p style="text-align: center;">They both looked over in the direction of McDonald, who although not asleep, seemed to be in half-stupor.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---------------</p><p style="text-align: center;">Skeptics would jeer at them for their opinion, they knew, and to forestall this ridicule Whidden and Carroll issued statements through the Herald describing their experiences, and each offered $100 to any one who could prove within a year that the mysterious happenings were not caused by supernatural or preternatural agencies.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH06j2V7G3wWR2-Q-wvuqISyzc6uRrkdiZWS_azNkMUz9Aa0UAlF8Rda8DHRfPWHJPLmoAbywgdHaweC9GtgS_KIx7e2r-Y26QbduH64XfLAHsWy7Z5x7n_BgUKsNxzQCaYM7pwKhWvmCmdLBqYndNwi1OMMqrO8M6bNC5Kv5-hZsZZfSttlqX9JLGfZwb/s612/baffled%20and%20puzzled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="537" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH06j2V7G3wWR2-Q-wvuqISyzc6uRrkdiZWS_azNkMUz9Aa0UAlF8Rda8DHRfPWHJPLmoAbywgdHaweC9GtgS_KIx7e2r-Y26QbduH64XfLAHsWy7Z5x7n_BgUKsNxzQCaYM7pwKhWvmCmdLBqYndNwi1OMMqrO8M6bNC5Kv5-hZsZZfSttlqX9JLGfZwb/w351-h400/baffled%20and%20puzzled.jpg" width="351" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the Evening Mail, dated Thursday 16th of February, 1922</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From the Evening Mail, dated Wednesday 15th February, 1922</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>CARROLL OBTAINS STATEMENT FROM EYE - WITNESS</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The following is a statement which Detective Carroll obtained from Michael MacGillivray, of Caledonia Mills. It is confirmed by John F. Kenny, also of Caledonia Mills, by the detective :</p><p style="text-align: center;">At the post office, probably four and a half miles from the Alex McDonald house, Michael MacGillivray, who lived in the next house, only a few yards away, was waiting for us by appointment. He gave his age as 22, and related the following experience :</p><p style="text-align: center;">On Thursday morning, he and John F. Kenny, a neighbor, proceeded to visit the McDonald house, thinking that they might be of some assistance to the people who had just come through such a hard ordeal. "We arrived there at about 10 o'clock," said Michael MacGillivray. "When we were about ten yards - I should judge it to be ten yards - from the house, I saw a white hand, and a naked arm from the elbow down, which looked like a human hand and arm, through the window in the north-east part of the house - the parlor - O<b>VER THE STAIRWAY It held a piece of white cotton, probably seven inches long and four inches wide. It shook or waved this cotton across the window from the inside THREE TIMES.</b> We were walking towards it all the time. I asked Kenny: <b>"Did you see that?" "Yes," he replied.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">---------------</p><p style="text-align: center;">"We ran toward the house and entered the kitchen door. We found Mrs. Alex McDonald, Mary Ellen McDonald, Duncan McDonald, Alex. D. McIsaac and Colin McIsaac in the kitchen, preparing to move. </p><p style="text-align: center;">"I asked Duncan McDonald if any one had been in the parlor just before we came. <b>He said NO, they had all been in the kitchen.</b> I examined the window in the parlor over the stairway where we saw the arm and hand holding the piece of cotton. There was nobody there and I could no cotton. There was no frost on the window. A short time after that, Dan MacGillivray came with a team and began to move the furniture."</p><p style="text-align: center;">John F. Kenny, who was with Michael MacGillivray when this mysterious hand was seen, was not at home, but MacGillivray said that they both could take out sworn affidavits that it was all true.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---------------</p><p style="text-align: center;">Duncan McDonald told us, either on Tuesday or Wednesday night of this strange happening, and that Michael MacGillivray had spoken to him about it when he entered the house. They did not say anything to Mrs. McDonald or Mary Ellen about it, because it would only make matters worse - they had gone through enough - and it would only frighten them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"Are you prepared to give this evidence under oath," Michael MacGillivray was asked. "Yes, certainly:" he replied</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> ~* * * ~</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">So, Peachie Carroll and Harold are now convinced that the spooks are real, despite public opinion leaning more to the human suspect angle. Of course all this uncertainty means that the newspaper couldn't pay out for the best theories yet, as everything was all still unproven either way, and so they let their readers know that things might take a bit longer...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltvb_jVfrk2zXrHFAh3rF9WUlfed6EZmeXCCIOHh66luA8Jeu2IsLIWVZhnZT-Nu567AxmbBdnIkHsgaIPgDsKbTBAgtZfA_stLw5lTwb8pZUbEdbVIno_j0GpR8s-rZ5z8ARDi5SwHi9jKZM-bS1uRPkNKBqSQC1e0eKMQYU-cdyZESaghSVCpYy0CSM/s567/wait%20for%20science.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="183" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltvb_jVfrk2zXrHFAh3rF9WUlfed6EZmeXCCIOHh66luA8Jeu2IsLIWVZhnZT-Nu567AxmbBdnIkHsgaIPgDsKbTBAgtZfA_stLw5lTwb8pZUbEdbVIno_j0GpR8s-rZ5z8ARDi5SwHi9jKZM-bS1uRPkNKBqSQC1e0eKMQYU-cdyZESaghSVCpYy0CSM/w129-h400/wait%20for%20science.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">But what are you lot thinking about the case now? For me, I'm wondering where Alex McDonald was during the hand waving spook appearance...he seems to be the one most present when things are happening, including the double slap incident!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Well, it turns out the story about Old McDonald's farm isn't over yet...there aren't more fires here, or more fires there, but there is one main trick that the spook has up it's sleeve (do ghosts have sleeves?) that will really divide opinion among the believers and non-believers, as our intrepid reporter Whidden teams up with a paranormal-investigating doctor who arrives on the scene....</p><p style="text-align: center;">However, I've found a wealth more information on the investigation that <b>Walter Franklin Prince, PHD </b>executes, and it's going to take a lot more writing, more than I could cover in the next couple of days...so why not pop back at the start of December, when I hope to cover the rest of this ghastly ghostly tale for <b>Creepmas</b>!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b>TO BE CONTINUED........</b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">---------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Be sure to head over to the Countdown hub where you can find links to all of this year's participants! Just click the badge below to be whisked right over there......</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkzMdcQ-wYdRyoFWMF4Xv57tbcdHA85YUgaaf4ekY6-KvHGEQHj9HX79S6f-FoucU49MJSgb1Y2Q-O3R3Uh3RqbuFf61C8jj_wqAsAr0WuiT9pRqOLQGpM4Yr9q2D53p1sdj56QDVjLr5sEx5EOnPtAjBc04gF-Uug4N1rdwx82ChtHg5VIbnQsQsaQo1/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-02.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-21965384193931227072023-10-28T23:59:00.008+01:002023-10-29T00:13:58.536+01:00Some unexpected Halloween Pick-ups!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qq3Di9xPt6S6ZjZNGKoDNUCg1SZ3bHPvUiOGp1CP8gGuaEWK9_9Kh83bnQWrndTXduX-j_kCSQ-zcXLF7V6wPq2f74puOq4p_E98fqlGk7pi7TZM1F27gWLvO2-Z9s3sTvT7q-iVQCEutfq8Z7yLYuwhi5WJI72OjqeiSI0Ja1ANeRSzRueQb2oi2esq/s2828/IMG_2568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2828" data-original-width="2146" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qq3Di9xPt6S6ZjZNGKoDNUCg1SZ3bHPvUiOGp1CP8gGuaEWK9_9Kh83bnQWrndTXduX-j_kCSQ-zcXLF7V6wPq2f74puOq4p_E98fqlGk7pi7TZM1F27gWLvO2-Z9s3sTvT7q-iVQCEutfq8Z7yLYuwhi5WJI72OjqeiSI0Ja1ANeRSzRueQb2oi2esq/w304-h400/IMG_2568.jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">So today I decided to randomly head in to town for a wander round the shops, which was something I was planning to do tomorrow instead, but we just got a weather warning for more wind and rain…so I decided I’d be better getting it out of the way while it was fairly dry! I had also originally decided to head straight in to Edinburgh, but instead got off the bus halfway through the journey and walked around some of the charity shops in a town called Dalkeith instead…</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01iBOFb7WtPzwFE2n41hqGWW7Y4L_GiGFZS6jZvXM6V8xKkH3KoL7LtPmEuyyqTcssoPln4pgcxBSFb9lckv0taouwQF7eiNiQW90UO8a9Mtmnbop-GXq-xQwreMdW4zf1UWg3bSNDYuNujaaBB9-8YC6RfFcW04sv27WykpPHsjWRH-rzwBEL1K83PWB/s2728/IMG_2575.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2728" data-original-width="2265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01iBOFb7WtPzwFE2n41hqGWW7Y4L_GiGFZS6jZvXM6V8xKkH3KoL7LtPmEuyyqTcssoPln4pgcxBSFb9lckv0taouwQF7eiNiQW90UO8a9Mtmnbop-GXq-xQwreMdW4zf1UWg3bSNDYuNujaaBB9-8YC6RfFcW04sv27WykpPHsjWRH-rzwBEL1K83PWB/w333-h400/IMG_2575.jpeg" width="333" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">…and I’m glad I did! As the first thing I saw when entering my first shop was the slightly-dented, tin box of Magnetic Monster Action Figures you can see here and at the top of the page! This is basically a metal-shaped, modernised version of the Fuzzy Felt I showed earlier in the month! It was mine for only £3, although I’ve unfortunately discovered it’s missing a few shapes…but I can’t really complain as it’s still cheaper than it would be bought new. I’ve already created my first monster!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfzXVBp4Ig3IaUI7oKWJGF9G3h_mplYIJSljXu01ad0eioS1H6bBc17REcXSS6AcZGafVlAgvF94EXIsGWFnQdexTd6Mwz0ilkj9Iy_hPeBPWH9yz0HN8m2iEO5HxqK9TZpultMt1dln-zm5kQG8yxwIPakQERgZDaZYUWLyWdUGvnun58LEBu1FA-cyC/s3264/IMG_2539.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfzXVBp4Ig3IaUI7oKWJGF9G3h_mplYIJSljXu01ad0eioS1H6bBc17REcXSS6AcZGafVlAgvF94EXIsGWFnQdexTd6Mwz0ilkj9Iy_hPeBPWH9yz0HN8m2iEO5HxqK9TZpultMt1dln-zm5kQG8yxwIPakQERgZDaZYUWLyWdUGvnun58LEBu1FA-cyC/w400-h300/IMG_2539.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">In the next shop, I discovered something that I already own, but mine has fallen into disrepair. This one is in a lot better condition….</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFacwGr7x832ycqbU8YPtE9hyZTmc8tRcK84e77cQo6ZL_0bEBkRY7JL45DNVsLOFi66UTN6jNPxw73CVY2-ulcyTybNeLv1pwyGLd_TkDOlCU3BRl7v2dPYvFnbHUAjVlsGyLgs9NjnAuqBCL2QiCpTKFL2znbzIEWTCPg3o7LG4adjT-CiOZMf9Hlyz/s2816/IMG_2565.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2816" data-original-width="1961" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFacwGr7x832ycqbU8YPtE9hyZTmc8tRcK84e77cQo6ZL_0bEBkRY7JL45DNVsLOFi66UTN6jNPxw73CVY2-ulcyTybNeLv1pwyGLd_TkDOlCU3BRl7v2dPYvFnbHUAjVlsGyLgs9NjnAuqBCL2QiCpTKFL2znbzIEWTCPg3o7LG4adjT-CiOZMf9Hlyz/w279-h400/IMG_2565.jpeg" width="279" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For only £2 I have a much better copy of the excellent pop-up book, <b>Haunted</b> <b>House</b> by Jan Pienkowski!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0URQkVuvCjUEv56hfyk05-NOrv3gSwLlVMR41Etf2UgUEcI8LpQSq6EWG6b8g0rtjiyww5Q5KkMZq5cAYSzDpruN5yu8xct9BXSEtDgLA881caomq0DHNJDucX8ztxFzf1M6iySLQACfXrk8iTwBLXfLWUIIsGhseGgo3kxu6HQgWCFOic4p1m30S1YC/s2568/IMG_2549.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2568" data-original-width="2402" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0URQkVuvCjUEv56hfyk05-NOrv3gSwLlVMR41Etf2UgUEcI8LpQSq6EWG6b8g0rtjiyww5Q5KkMZq5cAYSzDpruN5yu8xct9BXSEtDgLA881caomq0DHNJDucX8ztxFzf1M6iySLQACfXrk8iTwBLXfLWUIIsGhseGgo3kxu6HQgWCFOic4p1m30S1YC/w374-h400/IMG_2549.jpeg" width="374" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Anyway, I then headed into Edinburgh and went to couple more charity shops, and in one of them, I discovered some more Alan Class comics..something else I mentioned in a previous post this month….but these ones were even rarer than usual…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdBCt-PgIWF_IfRAx0vYq3Z_Asbr0oBHUNlBwGVu7MR3mY6PxL3P0eC4tXH3gAHEZdvu8EMKDiV_T7EH9gSXMcFYcZt5Yjd6AUWVED6sA4EmhM-g94c56XUzAtgtpGbjf6V-p-pJ55S9soQd8cs0VTFQ1yFOX4gO98ij_LksFZNpwmTzfAc9oHDSvfIv3/s3264/IMG_2547.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdBCt-PgIWF_IfRAx0vYq3Z_Asbr0oBHUNlBwGVu7MR3mY6PxL3P0eC4tXH3gAHEZdvu8EMKDiV_T7EH9gSXMcFYcZt5Yjd6AUWVED6sA4EmhM-g94c56XUzAtgtpGbjf6V-p-pJ55S9soQd8cs0VTFQ1yFOX4gO98ij_LksFZNpwmTzfAc9oHDSvfIv3/w400-h300/IMG_2547.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyxQkVAo5-kQ1P9MpSjm9ZQtnWdglwAQNKqbbgWO-9hccYmi0dmPvWq6_uolUh_K9Uq-kz7ZgZ7beveYNrRwheJWRFwN8Yr5U3lVREkbEPotUoIMkC2anxNH_H_2xUzaAigUpRQrGBzdyjNdNVMf5DHuuZe-Cto4pRcBY_s6PYzwjzz1c2TkbllA8xPoz/s3264/IMG_2576.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqyxQkVAo5-kQ1P9MpSjm9ZQtnWdglwAQNKqbbgWO-9hccYmi0dmPvWq6_uolUh_K9Uq-kz7ZgZ7beveYNrRwheJWRFwN8Yr5U3lVREkbEPotUoIMkC2anxNH_H_2xUzaAigUpRQrGBzdyjNdNVMf5DHuuZe-Cto4pRcBY_s6PYzwjzz1c2TkbllA8xPoz/w400-h300/IMG_2576.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2T4RcTq5WToKxwwpjjH-z_zzcttY5uZGjC8FQqqhyphenhyphenxi48V5G1OJCUxuAHtxty0mtk1I4XR0OqvfeG4eguMygk4nWRTufpkelXd-sNrMgJL76_T_FtkBZGpZcKqUMEaBJPi8nc_pHimQQiQC0SCAZcC5zj8ja1_qiv020wJPD6cIddEVAPqgJkIcPwUyWP/s2986/IMG_2577.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2257" data-original-width="2986" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2T4RcTq5WToKxwwpjjH-z_zzcttY5uZGjC8FQqqhyphenhyphenxi48V5G1OJCUxuAHtxty0mtk1I4XR0OqvfeG4eguMygk4nWRTufpkelXd-sNrMgJL76_T_FtkBZGpZcKqUMEaBJPi8nc_pHimQQiQC0SCAZcC5zj8ja1_qiv020wJPD6cIddEVAPqgJkIcPwUyWP/w400-h303/IMG_2577.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As well as the usual spooky tales, these issues of <b>Creepy</b> <b>Worlds</b> contain some of the first British appearances of Spider-Man, which was licensed to Alan Class before Marvel decided to start releasing comics over here themselves! £4 each was the asking price on these!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And that about did it for the charity shop finds, but there was a few other noteworthy pick-ups! First there was the food…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlXpF0YcepPz-Ks2ol6F7sZ6dXSBgZGyRw2EUsAaX4Yl_3pwEfGy6XWN3IBLjiBVfM2UdBFlEkfXGlMT8lmViN6sqhXAKNXiCwZNvdU-1uItH5x-hpytsdsjEVprkgVuWjTTVgGZW0UhSWdPCveZpOyNg7o42ai4saWuEl505OU_Q6FYqs_sIhodTFWRT/s3264/IMG_2559.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlXpF0YcepPz-Ks2ol6F7sZ6dXSBgZGyRw2EUsAaX4Yl_3pwEfGy6XWN3IBLjiBVfM2UdBFlEkfXGlMT8lmViN6sqhXAKNXiCwZNvdU-1uItH5x-hpytsdsjEVprkgVuWjTTVgGZW0UhSWdPCveZpOyNg7o42ai4saWuEl505OU_Q6FYqs_sIhodTFWRT/w400-h300/IMG_2559.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A nice selection of crisps and candy, which isn’t for Trick or Treaters, but for me to munch on while I work on my last few Countdown posts! Here’s a closer look at the stuff..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhtuTvQMUUIInZljDi1MrDH1O_H00M_13kHTTEa5toIRGSOefXxgkckt-lIHcvOCtC9N-asFgYcpDoJgC1wQApLiUgfxOs307Q2IT_ZY8XNxnnildI3lXh0dRCgqhv5xx9BGxPi-OSfU7mnM_x7jkyONi4cOrs21Zzdn81i8Ni_rDi7XGVPfbdOCHT8cy/s3261/IMG_2560.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="3261" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhtuTvQMUUIInZljDi1MrDH1O_H00M_13kHTTEa5toIRGSOefXxgkckt-lIHcvOCtC9N-asFgYcpDoJgC1wQApLiUgfxOs307Q2IT_ZY8XNxnnildI3lXh0dRCgqhv5xx9BGxPi-OSfU7mnM_x7jkyONi4cOrs21Zzdn81i8Ni_rDi7XGVPfbdOCHT8cy/w400-h99/IMG_2560.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First up are the Booo Mallows, (£1) which at first I thought consisted of skulls and pumpkins, but looking more closely at the piece below, you can tell it’s ghosts and pumpkins!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZq0axTa6uhY9yLDQZVpqT8Yh7UbOMjdO7aqZEwy86CG4GCgFmYKL6LkHpOiKX9kkvq3vmbSlOLrm_5e_UgYjrfNobKOA0wr-OzihBK7BBnZYBhJB0uOlnGVT65tkDgRwC64op5BCeAP3sJOQAIwnfluZ3SMm2H79BnKU_BKmMZJgMWhp7cxgE-WyuKqWM/s1379/IMG_2561.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="1304" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZq0axTa6uhY9yLDQZVpqT8Yh7UbOMjdO7aqZEwy86CG4GCgFmYKL6LkHpOiKX9kkvq3vmbSlOLrm_5e_UgYjrfNobKOA0wr-OzihBK7BBnZYBhJB0uOlnGVT65tkDgRwC64op5BCeAP3sJOQAIwnfluZ3SMm2H79BnKU_BKmMZJgMWhp7cxgE-WyuKqWM/w379-h400/IMG_2561.jpeg" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIbZU8HsNCn4VMJy1QzkzW4YIosH0YR60lbJORU0HN_1ervFoqbo97p_RpCszU9L7KkPrLA-mLpdu1H1L7I67IG8GEYCO7nnQlr75NYpn-fmw8SFM6_1J89aSM4RbYWXaoxSd06My8ZUFirsbNo7Tn_PgVhKcKKIt10z0OU9fBL6ScUAxHWCvoeabzj6E/s3264/IMG_2562.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIbZU8HsNCn4VMJy1QzkzW4YIosH0YR60lbJORU0HN_1ervFoqbo97p_RpCszU9L7KkPrLA-mLpdu1H1L7I67IG8GEYCO7nnQlr75NYpn-fmw8SFM6_1J89aSM4RbYWXaoxSd06My8ZUFirsbNo7Tn_PgVhKcKKIt10z0OU9fBL6ScUAxHWCvoeabzj6E/w400-h300/IMG_2562.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next up are the Boo! Chews, (£1) which disappointingly are just normal chews with some Halloween themed bagging….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxAMTvxRC8ulAjR8nLHBHcxO-fTEGwibkyq0UtnyddzXpbNIi4tTylarropUtOXjON0Ykge3sbWroYfAGH4OH4MOi8tFPl8hzXtRiimBgDCsb0x49fd8MJXxw0aE0xtLPbI5OLI9z3wuSYHDR7BweiU3HJCpD6GimS6vK8okozsFtDSHguT8WJQXBbWB5/s3264/IMG_2563.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxAMTvxRC8ulAjR8nLHBHcxO-fTEGwibkyq0UtnyddzXpbNIi4tTylarropUtOXjON0Ykge3sbWroYfAGH4OH4MOi8tFPl8hzXtRiimBgDCsb0x49fd8MJXxw0aE0xtLPbI5OLI9z3wuSYHDR7BweiU3HJCpD6GimS6vK8okozsFtDSHguT8WJQXBbWB5/w400-h300/IMG_2563.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And these monstrous Thingies, (£1.25) are just cheap knock-off versions of Monster Munch, which is a favourite corn snack of mine available all year round!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last for food items, are these yummy cakes (£3.50)….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW7LItD4aEC5hibVDN8SpdKPw1-6HatxTr1jylhnVUCwMQpI_A148jGXLLnXaChqMCdIfRExeKXcrMB38F_4weZ_L4r1bMELGRXvLO1h7_DIvDqG4xyBgQIG8IxRjZfKuNToL59eZT5XkPdmKObZ779I9ZaPcBp-DBeO-0ZYXVyoMWYN3Fkn5-moAv9pF/s2321/IMG_2572.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2188" data-original-width="2321" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQW7LItD4aEC5hibVDN8SpdKPw1-6HatxTr1jylhnVUCwMQpI_A148jGXLLnXaChqMCdIfRExeKXcrMB38F_4weZ_L4r1bMELGRXvLO1h7_DIvDqG4xyBgQIG8IxRjZfKuNToL59eZT5XkPdmKObZ779I9ZaPcBp-DBeO-0ZYXVyoMWYN3Fkn5-moAv9pF/w400-h378/IMG_2572.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnG3qx2q6Vy4sAiPPKeH-OXvU3wx_kf0D4sHBKSWI2f3dQ5DvHMgAtm9Zz6MFR5F5BXzOf5uJDQF9t_JPe66WB5oRuPZQX66lZv8NmIunaOw3w44qWt4GDRFCp3HnD0RQ5DrwbLORt7RClhWicYctwuo_VXdt7nYBlq-xtIjcriVs-owIYo6b8FgFSD7W/s2586/IMG_2573.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2323" data-original-width="2586" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgnG3qx2q6Vy4sAiPPKeH-OXvU3wx_kf0D4sHBKSWI2f3dQ5DvHMgAtm9Zz6MFR5F5BXzOf5uJDQF9t_JPe66WB5oRuPZQX66lZv8NmIunaOw3w44qWt4GDRFCp3HnD0RQ5DrwbLORt7RClhWicYctwuo_VXdt7nYBlq-xtIjcriVs-owIYo6b8FgFSD7W/w400-h359/IMG_2573.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Those aren’t going to last until Halloween! 😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lastly were some magazine pick-ups, one of which isn’t spooky at all but still comes recommended to any gamers out there…it’s the always wonderful Retro Gamer magazine (£5.40)! And this collection from Fortean Times is all about spooks and spook sightings, so it’s definitely worthy of being included in a Halloween pick-up list (£6.99)!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5WzCnAVF0wi5uVFOM1hlWZCeGFMaxfpO7uIwyLKVVMtccBhPEWlAuCvlWFXTn_Xt_qs-Sdd8wBcbc_GxD4hFUWKkDcavIZzH_QqKzAvBBq1NWKO-04uIQkIorQla-EzgDfdacl-g0_BzxS_RCGTvQJ20Vm8iDrkUMjoTrgfRyyqiQkb74lcR33bUzlzO/s2815/IMG_2566.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2815" data-original-width="2119" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5WzCnAVF0wi5uVFOM1hlWZCeGFMaxfpO7uIwyLKVVMtccBhPEWlAuCvlWFXTn_Xt_qs-Sdd8wBcbc_GxD4hFUWKkDcavIZzH_QqKzAvBBq1NWKO-04uIQkIorQla-EzgDfdacl-g0_BzxS_RCGTvQJ20Vm8iDrkUMjoTrgfRyyqiQkb74lcR33bUzlzO/w301-h400/IMG_2566.jpeg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWiNXajTntpPof4gvZQcfwToDWjAbs6APNzVxhnhmT_FdOGYebh_XFAGx7bR7n6vt3fG0BPfuVkuJ1p5OYOfIgwoKJTCaD9EcjajpbXpjGqiRitUI2MwSiLG9Nc3eenR90AaS1-S7R9-ao4YDbyRiufNUQh-C90YCu1MZ8lQf5tnOutpSJDzLpU4NkrY-/s3264/IMG_2567.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWiNXajTntpPof4gvZQcfwToDWjAbs6APNzVxhnhmT_FdOGYebh_XFAGx7bR7n6vt3fG0BPfuVkuJ1p5OYOfIgwoKJTCaD9EcjajpbXpjGqiRitUI2MwSiLG9Nc3eenR90AaS1-S7R9-ao4YDbyRiufNUQh-C90YCu1MZ8lQf5tnOutpSJDzLpU4NkrY-/w400-h300/IMG_2567.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8WCwbCGExC4Rxf_gDmIU4uKgzqBuIlVIUAUiJfHH8QWxxBy3TLrXMjBPrkySGbsbTYUWp5CKBepuZznfUIsN17ZJ-65AAgA0V3_vohxij1DLBfHn-AWEjtAvyz-jznR2OnfN0Vc-H2aXzYKTBJjYw9GvW8C4ts3pYw-5dGGOOV3oXXGmkFH5IZCXVJyB/s2494/IMG_2570.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2494" data-original-width="2033" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8WCwbCGExC4Rxf_gDmIU4uKgzqBuIlVIUAUiJfHH8QWxxBy3TLrXMjBPrkySGbsbTYUWp5CKBepuZznfUIsN17ZJ-65AAgA0V3_vohxij1DLBfHn-AWEjtAvyz-jznR2OnfN0Vc-H2aXzYKTBJjYw9GvW8C4ts3pYw-5dGGOOV3oXXGmkFH5IZCXVJyB/w326-h400/IMG_2570.jpeg" width="326" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfEzmYZOpK-Ezmhj7Zcl6PnGJe7dyL315iPq-FEqbKEEytJDmzW46PHx-Wj3iGc5Xp6uVTOt4e1PHLKmb0INyQOxu3_mxgnHOBg6SqIEwqHDsUDp7pH-hJdeOK-w1IOZ0Gvv87EFhuB4Ux-mIc_butpCQjQvRvu1zVE3ha8XGR3Lr7sy_0QhgZAXmsDyIJ/s3264/IMG_2571.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfEzmYZOpK-Ezmhj7Zcl6PnGJe7dyL315iPq-FEqbKEEytJDmzW46PHx-Wj3iGc5Xp6uVTOt4e1PHLKmb0INyQOxu3_mxgnHOBg6SqIEwqHDsUDp7pH-hJdeOK-w1IOZ0Gvv87EFhuB4Ux-mIc_butpCQjQvRvu1zVE3ha8XGR3Lr7sy_0QhgZAXmsDyIJ/w400-h300/IMG_2571.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All in all, an excellent haul! And I wasn’t expecting any of it today! But it did mean I could post about it, as I didn’t have time for my planned post by the time I made my way back home! Hurrah! That will probably be appearing tomorrow now instead…in the meantime, you know what I’m going to say….so just do it, and then I won’t have to! Go on…do it now! Click the badge below….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEnbtrOSmLt72FMsGgnZb0RJhUdk_1ydck4kY24bEKpMywemgGgrDYrRa9p2_LgOWPuzTRbga9lO_NswPpN_piMxQoIOa2AP7S3ymBj_xaVkCyltCOADOvOOoY1ubSgyvnLY9AIsuUUP30ST29cJmaqVmEHaS4ZSyPqq1W4f2ylcKlCEWgrHgptY9f_SPB/s1600/IMG_2324.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-51009447960626511692023-10-27T16:41:00.003+01:002023-10-27T18:40:57.385+01:00Solar Powered Spookiness!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTet5L3jJ2Me0cLEkKG5Mls0SpgIHuOczUBLyGWasYoOTrKo4-JSpXPhyphenhyphenCYrMn8UQPiXJ9ld5mKFj0imwy8t0lqhXi0i0cjEG9BoCZyk6kQ0hx-bUBmxBxfIvkLWuE1tI4yz1EKpaiB4OLUMPAxiaCa5gw9WqNMtwuzqG32k5VbYZHnmTAZ4cYQbWG2h4I/s3074/IMG_2534.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="3074" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTet5L3jJ2Me0cLEkKG5Mls0SpgIHuOczUBLyGWasYoOTrKo4-JSpXPhyphenhyphenCYrMn8UQPiXJ9ld5mKFj0imwy8t0lqhXi0i0cjEG9BoCZyk6kQ0hx-bUBmxBxfIvkLWuE1tI4yz1EKpaiB4OLUMPAxiaCa5gw9WqNMtwuzqG32k5VbYZHnmTAZ4cYQbWG2h4I/w400-h164/IMG_2534.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Woke up today with a splitter of a headache….hours later, and it still hasn’t shifted, so I’m posting this in case the tablets I’ve just taken don’t work and I’m not able to put up a post later!</p><p style="text-align: center;">You should still enjoy it though, as I’m showing off my solar-powered shaker collection in motion! I’ve shown these before on my blog, but you’ve never seen them moving…</p><p style="text-align: center;">So here you go!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwUwtma2JCCOAbGgC7inr5wWIPnE9OTTBlGCqnZxuxbkMDyV4tPorGXh2liUUkJFNQrbY7mZNBJ2Mh2Tqv6UQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwJeE_4-2tcpmi-9yVN9calEa4hholS0KCrCschroRFpd4DlLIuq6FGftNeTd445X7ll_0Qh_OPmGDkSZY1Dg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw_eGhqqgvLsMenOeH96xX6uvf4WMRDL6kg8QTwVISrFHuZmL7YKi_EhVeROOaIL-DdiMr13sKS_BiHhijqmA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Aren’t those fun! Unfortunately we haven’t been getting to many bright days lately, so they’ve been pretty quiet this last week or so! But when the some comes out, off they start, rattling away!</p><p style="text-align: center;">As a bonus, here’s some pics of pumpkins I found outside a church just round the corner from me in North Berwick….</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrviArQPn29BewZJE_iO_y0FjZxKBgv6-B3M51tUEbsUb-niU_L4e-B4ea62iL9ZIoSL3m3fuQ5db_F-wYKqPsVBR15F0Ct9goAKLZunJGbwj5yel0DOpXaecqklYPBMc6_UuqYmK7U6_0KDlZErcYN69zZzTVRb7FitjAVSdY8K4VSojOToPgvqS839G0/s3264/IMG_2484.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1907" data-original-width="3264" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrviArQPn29BewZJE_iO_y0FjZxKBgv6-B3M51tUEbsUb-niU_L4e-B4ea62iL9ZIoSL3m3fuQ5db_F-wYKqPsVBR15F0Ct9goAKLZunJGbwj5yel0DOpXaecqklYPBMc6_UuqYmK7U6_0KDlZErcYN69zZzTVRb7FitjAVSdY8K4VSojOToPgvqS839G0/w400-h234/IMG_2484.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisySBcbcYDXzCjPm3ajJcN-ywB484DLv8sIhL-6s389Ha4ok3sAQo31Y6Ysi2k-nrxrsMaHFLwTqAZ_zS7MA3qil_OkdnMZNLSUaiwPIvvTAjS0nWav9DNH_XveHNHD1fWEzRcCwSY-0pqreGQZmPAdmYN_0MceQYw4ag-EG9VXZLaAumquLbmNumVBz2w/s1806/deep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1806" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisySBcbcYDXzCjPm3ajJcN-ywB484DLv8sIhL-6s389Ha4ok3sAQo31Y6Ysi2k-nrxrsMaHFLwTqAZ_zS7MA3qil_OkdnMZNLSUaiwPIvvTAjS0nWav9DNH_XveHNHD1fWEzRcCwSY-0pqreGQZmPAdmYN_0MceQYw4ag-EG9VXZLaAumquLbmNumVBz2w/w400-h269/deep.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <i>Ajax / Farrell's </i><b>Voodoo Issue 17, </b>dated Sept/Oct 1954, is where today's tale comes from, and it's a terrifying tale of past crimes being passed onto the next generation....</p><p style="text-align: center;">This was uploaded to the Digital Comic Museum by <i>Yoc, </i>so we can thank them for this one!</p><p style="text-align: center;">As always, click the pics to make them bigger!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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That seems a bit unfair! I mean, he seemed a bit of a numpty too, but I've always had a problem with curses or vengeance being passed down through the generations. Don't put the sins of the parents, grandparents, etc. on to their descendants! They didn't do anything....and what exactly did the woman do? Is she just guilty by association? Vengeful zombies can be so unfair sometimes....</p><p style="text-align: center;">Also, what's up with that last frame? It almost looks like AI generated art....Weird!</p><p style="text-align: center;">----------</p><p style="text-align: center;">A few days left to get over to the Countdown hub and check out what all the other Cryptkeepers are up to, like <i>Jen </i>at <b><a href="https://euclidboo.com/" target="_blank">Euclid Boo</a> </b>for instance! Click the badge below to find a list of all the participants...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSpLGIvhkV31Yge78ACaOErfhCemjnMtGdKWRAB6BQ9i0P9LX4hY6ohPxxAOSUXH3p8qM8Ywfh5yKGXQJNlnQRbgyvsjtmCEI5LD2tzZxk0OVoHbHVAiQNl7e3JKBt5M0pwWAB7v9N5ZB9z36gaUUsciFTbUUSL4Y5pJTkwiwRP-0-zOkGG9AXjY_z4f5/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-03.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-69678458860006341742023-10-25T18:45:00.000+01:002023-10-25T18:45:04.623+01:00Spook Sightings of Yester Year - No.25 - The Caledonian Mills Fire Spook (Part 2) - Reader's Resolvements!<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBHYOpYAX95LuueAHG7D8mIuYOnFw69AJXAwSScW13qGtkKZZGEs_MzYa_WJ1hOPCQTHtSQWkF1Xa0FcbKrAj-j5pNHznD1V2MFjCYv-5TVTHmh-wTxHHvrq2ZzVqF-64RRzwehifrZLkmdVJnBY84e-QGEQ3v6EyTV5TMOGNv0a5SfeFvGytI7IjBWtJ/s274/mary%20ellen%20and%20cat.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="274" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBHYOpYAX95LuueAHG7D8mIuYOnFw69AJXAwSScW13qGtkKZZGEs_MzYa_WJ1hOPCQTHtSQWkF1Xa0FcbKrAj-j5pNHznD1V2MFjCYv-5TVTHmh-wTxHHvrq2ZzVqF-64RRzwehifrZLkmdVJnBY84e-QGEQ3v6EyTV5TMOGNv0a5SfeFvGytI7IjBWtJ/w320-h271/mary%20ellen%20and%20cat.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mary Ellen and her cat, from the Washington Times, 2nd April 1922</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Playing on the great interest of readers around the account of the Fire Spook of the McDonald (or MacDonald, they can never seem to make up their mind on the correct spelling) Farm, the Herald and Evening Mail offered a $30 dollar reward for any theories that would help solve the case of the mysterious fires. It was actually to be divided up between the three best answers to the problem, with the best solution getting $15, second best $10 and third best $5....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYwkPZ-qHRd2c2HNej6Xp-XfgHP1D-naY7G5Tr3y_xztDMgHlEKcpjKIZczMsliCE_XzF7yHcbWEtcTLsuC11OiGt_Yxy1z4UsRdGzKbo6HWstvlOpe43WF27WdmRbj_zgouUyu4cvpCyhXYLZvyYFvHCjYMAqzEu3LYrQ2c69s3gn5NP79P2ukErYO0p/s1280/let.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYwkPZ-qHRd2c2HNej6Xp-XfgHP1D-naY7G5Tr3y_xztDMgHlEKcpjKIZczMsliCE_XzF7yHcbWEtcTLsuC11OiGt_Yxy1z4UsRdGzKbo6HWstvlOpe43WF27WdmRbj_zgouUyu4cvpCyhXYLZvyYFvHCjYMAqzEu3LYrQ2c69s3gn5NP79P2ukErYO0p/w350-h400/let.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This proved to make the articles even more popular, and it seems the paper had a lot of readers writing in with all sorts of reasons for the haunting...and it is these responses we'll be taking a look at in this part of my coverage of the story. So let's get right into it....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">~ * * * ~</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>All of these letters come from The Evening Mail, dated the 27th and 30th January, 1922.....</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>SAYS FAIRIES BRAID TALE OF HORSES</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I think it is a ghost, or perhaps there is money buried under the house and the fires are a warning. It is the fairies that braided the horses mane and tail, because they drove it at night, and the fairies are also repsonsible for the fires.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>LENA BURKEY,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>21 Grafton Street.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>AFRAID WITCHCRAFT IS BEING REVIVED</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">It is nothing more or less than witchcraft. The animals in the barn prove this to be the case. I thought this was done away with, but I see that it is reviving.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>MRS. GEORGE BRUNT,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Fairview.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>BLAMES FIRES ON BLACK ART BOOK</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">We have often heard of a Black Art Book, and I really do believe that someone connected with the house has the book that causes all this mischief.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>EDWARD BARNARD,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Mahone Bay.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayf0kJenbdw94m3yM2VsmVJaL-Up9ZM-o-814uv3VbAfmwcTtDWqCasSqfAY1pb2SElOFXNMY4519t5V8wpnkUp0Sppe3hziB7xf9K-JGaKtIRH-TByoeP73DQwnCI8iP6ITT_ZxAr7e2O-zLn0USnPkGjTJixUeJ7hkuolRnE8Dkxqx8rrtDgg6CAMzC/s1082/let1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="545" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayf0kJenbdw94m3yM2VsmVJaL-Up9ZM-o-814uv3VbAfmwcTtDWqCasSqfAY1pb2SElOFXNMY4519t5V8wpnkUp0Sppe3hziB7xf9K-JGaKtIRH-TByoeP73DQwnCI8iP6ITT_ZxAr7e2O-zLn0USnPkGjTJixUeJ7hkuolRnE8Dkxqx8rrtDgg6CAMzC/w201-h400/let1.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>SOMEONE PRACTICES MAGIC INFLUENCES</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">After closely following the description of the fires. at Caledonia Mills, I would suggest as an explanation for the cause, that someone closely connected with the family is practicing that magic influence "Black Art."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>THOMAS LANNON,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>203 Gottingen Street.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>SAYS IT IS NOT A LIVING ENEMY</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">If it is not a living enemy, it is an evil spirit throwing light on some crime that has been commited about the premises. There might have been some wicked person at one time living in the house, who has since passed away, with some bad crime connected with the death. God works in mysterious ways.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>WILLIAM BROWN,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>27 James Street.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZiugxPGY_unm-QIXJNi2tq_D0cJQVIJ9yNmtY6fQ-GPe0Yl4o3wKr7Ltb0GVH1zjmOu9wv9dwW3VmDqBitliK6BuAYCNZs_cGPbZKStNGRitR9If4CZxy4RC5vIdtD_Ja7Abw0EtppC5KPu1g-hwBK-w9375cWF56I-0bRybOWDi-ATSeVN7mZ2CgHgv/s1280/let2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="565" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZiugxPGY_unm-QIXJNi2tq_D0cJQVIJ9yNmtY6fQ-GPe0Yl4o3wKr7Ltb0GVH1zjmOu9wv9dwW3VmDqBitliK6BuAYCNZs_cGPbZKStNGRitR9If4CZxy4RC5vIdtD_Ja7Abw0EtppC5KPu1g-hwBK-w9375cWF56I-0bRybOWDi-ATSeVN7mZ2CgHgv/w176-h400/let2.jpg" width="176" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>SUGGEST INSPECTOR TO VISIT PREMISES</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">My theory is that it is no ordinary moonshine they are manufacturing down there, <b>but genuine jill water, </b>and a revenue officer would be the best extinguisher. I would advise equipping him with an asbestos cork, otherwise <b>he might get lit up too.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>W. L. MUSGRAVE,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>193 Brunswick St.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>REFUSE COTTON TO LINE CASKET</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I think that probably, many years past, neighbors of those people's past generations have died, and the casket was made in the country which is very often the case. Now these people have refused to give some cotton to line the inside of the casket and, in my estimation this is the cotton that was burning in many places in the house, to remind the occupants of the good they could have done towards helping those other people who more than likely were in great need at the time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>M. MacDONALD,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Halifax.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>COMBINATION OF CHEMICALS BLAMED</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I believe that the fires are caused by a combination of chemicals, having the merits of combustion after being exposed a certain length of time to the atmosphere, for instance, take the blind. This could have been painted with a solution of this nature which when applied would burn so rapidly that surfaces adjoining and not painted, would remain intact. Daubs of this solution painted upon walls, doors, furniture, etc. at stated intervals could cause such a phenomenon. Cotton, which was found on boards of the ceiling, which had been taken down and swept the day before, could not have got there without material aid.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>MRS. JOHN BYRON HARTLIN,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>11 Lawrenee Street.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioudN6sYMl8tJjpnfF5ekDPAHoOnGE69G7EIn49QUtVcrWRoa0TUjmbOTPqE97D0lwqhrNzYY_1YLCa2Se9MdCshd_Lg8S9vvQw_13lxqN6HqgX0XEzcYcWEc3UBPrsxaW2sKghxYhvN-I4MnnixH2sE9MRjs9l_gdwN6jcSoAIL0wJDAJwzUCFBuELi7R/s1646/let3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="1157" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioudN6sYMl8tJjpnfF5ekDPAHoOnGE69G7EIn49QUtVcrWRoa0TUjmbOTPqE97D0lwqhrNzYY_1YLCa2Se9MdCshd_Lg8S9vvQw_13lxqN6HqgX0XEzcYcWEc3UBPrsxaW2sKghxYhvN-I4MnnixH2sE9MRjs9l_gdwN6jcSoAIL0wJDAJwzUCFBuELi7R/w281-h400/let3.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>DISTURBED SPIRIT CAUSE OF FIRES</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">My idea of the mysterious fires at Caledonia Mills is that a disturbed spirit is causing them. This spirit when in mortal body may have during its life suffered indignities by being placed in such a dependent and humble position that it could not resent them openly but brood over them daily.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Being in such a position it is natural to assume that cheap cotton garments formed much of the earthly apparel which only made it more remorseful and vengeful.</p><p style="text-align: center;">These cheap cotton clothes now torn to rags are being put to their present and annoying use of igniting fires. Natural gas, radium, animal magnetism, chemicals, etc. are entirely put out of the question in this particular case, as these could not by any means set cattle loose and change horses in their stalls. Sometimes someone has been placed in a very subordinate position and is showing resentment.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>N. E. MORSE,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Halifax.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>FINDS HIS HORSES SHAKING WITH FEAR</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">My grandfather told me long, long ago about the same thing happening at his home. One morning, he found his horse, in the stable, shaking with fear. The animal's mane and tail had been plaited in much similar manner, to that which was described as happening at Antigonish.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Grandfather always claimed it was a witch, who was responsible. He told me how it could be stopped, but I have forgotten now. If you would like the information however I could write to my grandfather for it. There are some people who don't believe in witches, but such things exist. I didn't believe in them until my grandfather told me his story.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>JAMES McLEAN,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Inverness.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6L31awqfftE_yPnoA9z2KsO-J3cW2-Tfbrt9hN-9xvvdef4CwSph-s8y2speVF05IrFPgezE4e3ABX-b3DER9TwE1xI86_7_-U6vdr5TaLxuA4Ug8YcmfrVnGMkTvHATCJdeJgrX6_efCuhJlVi4eIW2XKDajoXaNqS2qwNemIOmG-2IgbIMSJJJ9kyS5/s2633/let4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2633" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6L31awqfftE_yPnoA9z2KsO-J3cW2-Tfbrt9hN-9xvvdef4CwSph-s8y2speVF05IrFPgezE4e3ABX-b3DER9TwE1xI86_7_-U6vdr5TaLxuA4Ug8YcmfrVnGMkTvHATCJdeJgrX6_efCuhJlVi4eIW2XKDajoXaNqS2qwNemIOmG-2IgbIMSJJJ9kyS5/w282-h640/let4.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>MR. SPOOK HAS FOOLED HIMSELF</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The "mystery" is a mystery no longer - that is to me. Mr. "spook" over stepped himself by materialization. If he had stuck to "spookdom" by applying his selective formula for producing slow combustion with less visible or tangible objects, such as absorbent cotton and rags, <b>the mystery may never have been solved. </b>It looks like an outside job with perhaps the knowledge - but <b>I'll let it go at that.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Certain chemicals compounded and applied to an object make that object non-combustible. Why not a compound causing slow combustion? My idea is this, far-fetched perhaps, but feasible, I think.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Example: </b>Take three chemicals of certain nature, uniting Nos. one and two results in instantaneous combustion. When No. three is added it reduces instantaneous to slow by atmospheric absorption.</p><p style="text-align: center;">These chemicals, in solution, confined in an airtight receptacle would remain harmless. On contact with the atmosphere, combustion begins, slowly increasing in volume as number three chemical evaporates. A person in possession of such formula and a wad of cotton, could dab this solution on walls, doors and other objects, causing fire to break out here, there and everwhere, at stated intervals, discarding the cotton behind furniture, pictures, or even sticking it between cracks in the ceiling boards. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. McDonald sure put one over on Mr. "Spook" when he took down those ceiling boards cleaning and replacing them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Solution : Look for a person with a knowledge of Chemistry.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>G. W. C., </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>P. O. Box 129</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>DALHOUSIE MOUNTAIN HAD SIMILAR CASE</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I am sending you an account of a happening similar to that in Alexander McDonalds, Caledonia Mills, in regard to the strange behaviour of cattle. It took place on a farm near the top of Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou county, 35 years ago.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The first evidence of strange happenings in this quiet place was one evening, when the cows began to bellow, as if in mortal terror. The people rushed to the barn, but on arriving found everything in quietness. <b>The cattle were wet and terrified.</b> This happened several times, and always when the people reached the barn, the cattle would quiet down.</p><p style="text-align: center;">After several days of these happenings they heard the same disturbance as before, but on this occasion, and following ones, they found the barn door open, and some of the cattle outside, and the rest inside on the barn floor. To reach the barn floor from the cow stanchions, it was necessary to pass through a small door, hardly large enough to admit a man, and impossible to allow an ordinary cow to pass. The people became alarmed and as the old superstitions were prevalent at this time, the people believed that the cattle<b> were under a spell, bewitched by someone.</b> Some of the more skeptical people determined to go and see what had taken place.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They took with them iron chains and hay wire, and after securely fastening the cattle with chains, and closing the stanchions, they took the hay wire, and twisted it in such a manner that neither the chains nor the stanchions could be opened without pliers in less than an hour.</p><p style="text-align: center;">After fastening all the cattle, the men went out of the barn <b>and nailed up the doors securely. </b>Inside of five minutes, the door opened and the cattle came out as before wet and terrified.</p><p style="text-align: center;">On examination, it was found that the hay wire was neither cut or broken, but unloosened as were also the iron chains. </p><p style="text-align: center;">The men were completely mystified - but no longer skeptical. Several men who were present are still living, and the story may be corroborated by them. According to tradition, this is the third happening of this kind in Pictou county.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>C. MARGARET MacKAY,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>R. R. No. 1, Scotsburn Station, </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Pictou.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA82awN3TpO4pSWCKnMCNdr_qsl_yGaPAGov9uOh9REqnnO42-FrhTd0kdYrIESBLqg2Ei3KwZ8CqARMvdTLhiSS1k9LVlXSVCqLx0g2025U72uBSG6XhYfmyFTFsNjxJM_v-3HsaZ2KtvwOvEhtlmXsAbCxMjUtKmkr2nCuLHKNxOF_BwQNvFeMHuOt77/s2387/let5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2387" data-original-width="580" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA82awN3TpO4pSWCKnMCNdr_qsl_yGaPAGov9uOh9REqnnO42-FrhTd0kdYrIESBLqg2Ei3KwZ8CqARMvdTLhiSS1k9LVlXSVCqLx0g2025U72uBSG6XhYfmyFTFsNjxJM_v-3HsaZ2KtvwOvEhtlmXsAbCxMjUtKmkr2nCuLHKNxOF_BwQNvFeMHuOt77/w157-h640/let5.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>THINKS THERE IS OIL UNDER HOUSE</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The cause of the fires in Antigonish is that there is an oil well under the house and some person or persons know about it and do not want any of the McDonalds to know. Therefore they want to drive the whole family away out and take possession of the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>D. McPHERSON, </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>29 Prince Street, Halifax.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>IS FORERUNNER OF POPE'S DEATH</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">In reference to the mysterious fires, that occurred in the home of Alexander McDonald, the only conclusion that I have come to is that it was a forerunner of Pope Benedict's death.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A. J. MacINTOSH,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Thorburn.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguWM9_kNEj8I8prQK7iOTwgFY6wzs2AJi0yK2iS5I5kNQo-lBOqUYOW_i-YRXDGrWtzgCIEN82w1p7FrVNJmcd22DSbLrg8Nw-QW5ujK4rP-Ih_AK-ycSlNBbBDR5QKQIqSsWGW0wKAzwicoVPl991cXzMscG_fZyiMSa1C-46XPYVvCA2-n_1f6_Y48oo/s1313/let6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="567" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguWM9_kNEj8I8prQK7iOTwgFY6wzs2AJi0yK2iS5I5kNQo-lBOqUYOW_i-YRXDGrWtzgCIEN82w1p7FrVNJmcd22DSbLrg8Nw-QW5ujK4rP-Ih_AK-ycSlNBbBDR5QKQIqSsWGW0wKAzwicoVPl991cXzMscG_fZyiMSa1C-46XPYVvCA2-n_1f6_Y48oo/w173-h400/let6.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>THINKS SATAN MAKES HIS RESIDENCE THERE</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">When the people left the old house, no more fires took place in the old or new house. If this is so, whoever haunts the house must be bothering the cattle, or perhaps the devil is making his home there, or some demons are doing mischief, or the ghost or spirit hates the McDonalds.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>HERBERT COOK,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Box 321, Trenton.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>OCCULT INFLUENCE MAY BE THE CAUSE</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Such phenomena as those reported from Antigonish have occurred from subtle occult influence. In the case of the Amerherst mystery the cure was effected by two worm powders administered by a Springhill doctor. The presence of animal life had disturbed the electric current, and probably for some reason, this has happened in the case of one of the occupants of the McDonald house and the exercise of such power would be altogether involuntary - as according to the law of Psychic phenomena, the power can usually be produced at will.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>J. E. WARNER,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Parrsboro.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLUIFg-rKYIZO2Oin1wmiMHJSI8-d2IVJ_qte43vGxH1wQFoLZ7U4WkUPDXmNz76SbrpAaHOOkpXlBCB2PHU-p_JR9DUpbmZ0ENX0cFP4ET-FLrMYhXZZUkhykCopcbPTd0Eqn96MoA1uqLRh6MDhbMeEduB0KQxYL9Ru_IMa07ncp5SJWuPLSdNxd_9x/s774/let7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="560" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLUIFg-rKYIZO2Oin1wmiMHJSI8-d2IVJ_qte43vGxH1wQFoLZ7U4WkUPDXmNz76SbrpAaHOOkpXlBCB2PHU-p_JR9DUpbmZ0ENX0cFP4ET-FLrMYhXZZUkhykCopcbPTd0Eqn96MoA1uqLRh6MDhbMeEduB0KQxYL9Ru_IMa07ncp5SJWuPLSdNxd_9x/w290-h400/let7.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>WOULD STARVE WITCH OUT OF THE HOUSE</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I think it is the work of a witch in the house of Mr. McDonald. I would advise them to draw a horse on the barn door and fill it full of horse shoe nails and for a bow, shingle nails and when the first person comes to the barn or house, don't let them in or give them anything to eat or drink, not even a drink of water, not even your brother or father or neighbor. Try this.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>GEORGE SMITH,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Armdale P. O., Spryfield.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>WORK OF SOME UNKNOWN ENEMY</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">My opinion of the mysterious fires, is that they have been set by some unknown enemy, who, in some mysterious way has distributed those pieces of cloth through the house, and it may be the instigator has a pal in the house as it looks very suspicious where no one know where the cotton came from, nor when it was placed at different intervals throughout the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;">As these acts were carried on in the barn for the first two weeks convinces me that it must have been the work of an enemy, and when they found this did not work, they tried something more alarming, and have succeeded in driving the occupants from their home. In time you will find that it is a living spirit possesssed of devils.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>PERCY R. SANFORD,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Hanstsport.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>BELIEVES PLACE TO BE HAUNTED</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I read about the mysterious fires, and I think the place is haunted. Why doesn't Mr. McDonald ask the ghost why it is trying to burn down his home? I am sure the ghost will answer him. Perhaps there is someone who is jealous of his property and is wishing this on him so as to drive him away from his home. This could happen.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My grandmother couldn't keep a cow. This happened some years ago. Every cow she had would die or there would be some accident to happen to it. She took the heart from one of the cows, stuck pins in it, and boiled it till the perosn who had wished this misfortune on the cows came to her. I am sure if Mr. McDonald did something like this he would find out how and why they tried to burn his house.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A. B. COIT,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Halifax</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrQHshT-e03UFec0Fo1QSckPSMN7BROSm_Cp2It34PRfReX7nOAWFM_4zT_r782OWgIRIqmJH_tuNaySkL9Y0RJ6-xrzU9qvDkKPyqyCdR_z0ZDf3bLD80GhcTfmSSYIaStD93boHq8vxQR8Jz4BsIaFUHgPhNdyzupckjFcBjydJP7FCUug2EIj_PMpN/s648/let8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrQHshT-e03UFec0Fo1QSckPSMN7BROSm_Cp2It34PRfReX7nOAWFM_4zT_r782OWgIRIqmJH_tuNaySkL9Y0RJ6-xrzU9qvDkKPyqyCdR_z0ZDf3bLD80GhcTfmSSYIaStD93boHq8vxQR8Jz4BsIaFUHgPhNdyzupckjFcBjydJP7FCUug2EIj_PMpN/w349-h400/let8.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>SOMEONE STUDIED FROM BAD BOOKS</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Someone who must have studied bad books has probably a grudge against Mr. McDonald and is doing this kind of work to chase the family from their home. If you see such things as strange cotton lying around again, put them in the stove and burn them. Also nail a horseshoe above the door where the people pass in and out, and one above the stable door, and if it is witchery going on, that will stop it, and if anyone is going in and out of the house, who you think is suspicious, stick a sowing awl in the bottom of a chair on which they are going to sit, and if it is that person, they will not be able to arise from the chair again until you pull the awl out.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>MISS A. ZWICKER,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Milton.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>THE INFLUENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">My opinion is that the fires starting under such strange and abnormal circumstances have been caused by no other means than the influence of evil spirits. We know that the devil is <b>manifesting his power in different forms such as spiritualism</b>, ouija board, etc., but why should they choose to take possession of the home of a respected family we do not know. As the fires could not be started by natural means, we cannot but think, that it is the work of <b>evil spirits under the control of Satan.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>MRS. C. V. LLARROD,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Fairview.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>RICH MINERALS ON THE PROPERTY</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I think that the land around the house contains some sort of mineral and that some persons unknown wish to secure it. While Mr. McDonald was away from the barn the "spook" entered and unfastened the cattle. This probably explains the cattle being changed and as to the horses perspiring with fright, the spook would be dressed in white, and this would <b>scare any horse in the dark.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, when the occupants of the house were away, the spook entered the house and distrubuted some kind of chemical on the various articless that caught fire. When the temperature was at a certain height, probably very cool, for when the fires took place, the fires in the stove were out, or when the article came in contact with any force, the chemical ignited, and being only in small quantities the flame would be very small. As to the fires in the ceiling, mice may have ignited the chemical.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>CORNELIUS SIMMONS,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>908 Barrington St.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>(This next letter seems to have been printed as sent - Deadpan Flook)</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>HERE'S THE SOLUTION "VAMPIRE MYSTERY"</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">After closely I follow the description of the fires, at Caledonia Mills, I would suggest as an explanation for the cause as I witness too many mystery fires at eastern world, my theory is as follows:</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sometime ago, surtny must been commited some crime of an honest person in a very wicked and bad death, in remorseful and revengeful manner, and burned in Mr. and Mrs. McDonald's home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So this innocent spirit after certain times turns to vampire, and appears at the moaning place was murdered, as wishing to occupied this premises, as this vampire appears in different forms, as animals, fires, wind or person, "ect."</p><p style="text-align: center;">If present owner of the premises do not agree with the vampire, sometime is punished by the vampire very mysteriously, as whom lives on the premises at present, have to leave and vacate this premises for the vampire.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>V. EVANS,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>814 Barrington St.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDg2QMwPBQGzwaZ-aQHQoNXEUp49qC5Si6b_BQ0nMXnOxeF_MiS7m6bS4SImjFhebT6tYE9lk_ZxAWiNjjxiYxk_94TUWTSRSu72SzBApb7r2nNNhe_QEB6B3qL4Byx0ht__IDVDlHbG6bK5JNhqSPQAh_2gVfLPvD92hxbXNAn2wwAsx7qgb06A2t7qj-/s1122/let9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="562" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDg2QMwPBQGzwaZ-aQHQoNXEUp49qC5Si6b_BQ0nMXnOxeF_MiS7m6bS4SImjFhebT6tYE9lk_ZxAWiNjjxiYxk_94TUWTSRSu72SzBApb7r2nNNhe_QEB6B3qL4Byx0ht__IDVDlHbG6bK5JNhqSPQAh_2gVfLPvD92hxbXNAn2wwAsx7qgb06A2t7qj-/w200-h400/let9.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>"SPOOKS" COULD NOT BRAID HORSES' TAILS</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The fires which recently occurred at Caledonia Mills are the result of the human mind and were made practicable by the human hand, not "spooks."</p><p style="text-align: center;">That is my hypothesis, founded upon reports published in the Halifax Herald.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Someone, having access to the house, has placed pieces of cotton in the numerous places where the fires suddenly appeared, after first saturating the cotton in a chemical solution which is at present unknown. This chemical, under favourable conditions, is automatically ignited and bursts into flame, being similar to spontaneous combustion.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The person perpetrating this crime (for crime it is) has done so with an ulterior motive in view - that of driving the McDonalds from their home and gaining possession of their house or farm.</p><p style="text-align: center;">__________________________</p><p style="text-align: center;">That "spooks" are the cause of these fires sounds unreasonable and is on second thought, unreasonable. Suppose that the "spirits" had become playful and decided to amuse themselves at the expense of Mr. McDonald: Do they possess the power to braid a horse's tail, draw nails from his stanchion, change his stall, and disappear carrying with them the nails?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Suppose also, there were vast mineral deposits in the cellar of the house or the surrounding land that would cause a fire, would that, too, cause trouble in the stables? Both are improbable.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A competent detective delving into the mystery and investigating would, I think, pay particular attention to the "little cotton rags" from which undoubtedly the fires originated.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>RUSSELL M. RAY,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Margaretsville.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>NOT STRANGE IN LIGHT OF THE HOLY WRIT</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The "spook" fires in Antigonish County are opportune, in that they awaken, in the minds of the public a desire to know the truth concerning this strange phenomenon. Assuming that these fires are not the work of human instruments, which premise seems admissable, we must enter the realms of the supernatural to find a solution. To those of us who are old-fashioned enough to believe the Bible, the supernatural falls obviously into two classes, that of Good and Evil. But little reasoning is required to safely conclude that the Powers of Good would not be manifested to the destruction of a poor man's home, or the frightening of a feeble old woman. If then the powers of Evil are responsible for the fires in the McDonald home, why was this house selected, and what object has the evil intelligence in such a demonstration?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Humanly speaking these questions cannot be answered, nor can the question of the selection of the McDonald's home be explained at all, for they are people of unquestionable integrity.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The purpose of the unnatural scenes at this house are not strange in the light of certain statements found in Holy Writ.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Spiritualism, known as witchcraft in the olden days, today sponsored by leading scientists and heralded as a panacea for the world's ills, claims to be in touch with the outer world, and doubtless is ; rappings, table turnings, and the playing of musical instruments without hands, and other strange happenings of the seance chamber cannot be explained any more than the Antigonish fires, but they happen and will continue to increase until the world is ready for the master deception mentioned in these texts - 2 Cor. 11:14; Rev.-13:13, 14 ; Thess,- 2:8, 9.</p><p style="text-align: center;">These texts show that greater evidence of Satanic power will be manifest as the world enters the closing scenes of her history, and to the wise, these unexplained phenomena are but a "sign of the times."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>PEARL MUNROE,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Mahone.</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">~~~~* * *~~~~</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">So there you have it...that was the theories of 100 odd years ago, and I find myself leaning towards the 'human culprit angle' myself, what with all the cotton pieces lying around and everything..so that should be it, right? Easy mystery, easily solved....now we just need to find a culprit!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Well...no. Not quite. Because only a few days later, the lead journalist of these articles and a local policeman visited the scene of the mysterious fires, and were not so quick to blame a human hand once they had seen the evidence. So much so in fact, that they each put up a $100 reward to anybody who could prove within the next year, that it was NOT supernatural means that started the fires...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuRa0VvoifCNmLdMc2luDNf8eQl2CUkKZcH-vffdQQapmHM7i8NP75z_AwZxSiOmBu4GV-tb5p0uedcuFzOeSRVGmzKDYHLdZtZ8WeOGrYW12jlpMjQOKbuq52qC2qggw1MX8Fi7cHuFp7kyzZrJ6zBLbKdB9JF7rGNCoLTQ8fwsIFFnLWIq-KMr6YfFl/s1117/let%2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1117" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDuRa0VvoifCNmLdMc2luDNf8eQl2CUkKZcH-vffdQQapmHM7i8NP75z_AwZxSiOmBu4GV-tb5p0uedcuFzOeSRVGmzKDYHLdZtZ8WeOGrYW12jlpMjQOKbuq52qC2qggw1MX8Fi7cHuFp7kyzZrJ6zBLbKdB9JF7rGNCoLTQ8fwsIFFnLWIq-KMr6YfFl/s320/let%2010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...but more on that, and some other surprising elements of the case when we come back with part 3 later in the week! In the meantime, what are your ideas on the case? Was it spooks? Did someone outside the house have their eyes on the property? Was it strange electrical magnetism, or did one of the McDonalds have a secret tendency towards arson?? Let me know your thoughts below....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope you're enjoying this look at the talk of Antigonish in 1922! As I say, I'll be back with the next part later in the week. In the meantime, you know what to do...click that badge below and head on over to the Countdown hub for more seasonal spookery from all the participating Cryptkeepers!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5Apl_M4rtzXS7M44B1PShFDzf9isxNaCCaF_NAi4pLHvqQ1G8dFn0jk5cITJIanaRQXev6_98Ihbb6kdF_EXipcjCWZdYLtdgXswz_ULK9M3YL9O_0VMbvP2T6sVIy3iAqe0mAkGb_yDvZ-XDozUqhTttBAKcj18mrH6la2B9LzDWwreY6YArrknGCDI/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-01.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-47080991173042587892023-10-24T19:31:00.000+01:002023-10-24T19:31:06.825+01:00An Earful of Eerie-ness! - Reposts for your listening pleasure! (Also, Vincent Price is back again...)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqjKCdHm0k2jTdEmaWxil8bp39X_3ei_kidy8Zu6NWiA11eC6jYIxrM_GhyphenhyphenjTLUKy8y8z5CVn2cr2mrm3VkRkxnOpjMCefua0wbE1reUepqlx2oXo5D0WnqY2bZwcd5CkcvyLw3v0hKmEF8jD6gtXnyDXFf8ZSZzVhNl2B5e_u60FwN2fG32qw9b4s0uAu/s200/200w.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqjKCdHm0k2jTdEmaWxil8bp39X_3ei_kidy8Zu6NWiA11eC6jYIxrM_GhyphenhyphenjTLUKy8y8z5CVn2cr2mrm3VkRkxnOpjMCefua0wbE1reUepqlx2oXo5D0WnqY2bZwcd5CkcvyLw3v0hKmEF8jD6gtXnyDXFf8ZSZzVhNl2B5e_u60FwN2fG32qw9b4s0uAu/w400-h300/200w.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Over the years I've posted quite a few radio shows and snippets from records of a spooky variety, which for one reason or another have disappeared! Here then are a few of the posted tracks that no longer work, which I'm putting here instead of updating dead links, to make it easier for anyone who hasn't heard them before to hear......</p><p style="text-align: center;">First up, a couple of old-timey radio shows!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9mE4tPhpvJk" width="320" youtube-src-id="9mE4tPhpvJk"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Valse Triste (Lights Out 1942)</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Two city women vacationing in the country lose their canoe and seek help within the dark woods. Coming upon a cabin, the women are then terrorized by a mad fiddler obsessed with chance who is intent on making one of them his bride and murdering the other.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">(The audio on this next one is pretty bad, so maybe start with the video turned down and then increase it slowly until you get to the preferred listening volume!)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GKE-mKwtVaA" width="320" youtube-src-id="GKE-mKwtVaA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u>Behind The Locked Door (The Mysterious Traveler 1951)</u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An archaeological expedition to the Vermillion Cliffs of Arizona seeks to uncover ancient Aztec artifacts... but, instead, finds a cave with a bizarre and deadly legacy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And now, our old pal <b>Vincent Price</b> continues to haunt the blog with his presence.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OXe5BiXICok" width="320" youtube-src-id="OXe5BiXICok"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u>Dreamland - Vincent Price - A Hornbook For Witches</u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2WrVC2L3jI" width="320" youtube-src-id="S2WrVC2L3jI"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u>How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You - Vincent Price - A Hornbook For Witches</u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5QZiPS--YJ4" width="320" youtube-src-id="5QZiPS--YJ4"></iframe></div><br /><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u>Vincent Price's Hall of Horrors - The Fox Sisters (1979)</u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Only a week left until Halloween is upon us! But there are still lots of great things for you to see in the Countdown To Halloween! Click on the badge below and you'll be whisked off to the Countdown Hub, where you can find a list of all this year's participants!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcnI95mFfBQskN5K1Z7OKf2g_GzOqVxruLPsrPIGwG5aexEpRHFxR9gYJYMkqrvNSUxHIVz7Do9uoL00GarlUku_XeWq1_h5wW1mfjcBe2n_-PbIXHt2iE-tlW5aeO0MwvLQlFfvnlpbpPi4aZrKrCGNQyhoQ9iAg3fL8lHzwJgVuB8zMdopoIoSxt5iLt/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-05.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-19979046353414838622023-10-23T23:53:00.005+01:002023-10-23T23:53:35.394+01:00Cool and Creepy Stuff I Own - Part 4 - Monsters in the Movies (John Landis)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYY2nyxOSvqoITujHwDNJqjeGwprmmjtMzvfyONbwsVsT8I1BaRUcvqy1LL5zxrkAXuuJLIO6xvD7NLQtCnhnYE43dFBEtFAy1Gr2lYrLwRXu1du4LIeXr76h7Bz3OjEHrmQwSOIZ84gYhhPNTCle412VUjNBnMid8ikqhnCDxxorBCBER1emw6wSvHm3/s1000/IMG_2530.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="834" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYY2nyxOSvqoITujHwDNJqjeGwprmmjtMzvfyONbwsVsT8I1BaRUcvqy1LL5zxrkAXuuJLIO6xvD7NLQtCnhnYE43dFBEtFAy1Gr2lYrLwRXu1du4LIeXr76h7Bz3OjEHrmQwSOIZ84gYhhPNTCle412VUjNBnMid8ikqhnCDxxorBCBER1emw6wSvHm3/w334-h400/IMG_2530.jpeg" width="334" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">I picked up this book for £10 a few years back, which was about a sixth of it’s recommended retail price…and was very happy with my purchase! It’s a great book, filled with page after page of creatures from 100 years of cinema! So I thought I’d share some of those pages with you and give you a sneak peek at what’s in store for you if you manage to find it at bargain price (seems to be anywhere from £12 to £99 for the hardback copy 2nd hand online)….</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglu5GK4_OFEx14dm6cv22n6yNP-CK1yQXeaKp6yLzxZhDpko1s5cCR1EcAeOllPcB3HgDBVgf6cV3R9sie2bnVv4hvv7cJwo9ry-F3KqYz_9mGHlMEnRGtCoEb5f7DaI4miKkg03-fQc2a3f24iLyhkaoRPg0J69VNOZDB7R3f8rRYIp-I_oKjVJ-nykgt/s3254/IMG_2412.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1978" data-original-width="3254" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglu5GK4_OFEx14dm6cv22n6yNP-CK1yQXeaKp6yLzxZhDpko1s5cCR1EcAeOllPcB3HgDBVgf6cV3R9sie2bnVv4hvv7cJwo9ry-F3KqYz_9mGHlMEnRGtCoEb5f7DaI4miKkg03-fQc2a3f24iLyhkaoRPg0J69VNOZDB7R3f8rRYIp-I_oKjVJ-nykgt/w400-h244/IMG_2412.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECZmoGUYyhm_JkCLYSEe6wr5hKDHyOtIFbdfv4zqWYkq-HwoI8yE0TEFAy3HMOqj3jsxO8Ts5b7Q6fVM1xmqdfoou_K7r3mlpMHrRpaQeQd4KG-NqALUykoaXhV7owDJPNKE0lKXM1yn944a3WZjMnjpPpU_dcTNssM448wLQBOfJZphrtT4OYByxu8UC/s3264/IMG_2419.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECZmoGUYyhm_JkCLYSEe6wr5hKDHyOtIFbdfv4zqWYkq-HwoI8yE0TEFAy3HMOqj3jsxO8Ts5b7Q6fVM1xmqdfoou_K7r3mlpMHrRpaQeQd4KG-NqALUykoaXhV7owDJPNKE0lKXM1yn944a3WZjMnjpPpU_dcTNssM448wLQBOfJZphrtT4OYByxu8UC/w400-h300/IMG_2419.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdoYeXHoLGnT19MfR8CljboP_YBv8JyAYdteH7uWbQl2H2s2l_aolRf9D4YubK-leRi1I_1Wj4rdXW9TQgrMtfo2HBWGahWe6uY0z0_oLvIUF-qxDVyr9wE8s51d5rBZ38MO17h2-LRGeEjW2cPLu72h8rohptiJTVpNzqgFyRQHbZT1t81AyQomofdlxp/s3264/IMG_2420.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdoYeXHoLGnT19MfR8CljboP_YBv8JyAYdteH7uWbQl2H2s2l_aolRf9D4YubK-leRi1I_1Wj4rdXW9TQgrMtfo2HBWGahWe6uY0z0_oLvIUF-qxDVyr9wE8s51d5rBZ38MO17h2-LRGeEjW2cPLu72h8rohptiJTVpNzqgFyRQHbZT1t81AyQomofdlxp/w300-h400/IMG_2420.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHjolbO7CaljmorYCe1FfFWjnlbEpmiyCH_pqKWhAEeA4N-1OaJ8IIEXcrTpJ1-aRGsx2pFgiHLUNH5noF5u3xpGLuCX0AEqhsr-U1ky3CZ4M1rKJQ4v8dJrfUOBnjRRsUIvwx5uLMqz0qsb3BnCEZxLisEnIRgZGeDdbf0QDE3yyYyVnmPWRV8ixJ_Zf/s3264/IMG_2421.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHjolbO7CaljmorYCe1FfFWjnlbEpmiyCH_pqKWhAEeA4N-1OaJ8IIEXcrTpJ1-aRGsx2pFgiHLUNH5noF5u3xpGLuCX0AEqhsr-U1ky3CZ4M1rKJQ4v8dJrfUOBnjRRsUIvwx5uLMqz0qsb3BnCEZxLisEnIRgZGeDdbf0QDE3yyYyVnmPWRV8ixJ_Zf/w400-h300/IMG_2421.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Landis is mostly famous, at least in my experience, for four things....The <b>Blues Brother</b> movie, <b>An American Werewolf In London</b>, <i>Michael Jackson's</i> <b>Thriller</b> video...and for his series of bad decisions and cavalier attitude to safety and protocol that likely contributed to the deaths of <b>Vic Morrow</b>, <b>Myca Dinh Le </b>(age 7) and <b>Renee Shin-Yi Chen</b> (age 6), who lost their lives in a helicopter accident during filming of Twilight Zone - The Movie. The whole situation around that incident is crazy and would require a lengthy post all on it's own, but Landis did not come out of it looking at all good. Steven Spielberg allegedly ended his friendship with Landis over it, and despite being cleared of any charges regarding the deaths, he was reprimanded for breaching Child Labour laws by hiring the child actors, which resulted in stricter safety measures and enforcement of child labor laws in California....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4I89ufbAKmN5zftaDa-xIeu3f4pIsqFjrc9GnKWheIpkmhBgNB-RWosaD_aWuzoGd1AUARBYe0zvrrYYQBMjEeAo6rTQpEglorzTveObuIN87h9B6uPmdnNDZkiMfbKQClCX548EaTrDmsTZt6LDig0R8PAAs4M7VCTO5BuwZlEHKam4-uuNrmYTDscN/s3264/IMG_2422.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4I89ufbAKmN5zftaDa-xIeu3f4pIsqFjrc9GnKWheIpkmhBgNB-RWosaD_aWuzoGd1AUARBYe0zvrrYYQBMjEeAo6rTQpEglorzTveObuIN87h9B6uPmdnNDZkiMfbKQClCX548EaTrDmsTZt6LDig0R8PAAs4M7VCTO5BuwZlEHKam4-uuNrmYTDscN/w400-h300/IMG_2422.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBn_3x80FXQU9wfeexKPycouxtPSrE47_Pibc5pMPHSIBg3a3Aw9A3jRJE1OlllXHsjx2aKA0Iy0_0fZKOwZf75cBn2NdU8H8ZOvXIOxRr3UWR6nQXN9wmh6tw6eeQksoJBwCKK2WOORzskDvOB7331_ibcQ2Y1TQV5jkGFwtOiMbbsRSWkkux4X3lPMtq/s3264/IMG_2423.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBn_3x80FXQU9wfeexKPycouxtPSrE47_Pibc5pMPHSIBg3a3Aw9A3jRJE1OlllXHsjx2aKA0Iy0_0fZKOwZf75cBn2NdU8H8ZOvXIOxRr3UWR6nQXN9wmh6tw6eeQksoJBwCKK2WOORzskDvOB7331_ibcQ2Y1TQV5jkGFwtOiMbbsRSWkkux4X3lPMtq/w400-h300/IMG_2423.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f2XP47IIP7heJhvxjTua-FszvK3EvnYd6R6CIE7mt_J8f6Ij5f9S2D5aopiv2GOYuVio9XyrtNTP6YANpHKWQdzJsP9jX5is_FQi3Z2I0XzmtaK12BVZDNDvqKGKQvui8MVHYHnIEr-0VuaFZFRLriIFCSwjK2FYo9o5QSU9zAGWr9lQptExJ2Ml_gzn/s3264/IMG_2424.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-f2XP47IIP7heJhvxjTua-FszvK3EvnYd6R6CIE7mt_J8f6Ij5f9S2D5aopiv2GOYuVio9XyrtNTP6YANpHKWQdzJsP9jX5is_FQi3Z2I0XzmtaK12BVZDNDvqKGKQvui8MVHYHnIEr-0VuaFZFRLriIFCSwjK2FYo9o5QSU9zAGWr9lQptExJ2Ml_gzn/w400-h300/IMG_2424.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He later went on to direct several comedies, including <b>The Three Amigos</b>, <b>Trading Places</b>,<b> Coming To America</b> and the not-so-great <i>Blues Brothers</i> sequel, and also produced a lot of stuff for TV including <b>Masters of Horror</b>. His latest directing venture is <b>Superhero Kindergarten</b>, an animated show created by <i>Stan Lee</i>, <i>Arnold Schwarzenegger</i> and <i>Andy Heyward</i>....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Regardless of anything else, or how you might feel about Landis after reading about his behaviour leading to the tragedy of <i>Twilight Zone</i>, he certainly does know his horror movies, and this book is a great read, and filled with wonderful photos of all your favourite movies...but also a good resource for finding ones you've maybe not gotten around to watching yet!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePD7Dih0JydHLMjILMulA0lirtLEGuUdY2FdDyZJpVaIuwY0HusuKBz5qgURldWvhotBnFOB9PJs8CmhN5oYInJjgS5DicVLTTZM0ssuFpDPoRzulwPczVDjKGXw3GjEVQmHoc36hPjtIkhpn3F3D4QeP630vkEkNfQAX87DMzID1wiOSnP_KIMUpfeOe/s3264/IMG_2425.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePD7Dih0JydHLMjILMulA0lirtLEGuUdY2FdDyZJpVaIuwY0HusuKBz5qgURldWvhotBnFOB9PJs8CmhN5oYInJjgS5DicVLTTZM0ssuFpDPoRzulwPczVDjKGXw3GjEVQmHoc36hPjtIkhpn3F3D4QeP630vkEkNfQAX87DMzID1wiOSnP_KIMUpfeOe/w400-h300/IMG_2425.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfmFTcMKzm-8B8D1VPjPO3lfT1QV2QuS87Ikk7EtXBvGATYmRp7OfMvOh_nbLmsV9cLE0QlP0WUksKYoflorWkaNbiz5Pv7MRD5hn7SVv4ZClkv3PEdmJPtYM_rU2de4TTG0q2W859RlANfGpXnXMlbYfjjR_8NM23b9iBIZZxzb41BE0aKg4Io1MmDzw/s3264/IMG_2426.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfmFTcMKzm-8B8D1VPjPO3lfT1QV2QuS87Ikk7EtXBvGATYmRp7OfMvOh_nbLmsV9cLE0QlP0WUksKYoflorWkaNbiz5Pv7MRD5hn7SVv4ZClkv3PEdmJPtYM_rU2de4TTG0q2W859RlANfGpXnXMlbYfjjR_8NM23b9iBIZZxzb41BE0aKg4Io1MmDzw/w400-h300/IMG_2426.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Grab a copy for your coffee table if these pictures have tickled your fancy...or, if like me, you don't actually own a coffee table, just buy lots of copies of this book. It's big enough for several to make a very sturdy coffee table themselves!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just over a week left to head over to the Countdown To Halloween hub for a list of all this year's participants! Go click the badge below and peruse the wonders of the Halloweenieverse!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJvSumPyau_TAKstYaxNb10BZJE_y67Bam3oG06sbkx1EhnGH-XYHG2G4cixCoToRGL95CN6qytheQ1uj0SSZS8lk5CeYywA3x9_MCkedg-R8Z_ljralJ5j8-RplQcXy7947Lt0Lz8U_IiFEhYDcErNRajEbZBYLRxxU0gQ9ESXHotZAM-6MXelfv-bVF/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-02.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-12076265423862167372023-10-22T19:26:00.002+01:002023-10-22T19:26:57.934+01:00Gruesome Games - Four More With Gore!<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yuyz_PrRxT1l8DOrVmYWx9OCHCj_ofO9HXypJtjLQeaRd9vvE-gRfFRLLQCFMih16eVtoWHoIPcCBziNOUz7j-eWs8yrgrU46beMLSSTJrY3q1Ysw5XRPJrVyzEFWU2it7BvfCjK0wAPsCFbuZV0O-XAwWVwwLabtdORkn71PrA-MwkvA_QDQNyevtWM/s783/namco23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yuyz_PrRxT1l8DOrVmYWx9OCHCj_ofO9HXypJtjLQeaRd9vvE-gRfFRLLQCFMih16eVtoWHoIPcCBziNOUz7j-eWs8yrgrU46beMLSSTJrY3q1Ysw5XRPJrVyzEFWU2it7BvfCjK0wAPsCFbuZV0O-XAwWVwwLabtdORkn71PrA-MwkvA_QDQNyevtWM/s320/namco23.png" width="261" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Time for another batch of Gruesome Games I reckon! It's been hard getting screenshots for these since all my tech decided to pack up right at the start of the month, so most of the screens are photos rather than screenshot downloads from emulators like I normally do, but they get the job done....</p><p style="text-align: center;"> I'll also take this opportunity to give a shout-out to the <b><a href="https://splatterhouse.kontek.net/index.html" target="_blank">West Mansion</a></b> site, where I found a few extra images to put up...Give their name a click to head over to a great site that's been active since 2001! Right, now that that's out of the way, let's crack on with looking at some games!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TAetWYtv1Fe5BSFVImJAKBKXQm1D_TiJmADAAdx45g_o1_sLmticJxa07c9_iwlT_TdBnh9AlX9a-04vgqiWgh5e0_Uss92Bcq1gFS1LVPMUIKtoJU0Wp3pjjNjzGp5_4KyRgS_3CaT8pz0JRw3fwYW-nLpRhVM5-w9RDZ9sXqjN6W-bQ4SepEuPG3k0/s279/sp3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TAetWYtv1Fe5BSFVImJAKBKXQm1D_TiJmADAAdx45g_o1_sLmticJxa07c9_iwlT_TdBnh9AlX9a-04vgqiWgh5e0_Uss92Bcq1gFS1LVPMUIKtoJU0Wp3pjjNjzGp5_4KyRgS_3CaT8pz0JRw3fwYW-nLpRhVM5-w9RDZ9sXqjN6W-bQ4SepEuPG3k0/w258-h400/sp3.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <b><u>Splatterhouse (Arcade, PC Engine/TG) :</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1dmmMFLr-m5Id65zd71IFdHfrB0m15BL1u3PEjwm_fCnKxG8K6_SGZj4SMHu6c_xv7xqxffAbYAHZF58K0mIoEZK6uMLvGG9cqiZaoOw8JKZUuPNme8Mt8eHPg_aH97sdmj11S7bGq7zr_Q6UO0lqQ-sERiBSehJEflFR5JEbGXzKP0as-QIxZhWNtTY/s243/sp2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="207" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1dmmMFLr-m5Id65zd71IFdHfrB0m15BL1u3PEjwm_fCnKxG8K6_SGZj4SMHu6c_xv7xqxffAbYAHZF58K0mIoEZK6uMLvGG9cqiZaoOw8JKZUuPNme8Mt8eHPg_aH97sdmj11S7bGq7zr_Q6UO0lqQ-sERiBSehJEflFR5JEbGXzKP0as-QIxZhWNtTY/w273-h320/sp2.jpg" width="273" /></a></b></div><b><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">I've already covered a few of the Splatterhouse games on this blog, but it occurred to me last week that I've never actually covered the first two games that started off the series...so let's remedy that situation now by taking a look at the original.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Student <b>Rick Taylor</b> and his girlfriend <b>Jennifer Willis</b> get caught in a cliché....sorry, I meant a storm....and to escape this storm, decide to take refuge in the spooky old mansion known as the "Splatterhouse," so called because of rumours of heinous experiments carried out there by missing parapsychologist, <b>Dr. West</b>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipixazMFQnDCMVrGlvHjSrrfDQ7I3nOsLOjpglxEz6d8tDIR44Gni85bp0oBIKXAaz27Zi5nqGjhrgvnpjDsd0Loi0Qvhkazy-y9D6OpA__Et8nE5mfifPqm96QkWxZdABtH8kYn53fLSVXksYuEQy3F_odDu2lzLyRRsOWhKZWhqwebVtXJlZ1yf2nCB-/s3264/IMG_2455.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipixazMFQnDCMVrGlvHjSrrfDQ7I3nOsLOjpglxEz6d8tDIR44Gni85bp0oBIKXAaz27Zi5nqGjhrgvnpjDsd0Loi0Qvhkazy-y9D6OpA__Et8nE5mfifPqm96QkWxZdABtH8kYn53fLSVXksYuEQy3F_odDu2lzLyRRsOWhKZWhqwebVtXJlZ1yf2nCB-/w400-h300/IMG_2455.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">As they enter the mansion, the door slams shut and leaves them in darkness, the echo of the door barely having a chance to end before Jennifer's screams fill Rick's ears! The next thing he knows, he's waking in a spooky dungeon, with something stuck to his face. Something that then informs him that it is an ancient "<b>Terror Mask</b>" that has resurrected Rick and for some nefarious reason wants to 'help' him rescue Jennifer by giving him superhuman strength and encouraging him to splatter as many monsters as possible against the walls and floors of the mansion...</p><p style="text-align: center;">What follows is a very straight-forward jaunt through level after level of right-scrolling environments, with Rick and his not-at-all-based-on-Jason-Voorhees's-mask face-friend using anything they find at hand to bash the baddies, jump over traps and try to reach Jennifer before she becomes Dr.West's latest victim.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8E46szVgHTJ5Gl2l3sZLAJr0DHRxjCiT7cE5FT0QKNV5zXLvhZvI5R2hajFQbaYu2szVup9xLnWIvAa7EfzlhLLMRxjr3DGQ8Rxm_5p0a3MBUg3IojvaGkNDe1PUu-YnmI03cKeA1AFORGzFKqBfWGHNmUSybDCXkV1rE1yFkwUcyUj_TQH_bbD5cQus/s2754/IMG_2456.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2272" data-original-width="2754" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8E46szVgHTJ5Gl2l3sZLAJr0DHRxjCiT7cE5FT0QKNV5zXLvhZvI5R2hajFQbaYu2szVup9xLnWIvAa7EfzlhLLMRxjr3DGQ8Rxm_5p0a3MBUg3IojvaGkNDe1PUu-YnmI03cKeA1AFORGzFKqBfWGHNmUSybDCXkV1rE1yFkwUcyUj_TQH_bbD5cQus/w400-h330/IMG_2456.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The enemies range from your standard zombie types, chairs and furniture, knives ....all the way to weird looking gut slugs and giant sack covered meat-beasts with a fair few other spectres and spooks thrown in for good measure. And there are a lot of them....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEqsjIGfqOYy1dN7N5VM3ZBE-FpkYz6QUX74IFCCwgkYkJAnZoVU3VmV8dFQlF0WMyNxH2PZnMB8NA_kI_Ibd20rEu0dvzpk25AT2m7GjPSoZdV6LM4WLlKWDLbuviy_kNhJNIFQlZY2EmL5UBo7y53e5L0cEJW3qC_e7ecnzTfz_vfhNzZ9UJlge_tA8/s756/namco04.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="756" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEqsjIGfqOYy1dN7N5VM3ZBE-FpkYz6QUX74IFCCwgkYkJAnZoVU3VmV8dFQlF0WMyNxH2PZnMB8NA_kI_Ibd20rEu0dvzpk25AT2m7GjPSoZdV6LM4WLlKWDLbuviy_kNhJNIFQlZY2EmL5UBo7y53e5L0cEJW3qC_e7ecnzTfz_vfhNzZ9UJlge_tA8/w400-h203/namco04.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Although quite a short game once you know what you're doing, it is incredibly difficult! Stupidly so! I'd like to say that it's just a case of memorizing where enemies will appear and when in order to progress, but while this is mostly true, the game will still throw random enemies at you that unfairly kill you with no real way to avoid it. This will sometimes mean you end up in a death loop that'll quickly eat up your sparse life count, causing a great deal of frustration!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZu3Lzsa_0z8BEBQEa1_1EEU1jQp-e2lNHZFvsLBrpSSA-sKWclsRcrgR7Ya9qrKXubzIpfwtnIZZCgfH4DWJssHX7mSU0TAaZuiRkuZFu-W1n_6iYf9gCRzq0yXeLCoO2Zd_RkiK7RZ2kRC-YdkGzwE4W6mIaPODulz3XH6MAQzSkthPUeyecElDLnmq/s3264/IMG_2457.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZu3Lzsa_0z8BEBQEa1_1EEU1jQp-e2lNHZFvsLBrpSSA-sKWclsRcrgR7Ya9qrKXubzIpfwtnIZZCgfH4DWJssHX7mSU0TAaZuiRkuZFu-W1n_6iYf9gCRzq0yXeLCoO2Zd_RkiK7RZ2kRC-YdkGzwE4W6mIaPODulz3XH6MAQzSkthPUeyecElDLnmq/w400-h300/IMG_2457.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The game does have a checkpoint system that will stop things becoming too annoying though, and there are alternative paths you can try in most levels if you're finding a particular section too much after a while. The PC Engine version is also slightly easier, I find...and I was able to get much further in that than I did in the arcade game.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure I'd recommend Splatterhouse to anyone these days if they weren't a fan of the horror genre though. As mentioned, the gameplay can be annoying, it's really unfair, and it basically just boils down to 'walk right, kill, jump, kill..walk right, die, repeat'......</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_ewz8kUVMPQJkRdtHSujPUUi8RywBhwA-TrGVoO7cpsSYFu5dSbzReRzV5PZ93elW5ABBwfGucM8eIwebukM_Ubudyt1jWWc23ABvduFMK_0YZ0ITTyYpn4OYpnuq35W6-zqthaUsFw4fRqLi4FDqDsLzBAi36-v6ILr2Dzg8dGQAnXNcO6n5xgpveGv/s2831/IMG_2462.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2201" data-original-width="2831" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_ewz8kUVMPQJkRdtHSujPUUi8RywBhwA-TrGVoO7cpsSYFu5dSbzReRzV5PZ93elW5ABBwfGucM8eIwebukM_Ubudyt1jWWc23ABvduFMK_0YZ0ITTyYpn4OYpnuq35W6-zqthaUsFw4fRqLi4FDqDsLzBAi36-v6ILr2Dzg8dGQAnXNcO6n5xgpveGv/w400-h311/IMG_2462.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">But if you love horror movies, even just a little, the atmosphere and style of Splatterhouse will make you forget everything else, and you'll enjoy the gore that seeps from the screen as you battle your way through to Jennifer's aid. As I've mentioned previously, despite its difficulty, the series has become one of my favourites, and this is almost entirely down to the feelings it manages to capture as a love letter to the horror genre...</p><p style="text-align: center;">It's also worth remembering that the game comes from a time when such violence and horror was genuinely rare, if not completely absent in most other games, making it a horror classic by default of being such a rarity! So if you are looking for something a bit grim to spice up your Halloween gaming, you could do worse than playing this....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlA87ag08SdRGxvSXXV1DkGdeUva93K4fTd5txoeBRjz-YrzuV_OaSJ5XxZZNzqmvOT-0Eg61T5rPbVumbv8qIaaJTE-VO8jDYvY4eQyvaVmH11AzkyUY-0aBXviX_S1cfa9OnFKdED9S0ssb2wJChpXSaDILV9TLN2X0_uRutvVjLHtG0l_nIrrR7R1N/s225/sp1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlA87ag08SdRGxvSXXV1DkGdeUva93K4fTd5txoeBRjz-YrzuV_OaSJ5XxZZNzqmvOT-0Eg61T5rPbVumbv8qIaaJTE-VO8jDYvY4eQyvaVmH11AzkyUY-0aBXviX_S1cfa9OnFKdED9S0ssb2wJChpXSaDILV9TLN2X0_uRutvVjLHtG0l_nIrrR7R1N/w320-h320/sp1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFCxF9omSo7ZFTLZq2ht0NjjsBy68H6_j4t0kD7rmh8eu_ae4bjH40AtlBGymh59UtdpAA73BBX1LjmLPYnNxU_2v3hlo3aild9DpgRC6-iFeSXrz0enPh5ztgifwrjhNDutnI70O1fIuTTPKMLV4L-8qVLSG5vj_2qphkL8noKlixT9XmSPjUxChCzn2/s309/s2%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFCxF9omSo7ZFTLZq2ht0NjjsBy68H6_j4t0kD7rmh8eu_ae4bjH40AtlBGymh59UtdpAA73BBX1LjmLPYnNxU_2v3hlo3aild9DpgRC6-iFeSXrz0enPh5ztgifwrjhNDutnI70O1fIuTTPKMLV4L-8qVLSG5vj_2qphkL8noKlixT9XmSPjUxChCzn2/w285-h400/s2%201.jpg" width="285" /></a></b></p><b><br /><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Splatterhouse II (Sega Megadrive/Genesis) :</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Splatterhouse II was my entry point to the series. Back in the day I owned a SNES, but my friend <b>Ed</b> had a Megadrive, and this was always the game I wanted to play when he would hook it up to his TV. Thanks to Ed generously donating me his old Megadrive and games a few years back, I now still have the original cart I used to play back in the day and the original system on which I played it, which still blows my mind!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNB8Q5StbSznbpLP4Au7gtONsk6CUHMw7zqAPJrGWheaCVoVSA7bvYryVbQr2KpXG21j9L-6U1yI8D7mTmzJiX9hkRuzL1q4lnjFjV5E-m_GQEe76FNRf187WnMY4XD2HoqHMrzG46MRUeCmrk_eb0akXRI56ut6uKjisc5D_wEbuEDmx6EmxfKAwPTah/s436/namoff9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="436" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjNB8Q5StbSznbpLP4Au7gtONsk6CUHMw7zqAPJrGWheaCVoVSA7bvYryVbQr2KpXG21j9L-6U1yI8D7mTmzJiX9hkRuzL1q4lnjFjV5E-m_GQEe76FNRf187WnMY4XD2HoqHMrzG46MRUeCmrk_eb0akXRI56ut6uKjisc5D_wEbuEDmx6EmxfKAwPTah/w400-h223/namoff9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This sequel sees Rick recovering from his ordeal in the first game, only to be visited by the reformed Terror Mask which shattered after Rick defeated the final boss of the original game. He was unable to save Jennifer, but the mask persuades Rick to put him on once more, promising that there is still a way to save her and only the mask can help him do so! And so Rick heads to another house and prepares to battle evil once more for another rescue attempt!</p><p style="text-align: center;">As sequels go, this really does go with the 'if it ain't broke' line....literally everything I mentioned about the first game can be said about the sequel! It's still scrolling right to fight, it's still unjustly unfair a lot of the time, and it's still best appreciated if you have a love of gore and horror!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvIf1_JbSsvvDNTL8hxAHYKl6Yl_FgyNdFzRyKrJ4SM3BVM3dg5KvblubTkBCZG1WmdxvstwX7nQxQR3gnEd9_ioR59KC9r61E-jN-zSGib1PIVt-9nOpjKftcv9rsbSYrIVQ0yA9QiJbrl_2B_TgVmsUR99YgPMz3iJmJLFt8u-1RguyGfQh6KzYfFgq/s3255/IMG_2515.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2303" data-original-width="3255" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvIf1_JbSsvvDNTL8hxAHYKl6Yl_FgyNdFzRyKrJ4SM3BVM3dg5KvblubTkBCZG1WmdxvstwX7nQxQR3gnEd9_ioR59KC9r61E-jN-zSGib1PIVt-9nOpjKftcv9rsbSYrIVQ0yA9QiJbrl_2B_TgVmsUR99YgPMz3iJmJLFt8u-1RguyGfQh6KzYfFgq/w400-h283/IMG_2515.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">There are a few small differences to note though. The fact that this game was a console release and not an arcade game, means that a password system has been implemented. Now if the game becomes too much, you can restart at a later date by taking a note of the password which will let you start on that level, skipping any frustrating parts you had to endure to get to that point.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Also, the spooky atmosphere and gruesome graphics have all been spiced up a bit, meaning that it's even more grim and delightfully disgusting than the first game. I remember one magazine review at the time getting a bit upset over the fact that one boss fight has you chainsawing through what look like hanging devil-baby foetuses.....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTG4NyeW1x_fP2cB8AGn83EDYESJ6C3xeFwIc8ZBBIS1YYDcH9wF-PHJVy0_RB0gIKRJEUKQoa1GuKizf4Zdmv34GTB7-r906Huq0eCAdotYft6ooH1R3uXBWYEei-2xO0x6q5Pbll-bWMg2EZiaXjIrsr5oD-LMBz5spvZqJYYV_3cEg7TyUxqzY0qTG/s302/splatterbabies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="302" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTG4NyeW1x_fP2cB8AGn83EDYESJ6C3xeFwIc8ZBBIS1YYDcH9wF-PHJVy0_RB0gIKRJEUKQoa1GuKizf4Zdmv34GTB7-r906Huq0eCAdotYft6ooH1R3uXBWYEei-2xO0x6q5Pbll-bWMg2EZiaXjIrsr5oD-LMBz5spvZqJYYV_3cEg7TyUxqzY0qTG/w400-h221/splatterbabies.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">The sound is an aspect I didn't really mention when talking about the original, but in both games the random screams and spooky tunes help add to the atmosphere, with some nice evil cackles adding some more enjoyment in Splatterhouse II..</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUILtW84Bmn-8-1ltM0jRNr3oF3tgBM-SYfCy07ioy-fFM_SV01UvZIoLesfo7IJA9DK7Z5pOfGknId0DG7hIfOKkxZ9W6M80f8vYZfoFRiEyfvFKGJV6NPFdtKSATBVyIs1c0_c94em04xm_U8A5zCiSrrToPKTXVTqoE6uONKowxJ7KLOlaX2HEpfZqZ/s971/namoff8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="971" data-original-width="554" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUILtW84Bmn-8-1ltM0jRNr3oF3tgBM-SYfCy07ioy-fFM_SV01UvZIoLesfo7IJA9DK7Z5pOfGknId0DG7hIfOKkxZ9W6M80f8vYZfoFRiEyfvFKGJV6NPFdtKSATBVyIs1c0_c94em04xm_U8A5zCiSrrToPKTXVTqoE6uONKowxJ7KLOlaX2HEpfZqZ/w229-h400/namoff8.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">But again, I can't really recommend the game to people if they aren't horror fans. The gameplay is a bit lacking and too tricky for anyone who isn't, and while it seems a bit tamer these days, there might still be some who find the gore and violence a bit distasteful. But I repeat, if you are a fan of the genre, then this is definitely for you....there are few other games that manage to capture the feel and atmosphere as much or as well as the Splatterhouse series!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Somehow, using passwords and perseverance, Ed and I were able to beat Splatterhouse II back in the day, which is something I have yet to do replaying it this year...but I'm going to enjoy the frustrating fun of giving it another go in the run-up to Halloween!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOLTw-XmYl4Bf_Li0J4BP69Gua9-KA2xPZIjRawGcxCPcdEYoSI9QwLqrsFNhtuzfoWG65eY1CFtFlui6RPHaWZEHcPGLk7HlwH8VC2Trq3cgClXVRivE0NMF5eJzy0dcK6QCtyGAWugFR2DOg7F-xl_v8HkeNpllZRFWJ-nkpLleZAui8JYopiNP4rYFy/s3264/IMG_2513.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOLTw-XmYl4Bf_Li0J4BP69Gua9-KA2xPZIjRawGcxCPcdEYoSI9QwLqrsFNhtuzfoWG65eY1CFtFlui6RPHaWZEHcPGLk7HlwH8VC2Trq3cgClXVRivE0NMF5eJzy0dcK6QCtyGAWugFR2DOg7F-xl_v8HkeNpllZRFWJ-nkpLleZAui8JYopiNP4rYFy/s320/IMG_2513.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJQMMPwmnpyMHn-qEVKBBXuPBMQ0qMyugvXuon7QDoQTQC67oxK2DyU7o2wPajqhDklNNH4EkXkl8ozjTlOdEBkiSyhV-cwUZ5_rS4EW-ss-nNDbJvqZ0ScstBteRAfgOA5Bi76bsCBHEtiijvjr6GP6QlEphgvuiYmpEzoT7fBb9AuGZUz8OWaBPQBJu/s500/zombi%20mall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJQMMPwmnpyMHn-qEVKBBXuPBMQ0qMyugvXuon7QDoQTQC67oxK2DyU7o2wPajqhDklNNH4EkXkl8ozjTlOdEBkiSyhV-cwUZ5_rS4EW-ss-nNDbJvqZ0ScstBteRAfgOA5Bi76bsCBHEtiijvjr6GP6QlEphgvuiYmpEzoT7fBb9AuGZUz8OWaBPQBJu/w266-h400/zombi%20mall.jpg" width="266" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Zombi Mall (ZX Spectrum) :</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTg3BqdrsojfAoABYvjSP57mcxP9BVT6M6BBl6jlIADAjbgNSIQXlejjCJE3XV3ySe3IEl4dil6j8f98Tet9QtMyrbibM7Mu-VhKkFWwSoB12b8MKF3XVFd1TkWKgwVNUAn9pi-RzJeXEzv4cIFJnOaCi9go3fVImOHRNt0YlicWzw2_gwU_V3kTQ2B4qs/s347/zm1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="347" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTg3BqdrsojfAoABYvjSP57mcxP9BVT6M6BBl6jlIADAjbgNSIQXlejjCJE3XV3ySe3IEl4dil6j8f98Tet9QtMyrbibM7Mu-VhKkFWwSoB12b8MKF3XVFd1TkWKgwVNUAn9pi-RzJeXEzv4cIFJnOaCi9go3fVImOHRNt0YlicWzw2_gwU_V3kTQ2B4qs/w400-h305/zm1.png" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Zombies really, really love shopping malls don't they!? Ever since George A. Romero's classic 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead, they've been popping up constantly in massive shopping complexes everywhere! I'm pretty sure I've even seen some lurking around my local Aldi store recently.....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyzgZBNlQoZt1wSf9ZJ0rs2hefxqGrHY2TxKzw012PN-kwHr2X_18O_j9T3lQgsVQKqyF3Vz6ofm88Nx1IS3NBNKVdk9IWFimnkBquFC63vpqAMA-eqKc7FXyONMuJUZgJ4R3XbccIuvNWaCPGSoEG7Copj0AqUJv3apYaHgC4tg-xerYxo0ERgpZp62d/s3264/IMG_2517.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSyzgZBNlQoZt1wSf9ZJ0rs2hefxqGrHY2TxKzw012PN-kwHr2X_18O_j9T3lQgsVQKqyF3Vz6ofm88Nx1IS3NBNKVdk9IWFimnkBquFC63vpqAMA-eqKc7FXyONMuJUZgJ4R3XbccIuvNWaCPGSoEG7Copj0AqUJv3apYaHgC4tg-xerYxo0ERgpZp62d/w400-h300/IMG_2517.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, once again, in this game they've taken up residence in one such shopping centre, but outside the walls of the mall it's even worse! As a matter of fact the mall was the best place to be up until recently, with handy resources and food...but then the power cut, and the doors opened, letting a few of the brain munchers inside! And so you've been camped out on the roof for days...but now you've just seen a helicopter, and you need to find some way to get whoever is flying the thing's attention!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDGhr3U6ei_cKKhuXbOd9vqLqyGqK0QJ9VrhfyUlw8qgBWKGhCYr5-3yk_4nfhPRFr7eZG6ogSdlU2nqSe_1cRN_CsUwzjALx-oqPvNGGkovcZW7GUDGtbaw7rN6rW5HM5n1Ee4M_f0SaAC5d04-Om3fQm-TIpSmimw7m902iHJWeS9w2iWLHRIrxOwSH/s3264/IMG_2518.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDGhr3U6ei_cKKhuXbOd9vqLqyGqK0QJ9VrhfyUlw8qgBWKGhCYr5-3yk_4nfhPRFr7eZG6ogSdlU2nqSe_1cRN_CsUwzjALx-oqPvNGGkovcZW7GUDGtbaw7rN6rW5HM5n1Ee4M_f0SaAC5d04-Om3fQm-TIpSmimw7m902iHJWeS9w2iWLHRIrxOwSH/w400-h300/IMG_2518.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And so you must use your wits and ingenuity to escape the mall, by collecting items, combining them, solving puzzles and avoiding the zombies! Luckily they have a limited field of view, so will only bother you if you get too close. Of course, sometimes you will get close, causing you to lose a bit of your energy, so avoiding them as much as possible is definitely the best course of action. Also, don't do what I did in the first few minutes of playing and exit the building via the front door, or you'll be consumed by a massive horde of undead fiends and force an immediate 'Game Over!'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK5PXnkTe-yFY1hNgWKmLkXdQ9hTcOVLOK-uFb-SPwkxWBPg-i_Vlo8CjCvqzD3x_pMpN8DK9dJY7G2DparggvVF29ac-V2LM5KfytVUzoR6OwOHqJvlk06fYZv1d5busaWw4Bt_bjgxn_GwU0IegK9cws8pSrkEsH6oVrxpk4FaF_Ht127ViKAOq9VKAI/s3264/IMG_2520.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK5PXnkTe-yFY1hNgWKmLkXdQ9hTcOVLOK-uFb-SPwkxWBPg-i_Vlo8CjCvqzD3x_pMpN8DK9dJY7G2DparggvVF29ac-V2LM5KfytVUzoR6OwOHqJvlk06fYZv1d5busaWw4Bt_bjgxn_GwU0IegK9cws8pSrkEsH6oVrxpk4FaF_Ht127ViKAOq9VKAI/w400-h300/IMG_2520.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This 2022 release from The Mojon Twins is a fun little adventure, and I enjoyed hunting around for keys and trying to work out which items to use. If you want to try it out for yourself you can find more info and download links at the game's <a href="https://mojontwins.itch.io/zombi-mall-spectrum" target="_blank">Itch.io</a> page! Definitely a great one to be playing during the creepy season.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFKn587L2rN3LjdwpLkMQPXTEKwpZ_FaqdBhXs2aM-Sh4teb1vUoDkzYXDSW-LkpyvhwOyy5G3W-4Ssy0x_Au0_jOruXkmy6ODCwoIQ2_8gXDmQUM-WGMWlBHtv7xPD7omH4PCmsp_xS9QUU3TCCApNMX_JkEH64aGFAUUpHr90oJx1TYkHsNKx_gSVLd/s464/mojon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="464" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFKn587L2rN3LjdwpLkMQPXTEKwpZ_FaqdBhXs2aM-Sh4teb1vUoDkzYXDSW-LkpyvhwOyy5G3W-4Ssy0x_Au0_jOruXkmy6ODCwoIQ2_8gXDmQUM-WGMWlBHtv7xPD7omH4PCmsp_xS9QUU3TCCApNMX_JkEH64aGFAUUpHr90oJx1TYkHsNKx_gSVLd/w400-h93/mojon.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * * </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yLviTIJQH3_0Uw2bK-U8mgpN2YdxAmHusmcg9tu5xd2-_2iZamX1h1sOcQFi8xrvrha5ol-ZlfVIAzL3UfEY6OmQdKaI96k6V6L6QP44ejJbNW0QX5z0E8DCY6M67aoa7G8lrhfNp4pH7tI1IxAD6HNJqncB-zxn2cUpbRF6T-tns91LQp9nTYQEwQAb/s225/resi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4yLviTIJQH3_0Uw2bK-U8mgpN2YdxAmHusmcg9tu5xd2-_2iZamX1h1sOcQFi8xrvrha5ol-ZlfVIAzL3UfEY6OmQdKaI96k6V6L6QP44ejJbNW0QX5z0E8DCY6M67aoa7G8lrhfNp4pH7tI1IxAD6HNJqncB-zxn2cUpbRF6T-tns91LQp9nTYQEwQAb/w320-h320/resi.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Resident Evil - Gaiden (Gameboy Color) :</u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrMzWPWP3jcwKIKPumjIBVV29q3j391Fi-dMcC0brnkciVRxktm8YJ3aHhDR18ClRvu1YmtUVF24EI-3n2nt5n91rkjpTiio5Cv7Q-R0JVP9tQHMmKbimKsQCL6qmbtvWHPtZayeIdc9_JS-qSmWQ4WVwee9XOvCqy-68fF2A7nk7Oq4lVQHmAjiZHuEr/s266/reg1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="266" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGrMzWPWP3jcwKIKPumjIBVV29q3j391Fi-dMcC0brnkciVRxktm8YJ3aHhDR18ClRvu1YmtUVF24EI-3n2nt5n91rkjpTiio5Cv7Q-R0JVP9tQHMmKbimKsQCL6qmbtvWHPtZayeIdc9_JS-qSmWQ4WVwee9XOvCqy-68fF2A7nk7Oq4lVQHmAjiZHuEr/w400-h361/reg1.png" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><u><br /></u></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">As I've mentioned in previous years, I generally try to talk about games that are less well known as I love sharing information about games that might have passed you by. As such, game series like <i>Silent Hill</i> and <i>Resident Evil</i> have been sorely under-represented on the Blog of Stuff. This doesn't mean that I don't tend to include all of the games in these series at some point, because I do eventually....but with <b>Resident Evil Gaiden</b> I can cover a game that whilst being from a well known series, is still one I'm guessing a lot of fans missed!</p><p style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure if the events that take place in Gaiden were ever considered canon in the Resident Evil universe, but if they once where they certainly aren't any more! The plot has <b>Barry Burton</b> going on a mission to rescue <b>Leon Kennedy</b> after he goes missing while investigating a viral outbreak on a cruise ship...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvOcNiBibCRBf9GQPuvQNslrd9xU9aBMdaVuGy7YgJ9g5UexjZO4O_QySY780o2hK173xYS2BYHVF1nYnpGdPlJ_bFuD5g-9-5hYjGdgut_KYCwKSI6CC8irBHPNXVwL1_CJ0A0wpW9ri_aUKDTOXK_EMJIJJeUItnULUye0FF07m7ZOkpc8CnOUmfzQj/s2553/IMG_2468.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="2553" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvOcNiBibCRBf9GQPuvQNslrd9xU9aBMdaVuGy7YgJ9g5UexjZO4O_QySY780o2hK173xYS2BYHVF1nYnpGdPlJ_bFuD5g-9-5hYjGdgut_KYCwKSI6CC8irBHPNXVwL1_CJ0A0wpW9ri_aUKDTOXK_EMJIJJeUItnULUye0FF07m7ZOkpc8CnOUmfzQj/w400-h316/IMG_2468.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">As Barry, you'll find things a little different to how Resi games usually play. Given the limitations of the Gameboy, we obviously couldn't expect fixed-camera, 3D environments...even if <a href="http://deadpanflookandtheblogofstuff.blogspot.com/2011/10/100-gruesome-games-for-halloween-20-11.html" target="_blank">Alone In The Dark</a> did make an attempt at this a few years later, although that game shows that Capcom were probably right in taking a different approaach. That approach being a top-down perspective, where you wander around the ship looking for clues to Leon's whereabouts and try to find out what caused this latest zombie outbreak.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You'll still find some sparse ammo and occasional notes scattered around all over the place, so it has at least retained that from the main games, and although the spookiness has been lost a bit with the shift in perspective, there's still enough exploration and zombie slaying to keep things interesting!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBERNnRszSqNda3z5_kPqLoOHtknatsE_TkZ9I0gZdCRwR1YtdKVZUi5gbrlrKHH2DZ_ajBTeik33qkruY-PdbtqSUJnarmXWwkNtlTAaF0qLW7CaV62qpHSf_iIA9tHw0vR_AqR5B-qX6rbcpzkUC1fcKJRJWRG3EbWgB6VWCMisBKuz9VgqpwiondriF/s2559/IMG_2467.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2225" data-original-width="2559" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBERNnRszSqNda3z5_kPqLoOHtknatsE_TkZ9I0gZdCRwR1YtdKVZUi5gbrlrKHH2DZ_ajBTeik33qkruY-PdbtqSUJnarmXWwkNtlTAaF0qLW7CaV62qpHSf_iIA9tHw0vR_AqR5B-qX6rbcpzkUC1fcKJRJWRG3EbWgB6VWCMisBKuz9VgqpwiondriF/w400-h348/IMG_2467.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The combat is a bit odd though...when you encounter a zombie, either by bumping into one or aiming your gun at them, you'll find yourself in a first-person mode where you're looking through your character's eyes at the approacing undead fiends. I guess this makes Gaiden the first non-lightgun game in the series where you get to stare a zombie straight in the face.....</p><p style="text-align: center;">You blast the baddies by way of a sliding reticle, which moves along a bar at the bottom of the screen. You need to time your fire button press to the moment the reticle reaches the middle of this bar. It seems an odd choice to make for the combat at first, but ultimately this is probably the only bit of the game that has any real sense of tension, as you rush to hit the zombies before they reach you. Apparently the sliding reticle element was original Resident Evil's director <i>Shinji Mikami</i>'s recommendation, with the rest of the battle concept being inspired by creaky old fantasy game <b>Dungeon Master</b>!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTXDrGYmgAp3PFUYzj0MnittxyovlqJrpHdW_2g8X_nkUwCbVMzmaUphvq2EjjrRsCMQFfxvcoH8IBjsLurmVfwy6q_Cs6R6JEjZEnEq5IovnpUqnpAdjCxOs11GYCGhTIZXu36j13kvgE2CIZI3LmcSC0bNeM17SzUqZni3sowrOTuXmJT-Y7MqGH0kz/s2908/IMG_2511.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2430" data-original-width="2908" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTXDrGYmgAp3PFUYzj0MnittxyovlqJrpHdW_2g8X_nkUwCbVMzmaUphvq2EjjrRsCMQFfxvcoH8IBjsLurmVfwy6q_Cs6R6JEjZEnEq5IovnpUqnpAdjCxOs11GYCGhTIZXu36j13kvgE2CIZI3LmcSC0bNeM17SzUqZni3sowrOTuXmJT-Y7MqGH0kz/w400-h334/IMG_2511.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Eventually you'll meet up with Leon, and a character called<b> Lucia</b>...both of which also become playable characters...but as of yet, I've not reached them as I've only just started playing the game myself as one of this year's Halloween treats! </p><p style="text-align: center;">First impressions of the game so far are that it's a wildly different, somewhat less impressive than normal entry in the series, but still has enough of the usual Resident Evil features to feel it's worth playing. The exploration seems decent, and although I feel the combat will get repetitive quickly, there's something oddly enjoyable about seeing the zombies stumbling towards you in first-person on a Gameboy! The in-game music can get a bit grating after a while, but I love the moans from the zombies...an element that helps it keep some of the atmosphere from previous titles.</p><p style="text-align: center;">One point I should mention is that I'm playing via emulation, so I can't really comment on the how the save system would be on an actual Gameboy, but I have heard people mention that for a handheld, having a system that only allows you to save at certain points is a bit annoying..</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPGpUoCE2IzykNUkbTWQ4tMXjDZJNoIzQYF3uWPPWB6dbRRK9pTcgd7Fx2Jf3PpuCTYPj0XMReL3hKuDDidW48L2SfXWBYjsURvPIAeMZYXaBlFQhd-2QL8ixgZyPranr9bGWnnjmQBlv5mqj-BZsCM5_1Q3qWLjsk3vShadwTmOZWogvsFaowob5fH-c/s555/reg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="391" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPGpUoCE2IzykNUkbTWQ4tMXjDZJNoIzQYF3uWPPWB6dbRRK9pTcgd7Fx2Jf3PpuCTYPj0XMReL3hKuDDidW48L2SfXWBYjsURvPIAeMZYXaBlFQhd-2QL8ixgZyPranr9bGWnnjmQBlv5mqj-BZsCM5_1Q3qWLjsk3vShadwTmOZWogvsFaowob5fH-c/w281-h400/reg.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">All in all, it still seems like a game that's worth checking out, even if it is all now some sort of fever dream that Barry Burton had in his downtime after he escaped the mansion of the first game! If anything happens to change my mind after playing it on Halloween, I'll keep you posted.....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvan71cBBviqnRSfTxnTqTfP2MUqHGpGhn7cO1G0CVmjtQcSvSwiuQrVlWL7f23gQWQzy5s-Ir6Q0roml4AeDJVEqvFQqOfNPxhDb2U1CL2JQsJ_LFAZ-_E4hq3c4xoXIC1hLj6vl7YBnMRRX_XkxM9o9uRJLVX0HBSXXWIxNJOEj26vkNr0-gXUs476fH/s2288/IMG_2466.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2018" data-original-width="2288" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvan71cBBviqnRSfTxnTqTfP2MUqHGpGhn7cO1G0CVmjtQcSvSwiuQrVlWL7f23gQWQzy5s-Ir6Q0roml4AeDJVEqvFQqOfNPxhDb2U1CL2JQsJ_LFAZ-_E4hq3c4xoXIC1hLj6vl7YBnMRRX_XkxM9o9uRJLVX0HBSXXWIxNJOEj26vkNr0-gXUs476fH/s320/IMG_2466.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ * * * ~</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Be sure to head over to the Countdown to Halloween hub to see what the other Cryptkeepers have in store for you today, as we get ready to enter the last week of the Countdown! Just click the badge below to find a list of links to wonderful bloggers like <b><a href="https://maplegrovecemetery.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>!</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RRB-i6kGgdtRFijd2ZFladcqIhV1XNdAjuFI__TBeqCWZYMdeY9-HjYPXrGDj56XL2zO2KmC9g06k1puMeG0QeYO4FLFHQvafaMArY_i0fxjga3b-GWLwJsyeDPlo2neHzmyEUuKnpSdPKGmWEvndjxd3F1iJKk9pbPZmb7OsuYucCmBdud5tmqns3VT/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-04.png" width="176" /></a></b></div><b><br /><u><br /></u></b><p></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-32262750648442260182023-10-21T22:48:00.002+01:002023-10-21T22:48:56.748+01:00Cinema of Stuff Presents....Hercules in the Haunted World!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Hercules in the Haunted World (Italy - '<b>Ercole al centro della terra</b>' UK '<b>Hercules at the Center of the Earth'</b>) is a sword-and-sandal film directed by Italian horror director, <b>Mario Bava</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Reg Park</b> (British bodybuilder, previous Mr. Universe and the man who inspired <i>Arnold Schwarzenegger</i> to pick up weights) plays<b> Hercules</b> for the second of five movies in which he played the role, and a de-fanged <b>Christopher Lee</b> appears as the mysterious King Lico.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The film sees Hercules journey to the underworld in search of a magical stone, the only thing that can bring his lady friend <b>Princess Deianira (Leonora Ruffo) </b>back to her senses...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Originally releaased in Italy in 1961, it made it's way to an English dub in 1962, and an American release in 1964, although a different actor voiced Christopher Lee's Lico....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So grab some snacks, dim the lights, sit back and prepare to head to Hades with Herules and pals!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(But first, a few ads!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">*~*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pVJf40LhraK6FR6Qcg9ji7Io9XDfRwuOC6SZD2SsGFhXTRifg-vZ5vcTX42hdBhu53cqlILNNSdW6hY1DzjTLroA2RSSvcAWH_nCyrQfn2Hw-EqxOm-EX_s-Oyc-e8e08ADBFe4tgrPFkh1P6-QHkb5A97cfKebVu8xLa1faCpL7175yg9znI_PWO2kU/s382/IMG_2500.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="373" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pVJf40LhraK6FR6Qcg9ji7Io9XDfRwuOC6SZD2SsGFhXTRifg-vZ5vcTX42hdBhu53cqlILNNSdW6hY1DzjTLroA2RSSvcAWH_nCyrQfn2Hw-EqxOm-EX_s-Oyc-e8e08ADBFe4tgrPFkh1P6-QHkb5A97cfKebVu8xLa1faCpL7175yg9znI_PWO2kU/s320/IMG_2500.jpeg" width="312" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, the power has stayed on long enough for me to get a post in after all….and do you know what? I reckon this Halloween needs a bit of Creeping Menace! And so that is today’s tale, brought to you from <b>ComicBook</b>+ and originally published in <i>Charlton</i> <i>Comic’s</i> <b>Unusual</b> <b>Tales</b> <b>36</b>, dated November 1962!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasQFqlFH4rxWoC5VJYCsHQmqVKG4NpgAQSA8soso8INXdbBstoaMBWwyzjkgk066FtmsxtIXZDex3ubujFN6k9-hsJ_eb-GnGjZEZWFbgEMPLiQES2ARAF4r4Ri01JcZ2jd1yHnDAvnAkaVXNo1miWQcBRVwycWmrYMJjOmJzLdReMzx1cs2wYa-KmuMq/s1468/IMG_2497.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1468" data-original-width="975" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasQFqlFH4rxWoC5VJYCsHQmqVKG4NpgAQSA8soso8INXdbBstoaMBWwyzjkgk066FtmsxtIXZDex3ubujFN6k9-hsJ_eb-GnGjZEZWFbgEMPLiQES2ARAF4r4Ri01JcZ2jd1yHnDAvnAkaVXNo1miWQcBRVwycWmrYMJjOmJzLdReMzx1cs2wYa-KmuMq/w266-h400/IMG_2497.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="135" data-original-width="200" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8u4vmn5DxTuWyiLrpoSZVlLRhe-n6pNfbvwmFtI98jx_bIGcFZekTP1B3lwOEwOnk6QrFmndZ7NpwVa91xvNOH2vCiS0Xgdw47OlsCAEivz_Wm-YuXb2iu2smP2SZIfcf0eRtS9tSyVp6EhffKb49LKYuCnoCS3_DBwm9O32e3bApXHLP5I-lSjhx9i0o" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;">The wind and rain is battering off the windows and we just lost power briefly for the third time this week, so this is just a post to let you know that if I disappear for a day, it’s because Storm Babet has taken our power! Hopefully it won’t and I’ll be able to post as normal, but this is a ‘just in case’ post…..</div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;">Thankfully I’m not in the worst hit part of Scotland, that’s a bit further North, but it’s still pretty rough! A bit worse up near Aberdeen and Angus though, as you can see from this video..</div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s8u_L4Bkqfg" width="320" youtube-src-id="s8u_L4Bkqfg"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;">Hopefully see you all later for my proper post!</div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; width: 480px;"><br /></div>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-33708783282945995312023-10-19T21:02:00.000+01:002023-10-19T21:02:11.744+01:00Spook Sightings of Yester Year - No.25 - The Caledonian Mills Fire Spook (Part 1)<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg2VRSQfxoBcVVlJTXpw41_DRIjxCeN-Qdr9njtEZpWNWCtJWcVeIP9B_cAtBDFkvCCT-DnvLTFgdWLuT4Cpgtpd3ZlxErAYN2W1Mt5CQJq6i3qJHOyR8J83APjri0TBcD5T2cSsj9iPWmLT6eL471XDrfK6eyUlQfNDNb6_zYU8UcGWRqiKiBPGAuVi8X/s430/McDonald%20Farm%20Caledonian%20Mills%20Photo%20Credit%20PictouAntigonish%20Regional%20Library.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="430" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg2VRSQfxoBcVVlJTXpw41_DRIjxCeN-Qdr9njtEZpWNWCtJWcVeIP9B_cAtBDFkvCCT-DnvLTFgdWLuT4Cpgtpd3ZlxErAYN2W1Mt5CQJq6i3qJHOyR8J83APjri0TBcD5T2cSsj9iPWmLT6eL471XDrfK6eyUlQfNDNb6_zYU8UcGWRqiKiBPGAuVi8X/w400-h300/McDonald%20Farm%20Caledonian%20Mills%20Photo%20Credit%20PictouAntigonish%20Regional%20Library.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">McDonald Farm, Caledonia Mills : Picture Credit - Pictou Antigonish Regional Library</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">While searching for more spooky happenings in old newspapers over at <i><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/" target="_blank">Newspapers.com </a>, </i>I discovered the tale of the McDonald family, who just over 100 years ago, had to deal with a series of strange events that occurred on their farm at <b>Caledonia Mills</b>, Nova Scotia, Canada. This caused quite a stir back in the day, with eventually even <b>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, </b>creator of Sherlock Holmes and avid Spiritualist, doing a bit of research on the case! As such, there's enough newsprint for this to be a three or four part spook-sighting, so we'll see how we go as we go along.....but without further ado, let's start investigating this strange case via the reports themselves.....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From <b>The Evening Mail</b>, dated Thursday, January 19th 1922</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Antigonish Farming Community Is Aroused By Mysterious Actions Beleieved To Be Work Of "Spooks"</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Series of Fires Break Out in Farmer's Home Which Puzzled Investigators - Blazes Are Seen in Various Parts of the Home From No Apparent Cause - Family is Forced to Move to Another House - Outbreaks Usually Follow Big Storms.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">------------------------</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><b>(Special to The Herald)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>ANTIGONISH, Jan. 18.- Antigonish county has a mystery, which for genuine spookiness and unfathomableness rivals the most weird tales of Edgar Allan Poe. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Nestled in a lonely and isolated spot back from the Antigonish-Guysboro main road, between Caledonia Mills and Roman Valley, is a farm house. It is in Antigonish county, on the border of the neighboring county. Living in this house were Mr. and Mrs. Alexander MacDonald and an adopted child, a little girl. Their nearest neighbors were over a mile away. Six years ago strange things happened in Mr. MacDonald's barn. Several mornings he found several of his cattle loose which had been securely fastened the previous night. On other occasions the horse was discovered fastened in an altogether different manner than he had left it the night before.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>This happened so often that Mr. MacDonald, being puzzled, sold the horse. He bought another one from Peter MacDonald, Antigonish, and was more mystified than ever when the same thing commenced to happen to this animal. As in the case of the other horse, the new one was tied securely at night and in the morning he was found fastened in a different place.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Mr. MacDonald was then convinced that the horse and cattle could not perform these acts themselves. The place was given a "spooky" reputation on this account.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>There is a sequel to this story which is even more mysterious than these happenings. For some time, a series of fires broke out in Mr. MacDonald's house. They were of unknown origin and there was no accounting for them. One morning, it is said, Mr. MacDonald came down to the kitchen to light the fire. He was surprised to see some cinders on the stove. Looking overhead he discovered a burnt place in the ceiling. A few minutes later he saw a lounge in an adjoining room on fire. He extinguished this and then found a chair on fire which he had been sitting in only a few seconds before.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ntZ6i6y4XyCJ_agpu1BXZaCbzt_R3mr5vMogbEUe3RF-g13mNBhKOZAwQ_DFB55mQOt3G4KbqtK3QMynUOKWd3V8isbsJsKs7JLkIVoPRr2iH7qJLhe8fk9YPxc8CFkWBkbKbAOLGKhMNQxBZcDjUly8BDBtpinDtCBnU5ri1KhJAdj_IvkYm_LLc_ht/s320/Mary%20Ellen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="222" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ntZ6i6y4XyCJ_agpu1BXZaCbzt_R3mr5vMogbEUe3RF-g13mNBhKOZAwQ_DFB55mQOt3G4KbqtK3QMynUOKWd3V8isbsJsKs7JLkIVoPRr2iH7qJLhe8fk9YPxc8CFkWBkbKbAOLGKhMNQxBZcDjUly8BDBtpinDtCBnU5ri1KhJAdj_IvkYm_LLc_ht/s1600/Mary%20Ellen.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>---</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>These things naturally alarmed all the occupants of the house, and one night recently three men from Caledonia Mills, James MacGillivray, his brother Leo and Duncan MacDonald, hoping to discover the origin of the strange fires, went to the MacDonald house to spend the night. It happened that there were more outbreaks on this occasion than at any previous time. It is said that they fought 38 seperate fires in the house between five o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock the next morning.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>The first fire broke out over the mantle near the stove. This was not thought so strange, but when the next one was seen in the sink the young men began to realize that there was indeed a deep mystery involved. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Fires broke out in various parts of the house throughout the night. The furniture either on this occasion or a previous one was moved from the parlor. One of the sofa cushions, it is said, was thrown upstairs, where it broke out into flames. </span>Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald decided after this to leave their home. They took all their furniture and other belongings with them and moved into a house some distance from the house of mystery.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">The Mail's correspondent made inquires today and was told by a number of reliable people who are well acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald and that section of the country, that they had heard of these strange occurences from neighbors of the MacDonalds and that the story was absolutely authentic.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A lady of Croft, a settlement seven miles from the scene of the mystery, confirms the information which has been gathered in Antigonish, adding that most of the outbreaks of fire were unusually frequent and severe on the night of the big storm.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A strange thing about the fires is that besides breaking out suddenly and unexpectedly, directly under the eyes of witnesses, several of them were so small that they could be blown out and smothered by the naked hand. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. MacDonald's house is 25 miles from the town of Antigonish.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrATeMXQLz8UlVEdhIGXrbgMUuJcqfpdhGrvfGPFs8u5ome-1ZaMS98MrNEMKcoUtiRR1XaTa-ND-UXSPAPMq8TNMuU001HtrSQUInF6wvtiLoYPhb87Se9hIA3dqslXpUvu_1ew2hSdHiV2INTO6F3V0WcLWnmcoaiwJIrMVVdxmD2A_wIs-UUbSVbE-/s458/Image1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="458" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrATeMXQLz8UlVEdhIGXrbgMUuJcqfpdhGrvfGPFs8u5ome-1ZaMS98MrNEMKcoUtiRR1XaTa-ND-UXSPAPMq8TNMuU001HtrSQUInF6wvtiLoYPhb87Se9hIA3dqslXpUvu_1ew2hSdHiV2INTO6F3V0WcLWnmcoaiwJIrMVVdxmD2A_wIs-UUbSVbE-/s320/Image1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From <b>The</b> <b>Evening Mail</b>, dated Wednesday, January 25th, 1922</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Eye-Witnesses Tell Of Mysterious Fires In Home of Antigonish Farmer</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Leo MacGillivary and Duncan MacDonald, eye-witnesses to the mysterious fire which have occurred in the house of Alexander MacDonald, a respected farmer at Caledonia Mills, near Antigonish, have confirmed reports of the fires already published in The Herald. In their interviews with Harold B. Whidden, the Herald representative, who visited the fire solely as a newpaper correspondent, they add to the mystery which deepens as the facts are brought out.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It has been suggested in Antigonish that detectives or scientists be sent to the scene of the "spookish" incidents to conduct a thorough investigation, which has puzzled hundreds who have already visited the MacDonald house. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Here is what the eye-witnesses say about the mysterious fires:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Leo MacGillivray, who gave his age as 32, said that he was born at Caledonia Mills, and that he had always lived at home, with the exception of a few years when he was in Cobalt, engaged in electrical work. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. And Mrs. Alexander had been their closest neighbors ever since he could remember. They were respectable people, who did not, so far as he knew, have an enemy in the world. They were good people and fine neighbors, who always minded their own business.</p><p style="text-align: center;">(<i>*suddenly the paper goes into the actual statement from Leo here, without warning ~ Deadpan Flook</i>)</p><p style="text-align: center;">Dan arrived at the MacDonald house about five minutes after Duncan and I. He waited for a little while, and when there was no sign of any fire, thinking that there was no need of his assistance, he went back home. We made a fire in the kitchen stove to keep ourselves warm. It was raining and blowing, and the house was damp and cold from this, and the water that had been used to put out the fires.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I saw in the house Mr. and Mrs. Alex MacDonald, Mary Ellen, their adopted daughter, and Duncan MacDonald. I am absolutely positive that, outside of my brother Dan, who had left shortly after he came, that there was no one else in the house while I was there. We all sat down in the kitchen, leaving the door open, so that we could see the dining room and parlor.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"We were there probably twenty minutes," he said, "when the whole house seemed to become illuminated, as suddenly and as brightly as if a short circuit occurred on a high tension electric wire - this is the only way I know how to describe it. The blaze was brighter, though. There was no noise of any kind. I saw in an instant that it came from the parlor, and made a dash for it. A green window blind was enveloped in flames. I tore it off the wall and saved two little strips. The flame was pale blue. the only thing I ever saw resembling it for color was a short circuit. Besides seeing this fire break out so suddenly in so unexpected a quarter - where there had been no sign of fire before, and where there was nothing from any of the previous fires that could have caused it - and thinking this very strange, I noticed that the flame was not very hot.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>---</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">It did not even singe any of the hair off the back of my hands or my eyebrows. We were all back in the kitchen again for five or ten minutes when a blaze broke out on the wet wall paper in the dining room. This was an ordinary-looking fire. No fire had broken out in that place before. The next outbreak was in the parlor - a cardboard picture, resembling a calendar, on the wall. It was blazing, and was hanging over the pipe hole of the main chimney. The fire could not have caught from the chimney, as there had been no fire in the stove that led to it for several days. This fire occurred on the side of the room directly opposite the blind. We were afraid that the house was going to burn down, and Duncan went to our place, and got dan to give the alarm over the telephone. It was so stormy and the walking so bad that, although a number of people started for the house, none of them got there until daylight.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"While Duncan was gone, I put out a fire in the paper on the wall in the dining room, and one upstairs in some rags, including pieces of old cotton. Dan just arrived when probably the strangest thing of all occurred. A sofa cushion, which we were all positive had been put upstairs some time before, <b>was found burning on the slats of the bed in the parlor. </b>We were all in the kitchen, and smelled cotton burning. Almost instantly the parlor became illumined and we found this cushion on fire.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz07NQTqBoe0viEk6sqVhbeJqD-opj_RKFrLTPkfvY2P9zYLp6Lgs937BUo8EdLfLyLuQg-1fjy8iCRb12nEFuJdyuaNkFKHg_58zCGc8M69VKX8fqEbQNG7dEv55EGFDH-HnhzZxX8xuSE-M70QKDGlKbYmTYoLYhJjoARJkXryDHEiAArGenlDpfMsed/s1300/reward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1132" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz07NQTqBoe0viEk6sqVhbeJqD-opj_RKFrLTPkfvY2P9zYLp6Lgs937BUo8EdLfLyLuQg-1fjy8iCRb12nEFuJdyuaNkFKHg_58zCGc8M69VKX8fqEbQNG7dEv55EGFDH-HnhzZxX8xuSE-M70QKDGlKbYmTYoLYhJjoARJkXryDHEiAArGenlDpfMsed/w349-h400/reward.jpg" width="349" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reward for best answers to What Caused the Fires offered by the Herald and Mail</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">Leo MacGillivray said that Mr. MacDonald put six fires out before he, his brother Dan, and Duncan MacDonald, arrived at about 10.30. Between that time and 5 o'clock in the morning, they extinguished 31 different fires. There was only one outbreak after daylight.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"I cannot recall them all, to mind, but I remember the principal ones. In the parlor there was a framed picture hanging on the wall (the Herald correspondent saw this picture and the charred scar on the wall). Behind the picture was a small cardboard box. Fire broke out here, and we found cotton burning in the box.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Another exceptionally peculiar outbreak occurred in the parlor as well. There was a cardboard box found burning on the floor. It had been used for holding a gift - a Christmas gift I think. We thought we had removed everything of the kind from the room. We found cotton burning in it, and no one seemed to know how either the box or the cotton got there.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">"In the dining room there was a dresser, or sideboard. There was a cotton pillow case hanging to this. It caught, and I saw it in flames." Continuing he said, "a small piece of white cotton - I could not say if it was new or not - caught fire on the bare table in the bed room. It was a bright flame. A cotton sheet under the bed in this room also caught. One piece of cotton that I saw burning in the dining room was red.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"I found pieces of cotton burning in the paper - that is, with the wall paper and newpapers behind the wall paper - that was not there when I was there only a few minutes before.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"One time Mr. MacDonald and Mary Ellen spent about half an hour scraping paper off the wall. they had no sooner gone into the kitchen than a fire started just where they had been working.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"I saw paper burning when it was wet. A piece of wet paper was picked off the floor , and <b>put on a table where I saw it break into flames. </b>There must have been three inches of water on the floor, when I saw a wet dishcloth, or rag burst into flames, and I put it out. Mary Ellen corroborated this.</p><p style="text-align: center;">"Two small baskets caught fire at different times, in different parts of the house. Cotton was found burning in each. The piece in one basket was very small. A cardboard raisin box caught on the bureau - there was cotton in it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. MacGillivray said, and his brother Dan corroborated his statements, that there was a heavy odor of burning cotton with most of the fires, and the smoke was thick. After each fire, they did not smell oil or gasoline, and had never heard of any natural gas, phosperous or any thing of that kind about the place.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr MacDonald, his wife and adopted daughter, both said that there was no gasoline, or anything in the house, to their knowledge, which could have caused such fires. The MacGillivray boys said that in most cases, the flame was very bright, and did not seem like blazes from an ordinary fire. They started suddenly, with no noise. There was very little heat, but lots of smoke.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The interior of the house was a sorry looking spectacle when the Herald correspondent and Huntley MacNaughton saw it, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. We went out the second time to take some pictures. There were many signs of fire, but not in one instance was there any charred mark or scorched place to be seen which would show where even one fire passed through the wall or ceiling of one room into another. The truth is, the walls and ceilings were intact.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">A few floor boards had been torn up upstairs, but they were merely singed or browned by fire. In fact, the only wood in the house that suffered to any extent - and even this did not amount to much - was the beam in the kitchen which caught the first night. Some of the boards that comprised the loft were also charred in places, but for a series of fires, the scars were chiefly to be found in cotton extinguished in almost every case by water. All who spent the memorable Wednesday night in the house, who were interviewed, said that some of the outbreaks were put out easily, by the naked hand. Duncan MacDonald was the only one of the principals not interviewed. He was not home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald and Mary Ellen left the house the next morning. They never expect to go back. Mrs MacDonald told the Herald correspondent that she was excited for a while that she did not mind the strange occurence very much. The reaction is setting in now, however, and she and Mr. MacDonald both carry the effects of their trying experience in their faces. Asked why they finally decided to leave the house they both said : <b>Because we were afraid we would be burned to death in our beds some night." </b>Mr. MacDonald said that since he left the house, one thing that he felt sorry about was that he had not allowed one of the fires to burn just to see if it would have completely destroyed the house. They are planning on building a house handier the main road.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The day that the house was ravaged, neighbors hauled their furniture and other household effects to MacGillivray's house, where the fugitives spent three days. They then moved into a vacant house a few feet from the main road owned by Colin McArthur. They were still living there.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There is something pathetic about this old lady of 69, in ill-health and frail-looking, and her honest, hard-working husband, and the joy of their hearts, their fifteen-year-old capable adopted daughter, feeling impelled to leave their home under such mysterious circumstances in the middle of winter. They have no idea of the origin of the fires, and are mystified. They all said that before the fires they were happy in their home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">---</p><p style="text-align: center;">Owing to the heavy snow in the woods, Mr. MacDonald's horse and cattle are still in his barn. This man of seventy wades through the deep snow in the woods to feed and water this stock twice a day - and every time he re-visits his barn he sees the home in which he had spent some of his happiest years. But it might just as well not be his any longer. It has seen happy hearts made heavy.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Since reports of strange happenings in Mr. MacDonald's barn were freely circulated about the country, it is interesting to know just what Mr. MacDonald said occurred. The following story was first related by Leo MacGillivray, and later related to Mr MacDonald, who said it was true.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Leo said "About five weeks ago, Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald both told me about their cattle getting loose in the barn last spring. They said that they would fasten them in the old-fashioned wooden stanchions, which consisted of two upright poles, the one fastened securely to the floor and a beam above: the other arranged so that the upper end could be pushed backward in a hewn-out cavity. When the cow's head was put between these bars, the one that moved was drawn up. A wooden pin was then pushed through an auger hole behind the pin in the beam, or cross-piece, locking the animal in. Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald said that the cattle used to be left securely fastened in this manner, and that between eight and ten o'clock at night the pin would be withdrawn and they would get loose.</p><p style="text-align: center;">After a few days, Mr. MacDonald drove nails through the pins, but the same thing happened, and none of the nails were found again. He then drove in the pins, hammered nails through them, and even fastened the cattle with chains from around their horns fastened securely to the stanchions. And they still got loose. This lasted for two weeks, when it stopped as suddenly as it had started."</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mary Ellen, the adopted daughter, broke in when Mr. MacDonald was corroborating Leo MacGillivray's statements, and said: " I remember all about it. A good many times after milking we left the cows tied with the chans and other things, and five minutes afterwards found them loose. I helped sometimes to tie them again myself."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* ~ *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Hmm, so what do we make of this so far? The fact that cotton was found at every single fire is a bit suspicious, isn't it...seems a bit human to be using cotton for fires! And fires starting where Mr. McDonald and Mary Ellen just were is a bit suspicious too....but we shouldn't be hasty to jump to conclusions. Such haste can have consequences that last a long time, as we'll see later in the story...and there are a few extra surprises and mysteries still lurking behind this strange story, so be sure to come back for the next part(s) later in the month! </p><p style="text-align: center;">As always though, there is plenty to keep you occupied until then as Cryptkeepers like <b><a href="http://meandyouandablognamedboo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Me and You and a Blog Named Boo</a> </b>continue the countdown to the big day! Clicking the badge below will take you to the Countdown To Halloween hub, where you can find a list of all of this year's participants....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvppQSrGNiJH-lrGPkaX2PQGx3ktsJ1RwuS-lbsCRTQAKMywAfmUcA1B8uudMKl7ckU0dzb3vZYPDzmbEmNMdCAo30cPooGO6jAxz0TWRIvSk5rXROl-sh3NfWM2MOcxIGuyoXnBMjfq12VdOtQNWfxojgLitXUcO9jdpmRmufIBy86H8FAHKBOt7IYE_-/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-02.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-51151249882007977522023-10-18T16:55:00.005+01:002023-10-18T16:55:58.303+01:00Prisoner In The Atom!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2WweMHwFxkpIGRQcRP0_AWbcrzOoCtHTXsXhhzXiRuYg2l1pvvO-8W4OdYN9nq1_FvQ9wrzR6mBE5mFn5elLZoRlAkYtTlanxYpQKvAFNajmgjm94Jtxhn8OmGmqR-dv8Yv01M0hJAFXa4isWFhQewb9Wt4Inr9ysoRiTZbMm0mF1UhSHnPwV9TOHc3B/s644/as.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj2WweMHwFxkpIGRQcRP0_AWbcrzOoCtHTXsXhhzXiRuYg2l1pvvO-8W4OdYN9nq1_FvQ9wrzR6mBE5mFn5elLZoRlAkYtTlanxYpQKvAFNajmgjm94Jtxhn8OmGmqR-dv8Yv01M0hJAFXa4isWFhQewb9Wt4Inr9ysoRiTZbMm0mF1UhSHnPwV9TOHc3B/s320/as.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alan Class Comics was a British comics publishing company that operated between 1959 and 1989. They produced anthology titles, reprinting comics stories from many U.S. publishers of the 1940s to 1960s in a black and white digest size format for us UK types to read. During the '60s, '70s and '80s these reprints were the main medium through which British children were introduced to American monster and mystery comics, as well as most non-DC or Marvel superheroes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It was through these comics that my love for old horror comics was born, and a lot of the stories I read in them have stuck with me for years. Today's post shares one of these stories with you, one which I must have read when I was about 6 or 7....</p><p style="text-align: center;">I had to go to <a href="https://comicbookplus.com/" target="_blank">ComicBook+</a> to find this one, as it originally appeared in Charlton Comics' Unusual Tales, Issue 42, dated November 1963. Unlike when I first read it in Astounding Stories, this one is in colour too, so it's a new experience for me reading it like this!</p><p style="text-align: center;">(Script: Joe Gill? | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Vince Alascia )</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3PFkKqRc0mXuW5MTLf5g0rq2O26_s_Rc1g411T6NiewIEAkAFJvjw3FQurenMdm1JmPa_b_eboQbnRCfJcXl0SpTiBobiYfZxB4airS1qlS_rDA8TED7ygbKuHgOBT_g6jg9t6Hhu4l0qhTJGipNBzpfN5wDwWKTKiZRZzRF4ApbyfOQq8n7vJWYWb_v/s1428/0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="975" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3PFkKqRc0mXuW5MTLf5g0rq2O26_s_Rc1g411T6NiewIEAkAFJvjw3FQurenMdm1JmPa_b_eboQbnRCfJcXl0SpTiBobiYfZxB4airS1qlS_rDA8TED7ygbKuHgOBT_g6jg9t6Hhu4l0qhTJGipNBzpfN5wDwWKTKiZRZzRF4ApbyfOQq8n7vJWYWb_v/w273-h400/0.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It always reminded me a little of the end of the old Twilight Zone episode 'Time Enough At Last', which was another early favourite story of mine! </p><p style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Anyway, hope you enjoyed that! I'll need to hunt down some of my other favourites and see if they are in the public doman and shareable now too! In the meantime, all the other Cryptkeepers, like <b><a href="https://raincausespaininmybrain.tumblr.com/">The Rain Causes Pain In My Brain</a></b>, have lot of groovy posts to keep you entertained. Head on over to the Coutdown Hub by clicking the badge below, and you'll find a list of all of this year's participants. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1f1ccArSn3UP7qI5_Y4-0aBym4vOcgJtpx8bSh3W3hDhWYMuehDtdnwr7qlixcP3ZV1LhfNRY9yml6EwpGtfR9HrsZ60CfhPp0dvtxdt7Lf787EunsGjcS4DrFXaXs0mQ8-He-Wgz0e3P80ArNJ0aQ1CS4YAH_oKwTGOUWd-4IUCyxTxIVpW4z-Ypdg1/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-05.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-63461404971453555832023-10-17T23:58:00.006+01:002023-10-18T00:07:41.372+01:00Cool and Creepy Stuff I Own - Part 3 - Pop-Up Dracula!<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIFAoHnG97MSTeajnKP-xDNcpHJOOgKdvOhyphenhyphenK82trM0QKhmyoXjtgVUAkSIpcQDKpmswY8CQucpJZ52r85jqHHavXe0ybFv8zCezQcIxghrMGGWf-5ZfgA1Ur0o1Yd7cpqrdgQCcEML3azR_mbm7GiurKr_yYrL2H5GO2GW8qe8uZef4_yTED8O63ziWA/s2354/IMG_2391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2354" data-original-width="2297" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIFAoHnG97MSTeajnKP-xDNcpHJOOgKdvOhyphenhyphenK82trM0QKhmyoXjtgVUAkSIpcQDKpmswY8CQucpJZ52r85jqHHavXe0ybFv8zCezQcIxghrMGGWf-5ZfgA1Ur0o1Yd7cpqrdgQCcEML3azR_mbm7GiurKr_yYrL2H5GO2GW8qe8uZef4_yTED8O63ziWA/w390-h400/IMG_2391.jpeg" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today I’d like to share this lovely Pop-Up version of Dracula I found in a charity shop (thrift store, to you American types!)…..published by Walker Books, it’s a graphic novel style adaptation of Stoker’s classic, with lots of cool pictures coming out of the page and into your face as you read!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It’s probably best to let the images speak for themselves with this, although it might be a bit tricky to get the full effect given that they’re not in 3D. If I had an extra pair of hands I would have done a video, but my set up doesn’t allow for me to film and turn pages at the same time yet! Hopefully these will give you a rough idea of what to expect from the book….I won’t print much of the actual story though…you’ll need to find your own copy to read that!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjgxr_baWObT_d2eJhGGG8BuNOfl4lLJGmKhggEpuploKCMrUYOiH2YJeE95Ktt6w9q2VA4mK1MOifdsu5HIo1-BV-GxBlM55ywZ6Z8Ora8EZIC3v965hFINnpxmcIhD2WF4iivGs_q6OLQ_jGL7hmu45UD_ExZyrRU3iFQXvX8krufcwCk0uASvixMVm/s3264/IMG_2392.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjgxr_baWObT_d2eJhGGG8BuNOfl4lLJGmKhggEpuploKCMrUYOiH2YJeE95Ktt6w9q2VA4mK1MOifdsu5HIo1-BV-GxBlM55ywZ6Z8Ora8EZIC3v965hFINnpxmcIhD2WF4iivGs_q6OLQ_jGL7hmu45UD_ExZyrRU3iFQXvX8krufcwCk0uASvixMVm/w400-h300/IMG_2392.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Lets try a very poor attempt at a video to show you it in action as best as I can right now…</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfGBx5q7gr4530NEDzCXmWgahrg8lhcokxCINuUldH2BN8KRvMTr7Sy9TDeI0E6lv6uZXBRN51fKvyCX0dzg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That might give you a slightly better idea of how that one works! These next few should work well enough in photos though….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBuXP38l3XfBLHENl8AeaaRXI_MDKwFh7hOJHp8cry4ZEWJ1nh-DjTRWji5qfivRQoXDCRkEXuGmxm3tUq6rz8pA9CciKvcg5BAwYLLLWtTN5PQ_4Pi98S9jVZQEjLUgNqBsARBkPIxi7KAlqlpbKA8OYJ7qMv8vXGK_2tBH9oktxJKi6-Z7Ujx6QQGas/s3264/IMG_2404.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBuXP38l3XfBLHENl8AeaaRXI_MDKwFh7hOJHp8cry4ZEWJ1nh-DjTRWji5qfivRQoXDCRkEXuGmxm3tUq6rz8pA9CciKvcg5BAwYLLLWtTN5PQ_4Pi98S9jVZQEjLUgNqBsARBkPIxi7KAlqlpbKA8OYJ7qMv8vXGK_2tBH9oktxJKi6-Z7Ujx6QQGas/w300-h400/IMG_2404.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qJP8k3UX0MMBSV47yVbL2OoiLCOueGIC_KaeAYJTlKihwkpfeVr38WlJ7hHVs_hPlLzitBKeZjIAMSgfJPGJ7-nuLcMqfI__kBVzD0xTX6rOovkhEtl3dqW6GQZ1Xp-COcuI-QWIiqYn2VXLQxsKwq7BazgdiyVqzRxroOwU4WWZjdBW58iJt37OwUUB/s3264/IMG_2400.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I wonder what other books they have in their colection! I’ll need to keep an eye out for those too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYwPZhlKzt_qD01BMJMpjaPM4RUUexjwt4Wkk4ICuN0dlZ-gKeIqDH0OP79QqeM-2n2GgFEaTZ_NVGoJ8yKCKMt_GRXAIRqfLpTFYSf7mlir31cbQMFvxo26ZLgLHFcJWKqi3z5zt-_j5bHzHwrNQdHkkIFUR9yuaLuISMhoKOAnimcRO1jlqmAkdXN7qw/s3264/IMG_2408.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYwPZhlKzt_qD01BMJMpjaPM4RUUexjwt4Wkk4ICuN0dlZ-gKeIqDH0OP79QqeM-2n2GgFEaTZ_NVGoJ8yKCKMt_GRXAIRqfLpTFYSf7mlir31cbQMFvxo26ZLgLHFcJWKqi3z5zt-_j5bHzHwrNQdHkkIFUR9yuaLuISMhoKOAnimcRO1jlqmAkdXN7qw/s320/IMG_2408.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*Edit - A quick hunt online turned up another couple in the series! Definitely going to have to add these to the collection down the line too…they look just as awesome!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKk_POyF1JIOHhqVwk1xATrsp_N1oZKAN_W3y7NHhjJnxJTg4HN6dvfk8IdBY7vFuX3ARlB3FiwG8L0l4VAevXJci-xJ6JUDbdsYnbYGq4mWsRHWaiekkV028BuK5TP3UE2lXLwI3_2B2p3LkL77oh9vZaaC_sk9JrIaK8gd73IwM6Tu-gMgMQaY9rrM2g/s400/IMG_2488.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="347" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKk_POyF1JIOHhqVwk1xATrsp_N1oZKAN_W3y7NHhjJnxJTg4HN6dvfk8IdBY7vFuX3ARlB3FiwG8L0l4VAevXJci-xJ6JUDbdsYnbYGq4mWsRHWaiekkV028BuK5TP3UE2lXLwI3_2B2p3LkL77oh9vZaaC_sk9JrIaK8gd73IwM6Tu-gMgMQaY9rrM2g/s320/IMG_2488.jpeg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuo3OwP8-S_L4CU_16d7C75o7JuaQWwqJm6KG5ADAhDZjdyMk78HfRtCFTBFHgckTP7nEqM2WTvQZ3I4ArDi7kUmf98407ZUPsEloO-3iNo8hsz08skj0msUMgtz9X1U_-HkiFs5S6cdCDrnJn0wrj4RiMPsDJKYOQj6jL1QoYpEQmnZEUFTdlH8kzVtvU/s400/IMG_2489.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuo3OwP8-S_L4CU_16d7C75o7JuaQWwqJm6KG5ADAhDZjdyMk78HfRtCFTBFHgckTP7nEqM2WTvQZ3I4ArDi7kUmf98407ZUPsEloO-3iNo8hsz08skj0msUMgtz9X1U_-HkiFs5S6cdCDrnJn0wrj4RiMPsDJKYOQj6jL1QoYpEQmnZEUFTdlH8kzVtvU/s320/IMG_2489.jpeg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">—————————————————————————</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you enjoyed that! Be sure to head over to the Countdown hub by clicking the badge below and see what every one else has in store for you as we head into the last couple of weeks of the Countdown to Halloween!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOalsI4Fa0SW8H8dsqTW5xPD5dHxbSbvLeuDH6zBjFNHh-63AywmDM1zd5Qeb1VjDK4-PTEkDO-2JosmxEGKXSGjKA0AlWfC3MpSC7lj97d4Q4toeAgwdqGur5wG7eDPFjc-lzUOnLK8vP2bQ9f-_XpoU2Ul4IMJBhuqVmAoXAEga8RABFDGE9M0acluKi/s1600/IMG_2325.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Blimey! Did I do that in time? Really rushed this post at the last minute! 😅)</div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-39876478148709354022023-10-16T23:20:00.000+01:002023-10-16T23:20:00.797+01:00Cinema of Stuff Presents….”Everything You Wanted To Know About Monsters….But Were Afraid!”<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJmYB-uhRrppuSUA2h61_C7fbjjwShfjQhwGsKB8iFBMSyiaw30b2tGyhgdaGP-QJxuanpoSw4YUPZvGRIafo7FGfXMW23_ulihbXA18uTDVxC6gaZAUKKoJoA1cmZVSsS1dj5cBowqLJVcr4L-_lqM1xKYPW7YauU5Ld8TiVC0jVxOcez4S_GPpwRhle/s2617/IMG_2477.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2022" data-original-width="2617" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJmYB-uhRrppuSUA2h61_C7fbjjwShfjQhwGsKB8iFBMSyiaw30b2tGyhgdaGP-QJxuanpoSw4YUPZvGRIafo7FGfXMW23_ulihbXA18uTDVxC6gaZAUKKoJoA1cmZVSsS1dj5cBowqLJVcr4L-_lqM1xKYPW7YauU5Ld8TiVC0jVxOcez4S_GPpwRhle/s320/IMG_2477.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">A change of planned post tonight, as I had to deal with some unforeseen family drama, which I won’t go into here other than to say it’s nothing new, and nothing too serious, but quite frequent and annoying. There may well be a blog post about it someday, but now is not the time or place….</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Anyway, hopefully things will get back on track tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s a nice little documentary I found over on The Museum of Classic Chicago Television’s Youtube channel….not being an American, I obviously didn’t see a lot of the old TV you guys got in the 70s, 80s and 90s…but after discovering this channel I get to find lots of cool things I missed!</p><p style="text-align: center;">The museum is a non-profit dedicated to preservation…here’s their mission statement!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivt1Sb922dd2YHaTtUWQonwMxkqjNF7dY8lf_d5KoxLajnkU6-6R3g234VPfDuhcxork2WAijLxQfmpQcfd6EeD237p3xTd4n5UaI7bnYqAxFYQUeIp3T2Jf8NR3ybxDf5j_edNr4OdZpg9viF8ZVXDN8nsPnEokSFt0kj30ouLCnE2MPgnxgylB_4OWja/s759/IMG_2476.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="651" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivt1Sb922dd2YHaTtUWQonwMxkqjNF7dY8lf_d5KoxLajnkU6-6R3g234VPfDuhcxork2WAijLxQfmpQcfd6EeD237p3xTd4n5UaI7bnYqAxFYQUeIp3T2Jf8NR3ybxDf5j_edNr4OdZpg9viF8ZVXDN8nsPnEokSFt0kj30ouLCnE2MPgnxgylB_4OWja/s320/IMG_2476.jpeg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Anyway, this documentary takes a look at the monster phenomenon, mostly through old film and TV, and was originally aired on Chicago local TV on the 23rd of October, 1981…hope you enjoy it!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L0BwA-o66uA" width="320" youtube-src-id="L0BwA-o66uA"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">* * *</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Head over to the Countdown to Halloween hub by clicking the badge below, where you can find a list of all the participants taking part this year!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkAU3jNwx8hSrY5xwZgZEYDieo2tCfF046sRD7DfQMWnTdxpfZ6srLxzby28kvN78qmAKBwuAPiztjC4AtzWY5k_wrESyiiAg9UTxGv9ZQN9LrGSqQ-EP60BQBesOfQTTG9jWkjKSpc0j9X9pXRcdTJU1nDpdmHyacury8E3hq2gNs4o0OhgJNSivJ-8o/s1600/IMG_2323.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-26178304215216453622023-10-15T14:29:00.002+01:002023-10-15T14:29:45.952+01:00Specters of the Dam!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P3QCQOTTENINVn64Db3d9vXlxcn8ZCdhyphenhyphenrcdtfoI3og7PHhYXsDXSAY7P8b_m5ALhV5P4T0Q4saAwSQGydlMoIl66rmHWF8d0UnbBemRiYQpXKwehaaZ2ICQnAr3cqYlzn4krPHd_56iGwxnZwX2Kj0JV6cLv7gnwdZGFFRVO8crZrFhkJ3w2TRTW8ob/s519/skele.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="519" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P3QCQOTTENINVn64Db3d9vXlxcn8ZCdhyphenhyphenrcdtfoI3og7PHhYXsDXSAY7P8b_m5ALhV5P4T0Q4saAwSQGydlMoIl66rmHWF8d0UnbBemRiYQpXKwehaaZ2ICQnAr3cqYlzn4krPHd_56iGwxnZwX2Kj0JV6cLv7gnwdZGFFRVO8crZrFhkJ3w2TRTW8ob/s320/skele.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today's trip to the Digital Comic Museum warns against upsetting the ancestors by tearing up graves to build upon. The Specters of the dam are restless and out for vengeance.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This comes from the <i>American Comic Group's </i><b>Skeleton Hand</b>, Issue 5, dated May/June 1953....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(As always, click the pics to go big...)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgidvvVd9oBBj4lqYX5NPSRCcPkMCgYflamsTAU4Mg9lcMZR4fGS9-qTfhj0_MWxJG84jppt-2w8ibbOedE2-xZhUitli7AZIFS_BC_u20C82S6lyDlr1FEWelM69mPmV2LTC4enQV3y_OfK96t_yuIOmYPSMAa0oD41uZJO2RGQYHQK9sHwj-V0sPZNEES/s1666/Skeleton%20Hand%20005%20(ACG%20-%20MayJune%201953)%20011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Xrfy6MQ2KBtrbSRf0FlGANnga_l4lSzAd38ndma1eRp5TOASKC805ojMxU_00pTXCTdh8iM7bssl9a18jKTnF8wzNgxze5DlssG7PDRv7_tKgf_ZQCribu-UHI0amMLNWuVZMsfmiziaBwfiOExJ4u9_Sh4YNWKwF9A8q9dbHo9KFNfr333nJLF97DZF/s1666/Skeleton%20Hand%20005%20(ACG%20-%20MayJune%201953)%20016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1666" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Xrfy6MQ2KBtrbSRf0FlGANnga_l4lSzAd38ndma1eRp5TOASKC805ojMxU_00pTXCTdh8iM7bssl9a18jKTnF8wzNgxze5DlssG7PDRv7_tKgf_ZQCribu-UHI0amMLNWuVZMsfmiziaBwfiOExJ4u9_Sh4YNWKwF9A8q9dbHo9KFNfr333nJLF97DZF/s320/Skeleton%20Hand%20005%20(ACG%20-%20MayJune%201953)%20016.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">Nice to see that in the end, the ancestors still gave a DAM.... (Sorry)</p><p style="text-align: center;">-----------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Be sure to head on over to the Countdown hub by clicking the badge below, where Cryptkeepers like <b><a href="https://spookymoon.com/" target="_blank">Spooky Moon</a> </b>have lots more Halloween-themed stuff to show you!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOD9C6Mjvszh_V8FS9eQgo2bzvHyHuSmYT5hnZTq6mB8uKsI4wjQWnpB6AiJBjclPlDK0qdSKXs78EnbuI-GHs7I3lcSvJxMwWbxF2QC2UeiFMStY8oU6hdR2jyype1RqLQQ20htfvIpGWjmLz8-oZJapiIK-R0EmxJS58AXcKRaI6erv-PhZxGtToIre/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-02.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-69735405419533055992023-10-14T18:37:00.001+01:002023-10-14T18:37:25.968+01:00More Vintage Halloween Decorations!<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSJ1RSaY-b73Ess3qZynsdF8AUCXciBJhkvq-hAYmFbe7FnPJ1TBkQmPwKlUjbZoMzLs-n3jSYbo5YbzlTyKppj6-Cl2WIT58LsgNYyANcvoWfWzKefZvc0turz6HPzF95NATy0Sl4PvIf8dP2nxY4rY3O8a4_WFxCSt9475XSmzr53Qlnp6Lkx4HEQ98/s564/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="564" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWSJ1RSaY-b73Ess3qZynsdF8AUCXciBJhkvq-hAYmFbe7FnPJ1TBkQmPwKlUjbZoMzLs-n3jSYbo5YbzlTyKppj6-Cl2WIT58LsgNYyANcvoWfWzKefZvc0turz6HPzF95NATy0Sl4PvIf8dP2nxY4rY3O8a4_WFxCSt9475XSmzr53Qlnp6Lkx4HEQ98/w400-h300/14.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various Vintage Decorations</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I need to rest my tired hands after all the typing yesterday, so here's a quick Halloween decoration post with some images I found on <a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Pinterest</b></a>......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzGblIaLedSgcoTtewOgJqVzY6Cl0FNPh1WcreM4QKgKok95Hhxk71A1ZePuC_cKDH-BsPqcS_MZPMKMhNbfwt1d8r5S6ECMaNyluTx-z4B7olUlzQkzFw7FYNmDyDY9wknb3eHkNlsW5PXyukXMdbyc88mpTwmRl0yA2P4FVJhyaQU6DtWVtiNYuRPwK/s597/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzGblIaLedSgcoTtewOgJqVzY6Cl0FNPh1WcreM4QKgKok95Hhxk71A1ZePuC_cKDH-BsPqcS_MZPMKMhNbfwt1d8r5S6ECMaNyluTx-z4B7olUlzQkzFw7FYNmDyDY9wknb3eHkNlsW5PXyukXMdbyc88mpTwmRl0yA2P4FVJhyaQU6DtWVtiNYuRPwK/s320/3.jpg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage Cat and Moon design</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWk3dX3GNuyeKfaGUk_H1u6iAx_S5GuUFxGYFP79vT27MXe-bogjEjWiXyL2tx5p6euSGN73L3r-yr-_qYS7SDJ9U5XRwI1n2kItn7pQF316dsEInjBtZ56t9uyRW_xQIrFVU_axE1rnqdLJ05Jx7Lwn5lkPfzvJRstnz0OOKEhTxc6JH-5qFI_jKkKZK/s563/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="563" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWk3dX3GNuyeKfaGUk_H1u6iAx_S5GuUFxGYFP79vT27MXe-bogjEjWiXyL2tx5p6euSGN73L3r-yr-_qYS7SDJ9U5XRwI1n2kItn7pQF316dsEInjBtZ56t9uyRW_xQIrFVU_axE1rnqdLJ05Jx7Lwn5lkPfzvJRstnz0OOKEhTxc6JH-5qFI_jKkKZK/w400-h398/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vintage Cat, 1930s?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVN7vS_pv97BNzqTO_agrHIKCANggtbuRb85GqP5TADmpArLTOYf8whgFiObvd-sbuBC4AJ-QZ_fJUpxF__y46Z4MMdbwDEjelE83qSxFw2devYHfL82bfKNreaYi7KNigpXnXDtSeFu-xzdC-wBxyHL0zgPN7VVHDsDz2LgMs85TWWddl67HH-vqQPeKJ/s456/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVN7vS_pv97BNzqTO_agrHIKCANggtbuRb85GqP5TADmpArLTOYf8whgFiObvd-sbuBC4AJ-QZ_fJUpxF__y46Z4MMdbwDEjelE83qSxFw2devYHfL82bfKNreaYi7KNigpXnXDtSeFu-xzdC-wBxyHL0zgPN7VVHDsDz2LgMs85TWWddl67HH-vqQPeKJ/w264-h400/10.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antique Witch riding a Black Cat</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6r1AURjcdl9SMPzQfAV15aD1tQmdMWUp9SAIj1rCZXkFieMvTx3-c1lYSSWHBNGm2FDULNiYhdnYLi1c1YWE3rOxk7iZPdSY-poL1Uy9UqoBYzJ3d_M5DRR8PbiBdGmrwoXdLM_Elon-_QCyQiHDUsI1uDMHAqADLZRtX-GYJq6unU_4k7ylyxBGQrwPq/s922/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6r1AURjcdl9SMPzQfAV15aD1tQmdMWUp9SAIj1rCZXkFieMvTx3-c1lYSSWHBNGm2FDULNiYhdnYLi1c1YWE3rOxk7iZPdSY-poL1Uy9UqoBYzJ3d_M5DRR8PbiBdGmrwoXdLM_Elon-_QCyQiHDUsI1uDMHAqADLZRtX-GYJq6unU_4k7ylyxBGQrwPq/w245-h400/2.jpg" width="245" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various Vintage Decorations</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaD3tQbF9lwWtKdQrM57CqhymcOCYzer_tGp1tQbj5ujCnVOxV5eEWnXvHs1LAchs8pzG43b7-6nV-ydghdpdxOu1gy2pDkRJ-DoyafQJU1cwn39ZvCYOsNynKeoOTBabyd8N7khRnP1HL_a18ets-IVA1FEeoVuf4qNV2LqUfI0PSvM3tpEayM2eO1nfM/s564/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="564" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaD3tQbF9lwWtKdQrM57CqhymcOCYzer_tGp1tQbj5ujCnVOxV5eEWnXvHs1LAchs8pzG43b7-6nV-ydghdpdxOu1gy2pDkRJ-DoyafQJU1cwn39ZvCYOsNynKeoOTBabyd8N7khRnP1HL_a18ets-IVA1FEeoVuf4qNV2LqUfI0PSvM3tpEayM2eO1nfM/w400-h300/13.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Cat with Pumpkin, Rosbro</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9RLUzAdcNxbar5CiOrHFjA8azagLsRwWz8uLMV2dDV20V7ncW0tOLakyLzOLB887mUgv1YBKoDwYq3peCgTbwebMdy-USB_weYKm1YQT0f2eTAjGmXRn6wZ9yXvOUA2PWDzS8120Q-_BJ9CrNu3_Dbq2PtLBxJoA7HEry_3nFicCOb2FVDmPLikwbcw5/s665/18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9RLUzAdcNxbar5CiOrHFjA8azagLsRwWz8uLMV2dDV20V7ncW0tOLakyLzOLB887mUgv1YBKoDwYq3peCgTbwebMdy-USB_weYKm1YQT0f2eTAjGmXRn6wZ9yXvOUA2PWDzS8120Q-_BJ9CrNu3_Dbq2PtLBxJoA7HEry_3nFicCOb2FVDmPLikwbcw5/w339-h400/18.jpg" width="339" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Stickers, 1990s)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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This was very evident Friday as the people fought off the "jinx" of the day which was not only Friday, but also the 13th of the month, which makes two superstitions grow where only one grew before.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Now, if you are a bootlegger and your customer who has been buying perfectly good benzine mixed with a little wood alcohol for over a year, and he refused to buy Friday, you know he is superstitious. He might drink on the thirteenth of the month, and Friday may have no special meaning to him as far as bad luck is concerned, but when it is"Friday the thirteenth," it is too much.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI0k0AOZS9xsdI2WyX_Tcn7iQr3K14QstR6YVVqJDgEkKXJdyjTg8HSzdwRs4RrF8fZyGbGox214x3eyIoAe2KaZtL2t_FKKP_XpClOO22xOvd32FX2AqprOhFHodaigSxTv_nuuK6qrkPQEcGScmeba444dhR3Xtk7OIfDRZW13xKFi1bRNZVxvc_mwC/s581/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="581" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI0k0AOZS9xsdI2WyX_Tcn7iQr3K14QstR6YVVqJDgEkKXJdyjTg8HSzdwRs4RrF8fZyGbGox214x3eyIoAe2KaZtL2t_FKKP_XpClOO22xOvd32FX2AqprOhFHodaigSxTv_nuuK6qrkPQEcGScmeba444dhR3Xtk7OIfDRZW13xKFi1bRNZVxvc_mwC/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Reports have it that a man strutting along N. Main St, Friday noon stopped suddenly and reaching for a five-dollar bill on the sidewalk was bragging about his "Friday the thirteenth" luck, when he was "crowned" by a falling paint can.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYipmXNm5S80vZ4ftj3u8X0o_GF8dEQfNrMaZ9lnJhE38nwSwT2dpGnJERSEJePiMp9Mkcf0eVK1pFIzOdVCon2dfH3XVMErF0nzYMuW0iD3kEyzacxGjyTwDcp_LchtuWWIpTqEWJ6e3iTJTmgeHDeRYsrQYqucl7S2GA5pZfT9zjrb2s_Z-_4Ze1QPEG/s594/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="594" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYipmXNm5S80vZ4ftj3u8X0o_GF8dEQfNrMaZ9lnJhE38nwSwT2dpGnJERSEJePiMp9Mkcf0eVK1pFIzOdVCon2dfH3XVMErF0nzYMuW0iD3kEyzacxGjyTwDcp_LchtuWWIpTqEWJ6e3iTJTmgeHDeRYsrQYqucl7S2GA5pZfT9zjrb2s_Z-_4Ze1QPEG/s320/2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">That old gag about the visiting mother-in-law would not go so good if it were not for the usual surroundings. But here is the dope right from the old earthstone. Six months of peace and quiet had come to a certain residence of Dayton View. His mother-in-law had contented herself in writing "wifey" and had not visited them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The son-in-law was, and still is, very superstitious. He remained home from work Friday, because he was afraid to venture out on such an unlucky day. And then did the bad luck find him. </p><p style="text-align: center;">It certainly did. "Wifey" got a letter in the morning mail from mother with the glad tidings that she was coming in a few days for a visit.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVsocRR-fQZW1rT5bBtOyl9e6zehgD-Mb6-Pg6VqzBahqz4zTVEpC7Xyf2xBwQ-aO7aFBzvAW3I2hPYskzkD_9Spld2E5ofKNwnti4VtgD_N9UEaJh-UmNyG41-AyZHtDVkv8drAsJkOGhRVOWIC_w9Mtbg-FXjz8q0f22hIuvN01VTTllreuZOhH3Bcd/s581/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="581" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWVsocRR-fQZW1rT5bBtOyl9e6zehgD-Mb6-Pg6VqzBahqz4zTVEpC7Xyf2xBwQ-aO7aFBzvAW3I2hPYskzkD_9Spld2E5ofKNwnti4VtgD_N9UEaJh-UmNyG41-AyZHtDVkv8drAsJkOGhRVOWIC_w9Mtbg-FXjz8q0f22hIuvN01VTTllreuZOhH3Bcd/s320/3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Then there is the groom who found himself at the alter with his blushing bride only to recall the date. But he was game and being a student of history recalled the fact that this grand old country owes much to the thirteenth of the month and to Friday.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Here are some of the facts he uncovered.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Gen John Pershing was born on Friday, the13th.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The great American victory at St. Mihiel in the World War was won on Friday the 13th.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The cornerstone of the White House was laid on this day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It was on June 13th that France decided to come to the aid of America in the Revolutionary War.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwiUdgsSIEZCQAAGs4po2UopAuXlNCzIsrNCtj9RjbjxFOV5QVRgnc3q6QG_-G_CWS53zxwPFjfRKje894XaYtQE9bx-VaTDOz80asjgXOGqOhEZnm4i62c0V4p62_NEw4iviSefqglhr3qRwdEsd4PHZNYBbpXPIXgMazu_vdTxAj0vWScsrHh4NA6WS/s599/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="599" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwiUdgsSIEZCQAAGs4po2UopAuXlNCzIsrNCtj9RjbjxFOV5QVRgnc3q6QG_-G_CWS53zxwPFjfRKje894XaYtQE9bx-VaTDOz80asjgXOGqOhEZnm4i62c0V4p62_NEw4iviSefqglhr3qRwdEsd4PHZNYBbpXPIXgMazu_vdTxAj0vWScsrHh4NA6WS/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Then the number 13 figures much in the history of the United States for the original American flag had 13 stripes for the same number of original colonies, there are 13 leters in our national motto, "E Pluribus Unum" and the eagle which appears in the escutcheon of the country's great seal has 13 feathers in each wing. Friday is also a notable day for the United States for it was the day Cornwallis surrendered and the declaration of Independence was introduced on that day. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Going back into biblical history, this bridegroom who found himself at the altar, Friday the 13th, found that the superstition of the number 13 was funded on the fact that the word in Hebrew meant the same as the word death.</p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;">Questioning various Daytonians on how they prepared to beat the Friday the 13th "jink" that was supposed to hold sway during the day, brought out the fact that all do not believe in the superstition. Several declared that Friday was always their lucky day and that 13 represented a lucky number for them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Assistant Postmaster Henry Pleasant said that he was more or less neutral on the subject, but that he thought it best to be prepared so he looked up "Jim" Brown, coloured janitor of the federal building, to get a lucky "rabbit foot" to carry around during the day. What was his surprise to find that Jim was figuring Friday to be his lucky day. Jim was born on Friday the 12th, during the afternoon, and it was raining, too, and friday the 13th has always been his lucky day, Jim said. So Jim had left his "rabbit foot" at home.</p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;">Joseph Dowling also spoke in defense of the day. Dowling said that his wedding date had been set on a Friday and when he mentioned the unlucky angle of the day to the late Archbishop Purcell, who was to perform the ceremony, the archbishop said that it would bring good luck to the couple.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Dowling says the good luck did come and now he delights on taking a chance on the second to last day in the week.</p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;">Among those who figure the day unlucky as attested by W. L. Der, proprietor of the Y.M.C.A. barber shop. Derr reports that 10 men and three women mounted his chair Friday and warned him to be careful with the razor and shears for they expected much bad luck because of the combination of unlucky date and day.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From The Winnipeg Tribune, Friday 13th March, 1936.....</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Friday the 13th Unlucky?</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>"Poof," says Calendar Man</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Moses B. Cotsworth Fights Desperately Against "Dismal Notion"</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Today is Friday the thirteenth. "So what?" says Moses B. Cotsworth, the eminent calendar reformer, writing all the way from Regent Street in London.</p><p style="text-align: center;">More in sorrow than in anger, he appeals to newspapers to drop their "misleading Friday the 13th notes" which perpetuate the "dismal notion" that the day is specially unlucky.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There is nothing in it, says Mr. Cotsworth. To prove his point, he refers to Dec. 13th, 1935, which happened to fall on a Friday. For many it was a pay day. Many got their Christmas saving club money on that day. Ships sailed, travellers travelled, and the world went serenely on with its Christmas Shopping.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmiNpW5yX-tdWYNSvslYv0biRq57pBJSO7X5gkfHJEyQyuCPngXYyTOzzmDv2rdicfnycD4pTB97EmeZIV5vTYNtjm9tfLqICrjo8LitHtJXas17pOYwHhs4cLLFs_QW_pJ6vwqhiMsyp2qoi3LOQQoKUcnr7RLT_dr73Lv9KCCaI2IK5Glk40D_5FgmrV/s909/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="553" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmiNpW5yX-tdWYNSvslYv0biRq57pBJSO7X5gkfHJEyQyuCPngXYyTOzzmDv2rdicfnycD4pTB97EmeZIV5vTYNtjm9tfLqICrjo8LitHtJXas17pOYwHhs4cLLFs_QW_pJ6vwqhiMsyp2qoi3LOQQoKUcnr7RLT_dr73Lv9KCCaI2IK5Glk40D_5FgmrV/w244-h400/5.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">If Mr. Cotsworth is to be believed, "Neither the day of the week nor its monthly date have any influence on 'unlucky' happenings." Summoning up his vast knowledge of the calendar for further proof, Mr. Cotsworth adds that Friday the 13th is more common than other day-and-date combinations. Friday the 13th recurs 688 times in each 400 years. The next most frequent combination is Sunday the 13th and Wednesday the 13th. Even if the calendar is changed to the perpetual brand he advocates, Friday the 13th ill always be the most frequent.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Then Mr. Cotsworth, warming up to his subject, makes so bold as to say that "no day of the week is 'unlucky.'" A calendar reformer apparently has no Blue Mondays.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Whatever the dire meaning of Friday the 13th, it passed uneventfully in Winnipeg. But in London, delegates trying to unravel the mess in Europe caused by Hitler's march into the Rhineland had their fingers crossed.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From The Victoria Daily Times, dated Friday 13th May, 1938...</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Friday the 13th Unlucky? Myth!</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Monkey Bites Boy, Otherwise Jinx Day Seems Passing Quietly Here</span></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Except for one young Victorian today might just as well have been Friday the 14th, or Thursday the 13th as far as this city is concerned. Up to the time this paper went to press the traditionally explosive combination of Friday and the 13th seemed to be fizzling out like a wet firecracker.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Around the rest of the world the story seemed to be much the same. Two cabinets resigned - in Belgium and in Hungary - but European cabinet collapses are a dime a dozen these days anyway. Five Polish fliers cocked a figurative snoot at the calendar and started off on the first leg ofa flight from Los Angeles to Warsaw by way of the South Atlantic. But perhaps the legend does not apply to Poles.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><b>JINXED BY MONKEY</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>The one Victorian for whom the day turned out unlucky was 15-year-old Leslie Warden of 233 Langford Street. Young Leslie has a pet monkey. Today young Leslie is in the Jubilee Hospital. </span>The pet monkey chose the morning of Friday the 13th to bite his master.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Perhaps the city's lack of bad luck has something to do with the lotus-eating quality of the place. Perhaps Victorians, looking at the sunshine and saying "Tomorrow is also a day," did not get the jitters and drive their cars into lamp-posts or burn themselves on their electric irons.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>THIRTEEN AT TABLE</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Members of the Victoria Real Estate Board looked superstition right in the eyeat their regular luncheon in Spencer's dining room. There were exactly thirteen present.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>UNBELIEVING TACOMANS</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">By way of disproof of the Friday the 13th legend, the Associated Press brings the story of the Schmidt family of Tacoma. In 1888, they - John Schmidt and his bride-to-be - flew in the face of tradition and were married on May 13th.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Today they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and reported no more bad luck than anybody else. Three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild agreed the Schmidt marriage was successful.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>LEARNED TREATISE</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">From Washington, D.C., also by way of the Associated Press, comes a learned treatise on the subject of the combination of Friday and 13. After considerable research Eddy Gilmore of the AP Staff lists some of the things which should and should not be done on this day.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You should :</p><p style="text-align: center;">Let a wagon of loose hay pass you. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Tip your hat to bob-eared dogs.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Wink at solid white horses.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Whistle as you pass a graveyard.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Leave your hat on in elevators.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">You should not : </p><p style="text-align: center;">Pick up safety pins in the street.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Eat bananas with catsup.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Stir your coffee with your knife.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Open an umbrella in the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Take a rake through the living room.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. Gilmore looked into the question of why Friday the 13th is considered unlucky by so many. He found the Library of the United States Congress - which has a staggering amount of information on the subject - says two ladies have had a lot to do with the belief. They are the goddess Freya and Mrs. Isaac Harvey of Wilmington, Del.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Legend has it that Freya picked Friday as her festive day and believed everybody should sit around and think about her. She put the evil eye on those who didn't.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Harvey helped the superstition along in early America, although she probably never heard of Freya. She had dreams. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Her husband Isaac laid the keel of a brig on Friday. She told him it was unlucky, but he even named the ship Friday and launched her on Friday the 13th.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Two Fridays later the vessel sank, and everybody in colonnial America, except Isacc, nodded and said that Friday the 13th was really unlucky. Isaac was lucky, however - he didn't go with the vessel.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>LAST TIME UNLUCKY</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The last time Friday fell on the 13th of the month was last August. The Times of that date had two fairly innocuous looking headlines in the main spots of its front page.</p><p style="text-align: center;">One read "Polar Plane's Arrival Awaited at Fairbanks, Alaska" and the other "Shanghai Fight Spreads on Wide Front."</p><p style="text-align: center;">The next day the Russian polar fliers were reported missing. they had not been heard from on Friday, August 13. They have not been heard from since.</p><p style="text-align: center;">In Shanghai, it was learned the next day, two bombs were jarred loose by anti-aircraft fire from Chinese planes. They fell in the middle of the most crowded parts of Shanghai at the busiest moment of the day. The result - the worst carnage that has ever been wrought by air bombs - it has been pictured in every newspaper and every illustrated magazine in the world.</p><p style="text-align: center;">At midnight tonight superstitious Victorians can heave a long sigh of relief. Friday does not fall again on the 13th until next January.</p><p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p><p style="text-align: center;">REVELSTOKE (CP) - Friday the 13th was lucky, and unlucky, for Constable Wing of the British Columbia police. His car was struck by a freight train and dragged 125 feet. They jacked up the freight car to retrieve the demolished car. They dragged out Wing - only bruised</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From the Greenville News, dated Friday 13th February 1959....</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>If Friday Frightens You, Count 13 And Pray - It's Here</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">By CHARLES HURST</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>If you're superstitious you can work up a good case of the screaming meemies this week since the first of this year's three Friday the 13ths occurs today.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Remember that anything that's unlucky on any old, plain garden-variety day is doubled in spades for bad luck on a Friday the 13th. After it;s over maybe you'll wish you had "stood in bed."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>A lot of people think that 13 is their lucky number but when it's combined with a Friday it's a different story. Thirteen is unlucky, so superstition has it, and Friday is a dame of ill portent, disaster and general cussedness in her own right.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Just to cheer you up a little, research shows that back in ancient times Friday was known as "Hangman's Day." The custom in old Merrie England way back yonder was to hold all the executions on a Friday, hence the name.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>According to the same research, Mohammedans believe that it was on a Friday when Adam was created, when he entered paradise and when he was expelled from Paradise. Adam's menfolk haven't had much luck since. The name Friday, by the way, derives from the Anglo-Saxon Frigeday - or the day of Friga, who was the godess of love. She must have been a femme fatale.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Here are some of the things you positively mustn't do on any day and especially on a Friday the 13th unless you wish to wander around chewing your tongue ever after : </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't walk under a ladder - especially if there's a painter on top of it, (Ever try to get paint out of your clothes?)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't open an umbrella in the house. One good reason for that is, if you're inside you don't need an umbrella.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't break a mirror - that's seven years bad luck and you'd have to pay for the mirror too.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqSZWkdzBUAtsLSy2yZF5iTKnjuDTu_5BJR08pOAwLwtBr2-x8JFXH2DPjpISdKYMFSUxPYIPEDNRMUg59KPs_btQKKRpN48x0WgypO-vyqxxc2ryXLJAHpllGbh2UkBkSMK9drfJ7UF33HLzci0XLM7OOm6pVuLnhu8WjuN55MPafLF70zLqtyDnq6L8/s2930/breaking%20the%20supe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2120" data-original-width="2930" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqSZWkdzBUAtsLSy2yZF5iTKnjuDTu_5BJR08pOAwLwtBr2-x8JFXH2DPjpISdKYMFSUxPYIPEDNRMUg59KPs_btQKKRpN48x0WgypO-vyqxxc2ryXLJAHpllGbh2UkBkSMK9drfJ7UF33HLzci0XLM7OOm6pVuLnhu8WjuN55MPafLF70zLqtyDnq6L8/w400-h290/breaking%20the%20supe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't lie down on a bed fully dressed. Moms don't look kindly on heel marks on clean bed-spreads.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't let a black cat cross your path. Why? Why, EVERYONE knows that's unlucky!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't sleep in the moonlight ; it will affect your mind and you'd probably get thrown in the clink if a cop found you that way.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't light three cigarettes from the same match - burned fingers are painful.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't accept two dollar bills, they're real unlucky. (All who want to get rid of unlucky two dollar bills please leave at this office.)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't get your hair cut during a new moon. (It's a good idea to stay out of clip joints anytime.) Fortunately there's no new moon scheduled this Friday the 13th, so get your hair cut.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Other unlucky things or something, are 13 at a table and a 13th floor. Many of the large office buildings and the hotels of the nation skip the 13th floor entirely, going from the 12th to the 14th just like that.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>Don't take the last piece of bread from the bread plate or you'll never get married. (THAT'S unlucky?)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">There are loads of other things that are unlucky and perhaps you have your own, so beware Friday the 13th.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There are many ideas of how all this superstition about Friday and the 13th originated. Some trace it back to the fact that Judas was the 13th disciple at the table and others to the fact that there used to be 13 steps to the gallows. There's nothing to these superstitions, of course, and sensible people pay them no mind - Hey' Who let that black cat in the office?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>From The Des Moines Register, dated Tuesday 17th February, 1970....</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPwIXi4hAabXzGYPfwXN83AdbwlD3HvZgFOrWeGyKkMc7Wa2GuIc1czBWcFSsTV_LrBut7OHcFIqGP5JoAoGx1xxy_vIzZzYaQOB2lTMDA0tniHwtEQ3QAQdA3MstQeAfxIZ4Jzj68wbeuNQA2UISxh60P5gbH0CxJ8n7XHDxcvtwi_XMKHbBfAqHfmnY/s2324/wdyt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2324" data-original-width="1652" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPwIXi4hAabXzGYPfwXN83AdbwlD3HvZgFOrWeGyKkMc7Wa2GuIc1czBWcFSsTV_LrBut7OHcFIqGP5JoAoGx1xxy_vIzZzYaQOB2lTMDA0tniHwtEQ3QAQdA3MstQeAfxIZ4Jzj68wbeuNQA2UISxh60P5gbH0CxJ8n7XHDxcvtwi_XMKHbBfAqHfmnY/w284-h400/wdyt.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;">-------------------------</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">So we have our answer....Nothing was really different at all! Still the same mix of those who are superstitious and those who aren't, although it has always seemed to lean less to the latter...</p><p style="text-align: center;"> The only bad luck I've had so far (touch wood) is that I've given myself a sore arm and hand with all the typing, so I'm off to rest for a bit! In the meantime, you know what to do....go check out the other Cryptkeepers like <b><a href="https://cheerswithchelsea.com/" target="_blank">Cheers With Chelsea</a> </b>are up to by clicking the badge below! And watch out for black cats, ladders, mirrors, etc.......</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://countdowntohalloween.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4a8WK8GnVGbNe-R9rbghXp_XLSRDl4azGXH41fOG2U86QZhwFlqXqFeayZ-FP9xFJBxJs8aPNp_xnrUVGB-xpXaYkEc9BhwR3fYwKAMLLPSnkyK323mhLvy89YAt-MRE3TS8DbB-sgwsb_gg0y3_hMWTKNcgAvUU3VDWHK-IHHv54RY69KXURXcW9qhjH/s1600/CtH2023-Badge-01.png" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Deadpan Flookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07071618440865533136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025237254916249648.post-57012339221772714062023-10-12T22:43:00.001+01:002023-10-12T22:47:01.008+01:00Kids' Creations from Karloff's Comics!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFWpMUwvazls6nWSgMU1LXagiCZpu0jJU1bHVrUc-VJeBofeGsmdX5Dg5g66VCOW1oVWXqeCUsd2E4MDi5hgRbioFBaHBb7XJ-cAPJGE_aK035nug5GWVQRg4Sq-RNU57Pi09puX8U2s2OGLfmaUpffO9aP1dXOK6hYUkbEaPOl_HFhpJRffIo7E0bHtEB/s240/boris%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="240" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFWpMUwvazls6nWSgMU1LXagiCZpu0jJU1bHVrUc-VJeBofeGsmdX5Dg5g66VCOW1oVWXqeCUsd2E4MDi5hgRbioFBaHBb7XJ-cAPJGE_aK035nug5GWVQRg4Sq-RNU57Pi09puX8U2s2OGLfmaUpffO9aP1dXOK6hYUkbEaPOl_HFhpJRffIo7E0bHtEB/w400-h342/boris%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the early sixties, to the late seventies, Gold Key comics had a title called<b> "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery," </b>a horror anthology featuring different tales of horror and terror every issue, with Karloff in a Cryptkeeper-type horror host role at the start and end of each strip...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKiMBS9ZZD8i9tWfrFxUIqz7K-Px_AtnSw2DtsjSaJfIhRnSiVTOP71-waOCZkXmNv3saHLxjfavo-KfOQzgvks9iyGyBbTyP5MqoHjAQFljFgASyMMNMe-MqAcxpwh1GbTQNwhQ3_YD4-4AUbWWj-RqZbcy8xKtFEFkFCzAPus1yNWxjk-boHBDItOhFu/s267/karloff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKiMBS9ZZD8i9tWfrFxUIqz7K-Px_AtnSw2DtsjSaJfIhRnSiVTOP71-waOCZkXmNv3saHLxjfavo-KfOQzgvks9iyGyBbTyP5MqoHjAQFljFgASyMMNMe-MqAcxpwh1GbTQNwhQ3_YD4-4AUbWWj-RqZbcy8xKtFEFkFCzAPus1yNWxjk-boHBDItOhFu/w283-h400/karloff.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While I would love to show you some of these tales, I believe they're still under copyright, so to be on the safe side I've never bothered to post anything from the comic before...However, while looking through scans today, I discovered something that I had to risk sharing with you...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOaSHftKWFtlpGDg1eElpumQxZUglVe-QNlKRoNXWrLw0BVUZ0oUZTjhsHcHVUKF85i1SW26aIKtZ0vn9oHq37aEtoBbE-o1jCdfxEURmuOj-nyqm8_zjrwpmFGDv1ayF4-qSfqWzxcXBAztRdRM4OwgTrMyAHgVUEJxi2UGgWEt7VKeUtlXcg4PGUx4pi/s1024/bk.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="726" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOaSHftKWFtlpGDg1eElpumQxZUglVe-QNlKRoNXWrLw0BVUZ0oUZTjhsHcHVUKF85i1SW26aIKtZ0vn9oHq37aEtoBbE-o1jCdfxEURmuOj-nyqm8_zjrwpmFGDv1ayF4-qSfqWzxcXBAztRdRM4OwgTrMyAHgVUEJxi2UGgWEt7VKeUtlXcg4PGUx4pi/w284-h400/bk.png" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Click the pics to enlarge them!)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Gold Key Club put out a request in one of the issues for reader-submitted monster designs, with, as you can see above, a few ideas of their own to give kids some inspiration! (The sponge-footed Drought Monster is my fave from that lot!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEi1O6v6qQwqYxGaEDkjWBrrPTT4ymIEqfkjZGlXr308UFX-woghTGADPSYij7MyD3Wp7_U8eTygHa8LuV_U5RxwEkupjW9cHuLKoHSC16_8ZI6ofrcGe866wQIPZokHDN2BFUKobFcLtTzdN7NxgbWmz6YilmjVC-y5VLMfNNulgpnl9vM4_ZOP6xEf9c/s1028/bk1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="723" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEi1O6v6qQwqYxGaEDkjWBrrPTT4ymIEqfkjZGlXr308UFX-woghTGADPSYij7MyD3Wp7_U8eTygHa8LuV_U5RxwEkupjW9cHuLKoHSC16_8ZI6ofrcGe866wQIPZokHDN2BFUKobFcLtTzdN7NxgbWmz6YilmjVC-y5VLMfNNulgpnl9vM4_ZOP6xEf9c/w281-h400/bk1.png" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">For the next couple of issues, while they waited for the readers pictures to come in, they ran another couple of sets of freakish creations. The Suction Monster is probably the best from the above bunch....</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1AifY4LF862Y9aLwWPSQ8miGx6cpoc9ejFkUd6kiepkY2Brg3JfujVcrM_zxbJ4nSDiLkdreTBXZvmZEahyphenhyphenHoQzDYUpzXKlaIB2HEQo51z6G_VMzBbW8bsG4qY2cYfieGN5dDvY0qcYTa_YCAb0Mmu5BXIWWu526WHZ1Tb5H5qx618ZDS757E2S1xTN2p/s679/bk2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="626" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1AifY4LF862Y9aLwWPSQ8miGx6cpoc9ejFkUd6kiepkY2Brg3JfujVcrM_zxbJ4nSDiLkdreTBXZvmZEahyphenhyphenHoQzDYUpzXKlaIB2HEQo51z6G_VMzBbW8bsG4qY2cYfieGN5dDvY0qcYTa_YCAb0Mmu5BXIWWu526WHZ1Tb5H5qx618ZDS757E2S1xTN2p/w369-h400/bk2.png" width="369" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The Six-Armed Crocky-Dial only exists to pun, and I have to admire him for that, but the fact there's another creature who is sustained by gulping down noises, and uses manhole covers as tiddlywinks to satiate that hunger, I find particulary inspired... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the next issue there was a page with five of the first reader creations, and then one other page with another five...and that was it! Looking through the other issues I couldn't find any other reader submitted drawings of monsters! Whether they weren't receiving any, or whether (as seems to be the case) they decided to go for some more wholesome drawings of natural animals instead of wildly imagined creatures of doom, there were apparently no more that I can find in the issues I have access to...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But here, in all their splendour, are the ones that were submitted...seperated by me so I can post my favourites last...the strange beasts that emerged from 1960's American kids' heads!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHrwZh_7E53gr35Ztrg8PM1s1eHF-VnK1QxgovA-j8uoGbE776TZqzTaS3OJcCzGd35dCtXUO8WYAulxNhhZN7CmOsu0yHBwlA8y-Bh5_Q_a_XWwrt7nifwdAJtKVUEIPWcNxPZ0PpmKyhMMJ6GAT7Jb3RG-YDHO6DKOz13XnUvN3_D3FSFh1SvbhVuhg/s471/Giant-Eye%20Monstrosity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="232" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHrwZh_7E53gr35Ztrg8PM1s1eHF-VnK1QxgovA-j8uoGbE776TZqzTaS3OJcCzGd35dCtXUO8WYAulxNhhZN7CmOsu0yHBwlA8y-Bh5_Q_a_XWwrt7nifwdAJtKVUEIPWcNxPZ0PpmKyhMMJ6GAT7Jb3RG-YDHO6DKOz13XnUvN3_D3FSFh1SvbhVuhg/w198-h400/Giant-Eye%20Monstrosity.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Giant - Eye Monstrosity. It's eye doesn't look that giant compared to the rest of it to me!? Or does it have a bigger one round the other side? Or is it just giant to us, as the creature is huge? I need answers, dammit....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtO3qpXTk3hbJi9OELAQmex5F_uChtUCgv_OEkCDURLdh3drowoJr2IoNzVFv6OPYohaLmjMZblqy00SAtszkRez_RSF55mfv2uHi0p2HAdPMpV55Jbv0mLfh_Cwm0qs5A7E9XYDAgOhpAbu4Rk2KZmiKrTDAEjYfwul7V2SY6mxfP-Aygq3lm836OZY9b/s458/Good%20Little%20Boy%20Monster.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtO3qpXTk3hbJi9OELAQmex5F_uChtUCgv_OEkCDURLdh3drowoJr2IoNzVFv6OPYohaLmjMZblqy00SAtszkRez_RSF55mfv2uHi0p2HAdPMpV55Jbv0mLfh_Cwm0qs5A7E9XYDAgOhpAbu4Rk2KZmiKrTDAEjYfwul7V2SY6mxfP-Aygq3lm836OZY9b/w194-h400/Good%20Little%20Boy%20Monster.jpg" width="194" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />What's going on with this monster? What's that name all about? Is he a good little boy because he eats the monsters who eat people to save other people? Or is he secretly eating those monsters because the ones that eat humans taste better? Again, I need answers....<br /> <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Zpd59mCsdQjYnLC6BDpqkXhW5bczU_I0FpUbieXoT6r9vmccQpr7-61nxp2Y7rOPUfTyNrBzvh6M_wvMwLQXm-liHH8c4uf7FVskyei-x04GY09C1R_-Jz_TOoL7wyq4mIZTSCOvpPqGTI66PmPuLPrw_RxC_tMxynGdQG47glfWUudViQ_ghrEITYSJ/s453/Laser%20Beam%20Monster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Zpd59mCsdQjYnLC6BDpqkXhW5bczU_I0FpUbieXoT6r9vmccQpr7-61nxp2Y7rOPUfTyNrBzvh6M_wvMwLQXm-liHH8c4uf7FVskyei-x04GY09C1R_-Jz_TOoL7wyq4mIZTSCOvpPqGTI66PmPuLPrw_RxC_tMxynGdQG47glfWUudViQ_ghrEITYSJ/w188-h400/Laser%20Beam%20Monster.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This Godzilla-type monster is pretty straight-forward! Maybe a bit lacking in originality, but seems like an effective creature!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U1YuYTmOO6UkYiYCjeSDDOWi1N_Vro_A8s04Schh_sDWFNCwiE8DY7vw5BFPxkPFu-xq-x6Cn98xk0K9rXmqje2ch10UH2PAFvgeXOdYYmZ8nQWysWB7NMZMMA1zFecHsZe2hHJNyHbJBT_J6kruRdYpnVV3hSxQhb0Sl9-SURiy1SI0YW5DbRB9iGTA/s464/Monster%20Man.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="226" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U1YuYTmOO6UkYiYCjeSDDOWi1N_Vro_A8s04Schh_sDWFNCwiE8DY7vw5BFPxkPFu-xq-x6Cn98xk0K9rXmqje2ch10UH2PAFvgeXOdYYmZ8nQWysWB7NMZMMA1zFecHsZe2hHJNyHbJBT_J6kruRdYpnVV3hSxQhb0Sl9-SURiy1SI0YW5DbRB9iGTA/w195-h400/Monster%20Man.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Monster Man bites people on the ankle? So he must be pretty small...but then no, that isn't a doll is it? its a person, which means he's picking people up and then chomping their ankles with his nasty fangs! This is worse than I first assumed....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLPZ5jrJ5_R0m3tQ_1W661kqGoBBuuPJVQuafVNdTkoanhSN3J40huf3kH9VmPbL5hKJZp5sg8omW5CiUlmDDZ9qC2BCdTAD42TJ-1BKC7fHG7hR7OkNHSl60xoUuiTA-9CO-9ioGmsIyCUtV3y2PgyoRI8BuXC7PoAtwYUPoZxlaEXUMs2dOLGM2nNI0/s463/The%20Blob%20Beast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLPZ5jrJ5_R0m3tQ_1W661kqGoBBuuPJVQuafVNdTkoanhSN3J40huf3kH9VmPbL5hKJZp5sg8omW5CiUlmDDZ9qC2BCdTAD42TJ-1BKC7fHG7hR7OkNHSl60xoUuiTA-9CO-9ioGmsIyCUtV3y2PgyoRI8BuXC7PoAtwYUPoZxlaEXUMs2dOLGM2nNI0/w191-h400/The%20Blob%20Beast.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Blob Beast changes shape to get his victims, so is this even what he looks like? Is this his default mode, or just one of many forms? I guess we'll never know unless we see him....but then, if it isn't we might be already sitting beside him! HE CAN BE ANYTHING! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ARRGH!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Zsmssbc3aCgYujXD8OyBdYx9_1fmdayYzc8qGtevWaSLT8VK3q9GZ2MY9S4VMBN6T82J8r6ma9bc0Nw2x5B3ezuvlKoC9ItG0KFgt5irm9z5KF41PlZ6l2eAe6J3_WBBTzUWUrnVOcnGF9UxH5Ri2RBaLbMpqoBhYWMaTR5U6B0VXaewvzS_28K47QNA/s461/The%20Green%20Devil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="235" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Zsmssbc3aCgYujXD8OyBdYx9_1fmdayYzc8qGtevWaSLT8VK3q9GZ2MY9S4VMBN6T82J8r6ma9bc0Nw2x5B3ezuvlKoC9ItG0KFgt5irm9z5KF41PlZ6l2eAe6J3_WBBTzUWUrnVOcnGF9UxH5Ri2RBaLbMpqoBhYWMaTR5U6B0VXaewvzS_28K47QNA/w204-h400/The%20Green%20Devil.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Clearly, someone has already shot the Green Devil with an arrow, which has done nothing to stop him. In fact he seems to be using it as a fashion accesory now. A truly terrifying creature....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIF1Bz0BUL3-hvwcUQ_DL2-_h_iwwl-5NoYq40nHLDMZu1tvmmDqtIbKquNBAP_SZithKYdtUemepGWB3a7xUekuDSrjwEaCGx2kSVLJ7d_WsUf0KIQntOPV3MAV7FwXOUzh-lyMi119QJHUzdIRiiDtSKffc7nl3nIo_8HQQW4jPVCPEwOiHv8nQ_ao5/s470/The%20Mad%20Wrecker.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMIF1Bz0BUL3-hvwcUQ_DL2-_h_iwwl-5NoYq40nHLDMZu1tvmmDqtIbKquNBAP_SZithKYdtUemepGWB3a7xUekuDSrjwEaCGx2kSVLJ7d_WsUf0KIQntOPV3MAV7FwXOUzh-lyMi119QJHUzdIRiiDtSKffc7nl3nIo_8HQQW4jPVCPEwOiHv8nQ_ao5/w206-h400/The%20Mad%20Wrecker.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These last four are my faves....above you can see The Mad Wrecker, who demolishes everything in sight, while succumbing to geek fashion! Look at those glasses! And that wonderful sixties hat! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV84fDjm9WGwF1px08m2cJD3aAWpG6c6lv7E4o4NAQWIlQBCAwDLO-6BMgC8_76k2reOdQm5RbcbY5O8jmQHOblhuow-YY-uWbecFG8UStLXyI9wLUCoLnh3QZCaTu6W2tYqfswhHEXqjf-oJUcdlkSH_-3OVlxRMBvA_ZcrV4VPaoYR80wteiDuwGh0RS/s457/The%20Melter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="222" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV84fDjm9WGwF1px08m2cJD3aAWpG6c6lv7E4o4NAQWIlQBCAwDLO-6BMgC8_76k2reOdQm5RbcbY5O8jmQHOblhuow-YY-uWbecFG8UStLXyI9wLUCoLnh3QZCaTu6W2tYqfswhHEXqjf-oJUcdlkSH_-3OVlxRMBvA_ZcrV4VPaoYR80wteiDuwGh0RS/w194-h400/The%20Melter.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And above, possibly my favourite of the lot....The Melter! When he stares at people, they melt! Love the simple effectiveness of his talent!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIThKQsz_TL8Nvaj-N5y8rmnFhcqUSje5xzHGsj14ZqrS0YFAXdKjBaCHUbZeUWXDR8a-1JtyM51zZ2fS7kUrnWttsgmY39iTfDXvHEwFBMwcPVdcykNDGwe-bJk5q9JhBO6szq-8rZtb_TfF5vhaxWkhoGyfvQ66xdNHyt5rFMU9ATrvJniUr8k1OV89j/s447/Centennial%20Monster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="214" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIThKQsz_TL8Nvaj-N5y8rmnFhcqUSje5xzHGsj14ZqrS0YFAXdKjBaCHUbZeUWXDR8a-1JtyM51zZ2fS7kUrnWttsgmY39iTfDXvHEwFBMwcPVdcykNDGwe-bJk5q9JhBO6szq-8rZtb_TfF5vhaxWkhoGyfvQ66xdNHyt5rFMU9ATrvJniUr8k1OV89j/w191-h400/Centennial%20Monster.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Centennial Monster's loose eye disturbs me. It also seems bigger than the Giant-Eyed Monstrosity's ocular orb! One hundred feet of gooey, destructive mess and legs...Blergh!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5VIjUwyPXvJGP2F_Bg1FZyS260Dy4EquDfkz_M3FbaEW-4HdO-lRJD9kSDXIasnf-rEglEHZVHtx90wpUMInYZGz6E8LAD1yAfbH430mEuPOcCFJ71asLzA3K2NB-Um5o6UO2ct7qM_5qng8Qpz6nKRVRoibuAC2oBLBrh6NHZD3WvOU2UKa2W4hj6AT/s459/Xam-US%20No%2019235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="216" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW5VIjUwyPXvJGP2F_Bg1FZyS260Dy4EquDfkz_M3FbaEW-4HdO-lRJD9kSDXIasnf-rEglEHZVHtx90wpUMInYZGz6E8LAD1yAfbH430mEuPOcCFJ71asLzA3K2NB-Um5o6UO2ct7qM_5qng8Qpz6nKRVRoibuAC2oBLBrh6NHZD3WvOU2UKa2W4hj6AT/w189-h400/Xam-US%20No%2019235.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">And then this last one, who at first seems pretty boring for a monster...Loves everybody? Pfff...that's not terrifying at all! But then you look more closely at the drawing, and it somehow becomes more terrifying and disturbing the more you look at it. And that name! Xam-Us No. 19235....what sort of mad experiment is this? And does that mean there are 19234 other experimental creatures like this that have failed!?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While I was looking for a cover picture for Boris Karloff's Gold Key comic, I stumbled upon the fact that a brand new, non-reprint comic run is starting this very month! Pre-orders are now available for the comic which is due to launch on the 18th after a successful Kickstarter earlier in the year, and the blessing of the Karloff family, and you can find more information about it by clicking <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goldkeycomics/gold-key-comics-and-boris-karloff" target="_blank">here....</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjY2Ynpshhf9XnBGVc5H2xj5oHVo9k_8uQjgsYLmh9osEl6bv3yVwA-reCLR96B061kysZPfx1lFoJNd_FZ6td6tJX33tC6MVX0vFocv8J87_YgPIUqyJmQNHZVgtUGJpgzkIsCbTLNS0tewVSWqySN-ws7hp1bL54pMe7tx3vqItLREEJnQBsFndMFWyP/s598/boris%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjY2Ynpshhf9XnBGVc5H2xj5oHVo9k_8uQjgsYLmh9osEl6bv3yVwA-reCLR96B061kysZPfx1lFoJNd_FZ6td6tJX33tC6MVX0vFocv8J87_YgPIUqyJmQNHZVgtUGJpgzkIsCbTLNS0tewVSWqySN-ws7hp1bL54pMe7tx3vqItLREEJnQBsFndMFWyP/s320/boris%201.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope you enjoyed this lot! Crazy to think that all of the creators of these creatures will now probably be in their sixties or seventies! I had fun checking them out anyway...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Be sure to go see what the other Cryptkeepers, like Dex over at <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://aeiouwhy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">AEIOU....and Sometimes Why</a>, </i>have going on for the Countdown. 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