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You're Next (Movie Review) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:21 am
You're Next (Lionsgate, 2013) Director Adam Wingard's home-invasion/slasher hybrid lacks the harrowing suspense of The Strangers, the psychological insight of (the original) Straw Dogs, and the dark ...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#15 25 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here.] #15. "God of the Razor" Humor is an undeniable hallmark of Lansdale's fiction, but anyone who thinks Champion Joe is always in a joking mood ne...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#16 23 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am
[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here.] #16. "Dead Sister" With his penchant for featuring sardonically witty narrators and for creating colorful, unforgettable monsters, Joe R. Lansd...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#17 20 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am
[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here.] #17. "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program" This offbeat 1994 tale (collected in High Cotton) features some spot-on humor. Structured as a dozen vig...
Beelzebub Tweets 18 Aug 2013 | 07:03 am
BLZ, Bub [For previous tweets, click here.] Deviled Egg: inception stage of Rosemary's baby. --8:14 P.M., August 16th Stone-faced: Sisyphus's lot in afterlife. --8:11 P.M., August 16th Sin Tax: th...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#18 16 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here.] #18. "Personality Problem" This 1983 offering is representative of another tale type Lansdale does so well: the quick and quirky narrative, pun...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#19 13 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
[For the previous entry on the Countdown, click here.] #19. "Big Man: A Fable" Forty-five-year-old Tim Burke is a prototypical wretch: short, bald, under-endowed, abundantly ugly. But when he eager...
Hangmany 12 Aug 2013 | 03:59 am
[For the previous game of Hangmany, click here.] Can you solve the following puzzle within 20 seconds, or are you going to choke? CATEGORY: TV CHARACTER ALIAS __ __ I S __ N __ __ R...
Countdown: The Top 20 Joe R. Lansdale Works of Short Fiction--#20 11 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
It's time to launch a new Countdown here at Macabre Republic. Over the next two months I will be covering the work of legendary East Texan raconteur Joe R. Lansdale, listing what I consider to be his...
Reactions to The Killing 6 Aug 2013 | 04:57 am
Closing thoughts on The Killing and it's two-hour season finale (Episode 11, "From Up Here"; Episode 12, "The Road to Hamelin"): *It's amazing Linden wasn't wheezing during her opening-scene jog, aft...
