LITERAL REMAINS

…here I am, stuck in the middle with you.  It’s not a bad place to be stuck.  I kinda like it. You ever been in a rut?  Not like the blah blah ruts that people find themselves mired in, but a happy kind of rut.  Maybe it’s not even a rut.  Probably just a matter [...]

I assume, if it is safe to do so, that I became familiar with the works of Edgar Allan Poe as most people did, and I guess still do:  school.  If I remember correctly it was sometime around grammar school that I was introduced to Poe.  I don’t remember what grade I was in, but [...]

January 19th is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday.  It is also shared by me, your friendly novacula.  In celebration of Poe’s 201st birthday, I would like to share my favorite poem of his, “The Raven”.  It is probably the favorite of a lot of people, and it’s probably being plastered all over the net even as [...]

Yes, I know, everybody and their granny makes out a list of the best and worst movies and books and such and such of the year.  It’s a bandwagon, jump on.  Here are my picks of my favorites, and most loathed, from 2009.  Are they the best?  Maybe, maybe not.  Are they the worst?  See the answer to [...]

It’s been a hell of a year.  I guess that can be said about most years, though.  But in 2009 we lost Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, James “The Rev” Sullivan, Dan O’Bannon, Gene Barry, Mary Travers, Patrick Swayze, Ted Kennedy, Les Paul, John Hughes, Karl Malden, Ed McMahon, Dom DeLuise, Bea Arthur, Horton Foote, James [...]

Hello everyone.  Just wanted to drop a quick word to let you know that, hopefully, after this Thanksgiving holiday, I’ll be back here at the site with more frequency.  There has been a lot of things going on lately; like the old saying says, “Life is one damn thing after another.”  Very true. So, I [...]

I received the news Monday that one of my very dear friends, Abby, was in the hospital; she had a stroke on Saturday night.  As of the last news I received from her sister, Lebby, on Wednesday, she is awake and talking, though she does have a some confusion.  All the tests results are not back [...]

Halloween is over.  It’s been a week now.  Luckily, we can still carry the spirit of the season with us for another year.  How was your Halloween?  What did you do?  Were you able to post bail? I was hanging out with KatieBella and Obi Ken Kenobi at their Bungalow of Infamy.  We were joined [...]

Terror in a small town.  That’s what “Lois Holl’r” is.  I wanted to write something set in Fall, hopefully I’ve captured the essence of the season well enough.  It’s a story I tried to write several months ago, but I just couldn’t get it.  Finally, last month, I think I got it. “Lois Holl’r” stems from [...]

Is it just me or do mummies seem to be lacking in representation in the horror genre?  In quality work, I mean, not in the SyFy Original Movie vein.  The only good mummy movies are The Mummy, with Karloff, Bubba Ho-tep, and The Monster Squad.  I guess I could include Hammer’s The Mummy, but, really, should I?  [...]

Nothing goes with Halloween like good music.  The standard tunes of the season are “Monster Mash”, “Psycho” Theme, “Halloween” Theme, and the like.  Now, I do like some “Monster Mash” and “Funeral March of a Marionette”, but I thought I would put together a list of ten tunes that I feel have a certain disturbance to [...]