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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 30, 2019 7:45:02 GMT
My OCD hates the fact this cover's image has been reversed; although it's common to depict Nazi armbands on whatever arm is closest to the viewer on covers, you can tell the swastikas are backwards as well. Oh well. A novel that parodies Nazism as a pathetic angry little boys' science fiction fantasy. Our "hero" Feric Jaggar is an utter marvel to behold with his sheer sadism and mercilessness. Other characters are clearly pastiches of real-life Nazi figureheads. The plot is set in an alternate universe where World War II never happened. It's the post-apocalyptic future and humanity, except for the citizens of the country of Helder, has devolved into mutations and inbred "mongrels." Genetically pure Helder people are known as "Truemen," and their mortal enemy is the eastern nation of Zind, which is ruled by highly advanced psychic humans known as Dominators or "Doms." They have the power to use mind control over ordinary humans and other living creatures to bend them to their will. Manly man's man Feric Jaggar has been wandering the wastelands before returning to his homeland of Helder, whose borders are ostensibly closed to all but Truemen. But Jaggar is upset to discover that the genetic screenings are lax because one of the border guards, Lance Corporal Mork, is a Dominator. Due to his experience wandering the scoured Earth, Jaggar recognizes Mork for what he is, but Mork's superiors, under the sinister Dom's mental control, don't believe Jaggar. Nevertheless, they allow Jaggar entry into Helder. At a pub called the Wolf's Lair, Jaggar befriends a man named Seph Bogel, a propaganda man for one of Helder's more radical political parties, the Human Renaissance Party. According to Bogel, the biggest threat to Helder (and thus genetically pure humans) are the Universalists, a political party who wants open borders to use mutants as slave laborers. Bogel is positive that one or more of the leading members of the Universalists is a Dominator. Jaggar takes care of the lax border problem by whipping everyone in the Wolf's Lair into a frenzy of mob violence, whereupon they go and murder Lance Corporal Mork, the aforementioned Dominator masquerading as an ordinary human border guard. This frees the other guards from Mork's mental control. But the Dom problem runs deeper than just the border patrol and Jaggar aims to take the fight all the way to the top. He and Bogel find themselves captives of the Black Avengers, one of those biker gangs that plague the post-apocalyptic world, even within the borders of the supposedly idyllic Helder. Using an ancient scepter shaped like a fist called the Steel Commander to persuade, by right of combat, the Avengers' leader Stag Stopa, to aid him, Jaggar forcibly takes control of the Human Renaissance Party, storming the capitol and executing all the leading Helder politicians as traitors, including the Universalist party leader Lorst Gelbart, who it turns out is a Dominator. Noteworthy is the fact Jaggar kills him first, thus freeing the other politicians from his mind control... but unlike the border guards earlier, he has them killed anyway even though the entire point is that anyone under a Dominator's mental control isn't responsible for their own actions. As we'll see, consistency and Feric Jaggar aren't well acquainted. Army officers Field Marshall (sic) Lar Waffing and General Heermark Forman soon throw their lot in with Jaggar and the Renaissance Party, now rechristened as the Sons of the Swastika (none too subtly abbreviated as "SS"); the swastika being an ancient symbol of racial purity (according to Jaggar, anyway). Under the direction of Bors Remler, the SS establishes a series of "Classification Camps" to ensure which citizens of Helder and the surrounding provinces are fit to continue contributing to the gene pool; Truemen who fail to meet the criteria are exiled or sterilized; mutants are euthanized; Dominator spies who've infiltrated Helder are brutally murdered, for although the Truemen of Helder hate all "impure" people, the psychic Dominators they despise most of all, for the Doms of Zind wish to control the entire world. After some early trouble where it's revealed that Stopa and his men have betrayed the cause and taken up with the Dominators, forcing the SS to kill almost all of them, with Jaggar personally machine-gunning Stopa, the armies of Helder march forth into the wasteland on a campaign of ethnic cleansing with the end goal of destroying Zind and every last Dominator on Earth before they can rediscover the "fire of the ancients" (nuclear weapons). The Iron Dream's story-within-a-story, " Lord of the Swastika," plays out like a grotesque Nazi fanfiction (complete with a completely different outcome in which there are no Allied powers opposing them and they win in the end), and Feric Jaggar and friends are the worst "heroes" in literary history, outdoing even Dyke Mellis in Pierce Nace's equally grotesque Eat Them Alive. Dyke at least was a lone madman (albeit one with an army of giant praying mantises), whereas Jaggar has an entire country at his beck and call with which to wreak havoc upon an unsuspecting post-apocalyptic world. The Dominators aside, most of the story's non-human inhabitants are just ordinary mutant families trying to get by, but the Truemen alternate between pitying and despising them, ultimately eradicating them just the same. Though unlike in Nace's book, Jaggar's megalomania is entirely Spinrad's point; this is a post-apocalyptic thriller told from the villain's point of view and it works excellently, even if the Nazi allegories are are a little too on-the-nose. Saying which, as there's no female characters in the book (beyond some genetically engineered sex slaves provided to Stopa's crew by the Dominators), and all the focus on the SS' tight leather uniforms, especially the jodhpurs, there's a lot of both intended and unintended homoeroticism between Jaggar and various other male characters, particularly his aide Ludolf Best as well as Stag Stopa before Stopa's betrayal. Jaggar and Best's interactions during the latter portions of the book read like two gay serial killers on a homicidal rampage (and speaking of Eat Them Alive, there was homoerotic stuff in that as well, particularly between Dyke and Ryan when Dyke has Slayer eat Ryan's dick off). But no actual homosexual love, or, God forbid, homosexual sex; they've got to contribute to the gene pool, after all (all the talk of breeding makes the lack of female characters besides the aforementioned sex slaves, who our "heroes" of course kill because they're inferior Zind stock, all the stranger). What's especially interesting is the afterward by a historian named Homer Whipple. The entire book is presented as a real novel written not by Norman Spinrad but by Adolf Hitler himself, who in another, very meta alternate timeline outside of the book's own, immigrated to the US after World War I, never became dictator of Germany (meaning World War II and the Holocaust never happened), and became a successful writer of trashy pulp fiction. Whipple is critical of Hitler's book, dismissing Feric Jaggar as a "monster," a product of a vivid but and disturbing but ultimately harmless, overactive imagination, concluding that it's a good thing the kind of fascism Mr. Hitler drew inspiration for his book from never actually caught on. If only, Mr. Whipple. If only. Although he, uh, "ironically" sees no harm in fans of the book cosplay in the SS' outfits and follow its core tenets like fascist Trekkies. After all, what harm could ever come of that? As an standard post-apocalyptic adventure yarn, ignoring all the allegory, The Iron Dream/ Lord of the Swastika is passable, with lots of violence, invincible heroes, big battles, and monsters like blobs, multi-headed snakes, toadmen, lizardmen and various genetically engineered super soldiers created by the Zind Dominators. Nevertheless, I'd only recommend reading it if you're in on the gag about Adolf Hitler being a trashy pulp writer instead of a genocidal dictator.
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 30, 2019 7:27:31 GMT
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 30, 2019 7:13:11 GMT
American scientists led by Dr. Peter Yudkin (who feigns a foreign accent to go with his European-sounding surname to seem smarter) at an observatory take photographic plates of a mysterious celestial object near Mars using a highly sophisticated telescope and determine it is a cloud of some sort. Predicting that it will reach Earth in a matter of days and that the planet will in fact pass through it, NASA sends a rocket to collect samples of it. Analyzing the samples, they determine the cloud is organic in nature, composed primarily of polymers and a few other elements they can't identify. However, test animals subjected to the particles the rocket collected don't seem affected by it, and so at first it seems as if nothing harmful will come of its contact with Earth. The cloud soon permeates the planet's atmosphere. Although Earth is only enveloped in its mass for a day before it moves on, the organic polymers start having an unusual effect on the environment. Oceanographer Dr. Sam Brooks and his colleague Dr. Charlie Frazier along with a science reporter named Carl Loudermilch are out on the ocean collecting samples of seawater for analysis when they discover that the cloud is increasing water viscosity somehow. All water on Earth is slowly taking on a consistency roughly akin to rubber cement or gel. With nothing to drink, no rain, no water to irrigate crops and the oceans slowly solidifying into a viscous glop, Brooks, Frazier and Loudermilch, along with wealthy yacht owners Hugh Winthrop and Gail Cooper, stranded in the ocean, have to figure out a means of reversing the cloud's effects as order begins to break down around the world with Earth facing a potentially apocalyptic global drought. I really liked Thomas and Wilhelm's earlier collaboration, The Clone, and The Year of the Cloud doesn't disappoint. To an extent, it feels like an evolution of the basic idea in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt. Like The Clone, it focuses on a catastrophe (an interstellar cloud as opposed to a blob monster) affecting a large and varied cast of characters, showing the reader how the authorities, the scientific community and ordinary people deal with the crisis, but with a few key differences. First and foremost is the nature of the threat. The "clone" in the previous novel was an amorphous flesh glob possessing a rudimentary intelligence (of a sort); it had agency and motivation and was decidedly terrestrial in origin, created accidentally by human carelessness. The Yudkin Cloud, as it's named after the kinda Yudkin who takes credit for its discovery (although it's actually an assistant named Charlie Porter who first notices it on the photographic plates) despite its informed organic nature is just, well, a cloud, traveling aimlessly through outer space with no end goal in mind; that it happened to cross paths with Earth is pure chance. Secondly, there's the scale of the disaster. In The Clone, the eponymous monster only threatens Chicago; there is the threat of it spreading beyond the city limits and into the rest of Illinois and eventually the country/the world, but the authorities, led by the heroic Dr. Mark Kenniston, are able to successfully beat it. In this novel, however, the entire world is already under threat from the cloud's effects; the damage is done and it's up to Brooks and co. to reverse rather than prevent the apocalypse. And thirdly, although there are other characters, unlike The Clone, The Year of the Cloud is primarily concerned with the people on the yacht, and said core group are more or less stuck; Mark, his girlfriend Nurse Edie Hempstead and his friend Harry Schwartz run around from place to place in Chicago aiding the authorities, but Brooks, Loudermilch and co. are pretty much stranded on the boat for the duration. One improvement over The Clone is that the protagonists actually thus have a reason to continue being involved. As much as I love The Clone, it's weird seeing a junior pathologist, a nurse and a dishwasher commanding legions of fire fighters, cops and being allowed into high level government meetings; like Ben Peterson in Them!, Thomas and Wilhelm continue having them around as the main characters apparently for no other reason than they were the first characters (besides the unfortunate Wendalls) who encountered the clone and it feels just as artificial there as it did in Them! (much as I love that movie). Here, at least, Brooks is a scientist specializing in the study of seawater, so his profession puts him front and center of the crisis, Loudermilch is a reporter, so his continued involvement makes sense, and as for Hugh and Gail, well, they own the boat the other characters are on, so they make sense by default. In short, everyone actually has a reason to continue being involved in the narrative (not that this attention to detail matters, exactly, considering the other reason everyone continues being involved is because their vessel is stranded in a sea of Jell-O). So the two books are similar but different and it's nice to see that Thomas and Wilhelm don't repeat all of their previous novel's themes and even fixing some of the mistakes. Also, yes, I have the Playboy edition, and, yes, it's odd that Thomas is going by "Ted Thomas" and not his full name as he did with The Clone. He goes by Ted Thomas on the Doubleday hardcover edition as well. Did he start shortening his name later his career ( The Clone's original short story version being from 1959 and the expanded novel with Wilhelm being from 1965,and The Year of the Cloud being from 1970). On a more personal note, the idea of scuba diving in ordinary water only to suddenly have it transmogrify into a more solidified state that I can't swim through and having to thrash, kick and fight my way to the surface or risk being trapped is a pretty grotesque and terrifying concept. Note I'd ever go scuba diving anyway as deep water terrifies the absolute hell outta me. But still, kudos to Mr. Thomas and Ms. (Mrs.?) Wilhelm.
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Post by kooshmeister on Oct 7, 2019 21:00:15 GMT
Nabbed a copy of this, the recently unearthed original version of what eventually became Who Goes There?, which is 45 pages longer than the final published version of the story. I actually kinda prefer it to what Campbell went with. I think the huge as-you-know style info dump at the beginning with McReady telling how they found the spaceship and "Thing" as one long monologue is clunky, and prefer Frozen Hell's version which actually begins with McReady's team making the discovery, dispensing with the info dump back at Big Magnet later. This way, it's more a slow (freezing?) burn to the horror as they actually dig the frozen alien out, and I particularly liked Barclay's reaction to it. Connant getting a first name (Jerry) was also a plus. Maybe I'm alone in this, though. It's also got kickass cover art by Bob Eggleton, as you can see.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jul 29, 2019 17:59:16 GMT
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Post by kooshmeister on Jul 18, 2019 11:07:57 GMT
Okay, so I got the Dover reprints of Nine Horrors and a Dream and The Shapes of Midnight. That's right! Joseph Payne Brennan and his awesome stories have seen paperback for the first time in the New Millennium! Annoyingly, though, Dover's version of The Shapes of Midnight not only omits the 1980 edition's Stephen King introduction, but also Canavan's Back Yard and Slime! Fortunately, these two stories are in Dover's Nine Horrors and a Dream, and it's possible that Dover felt that having two short story collections share two stories was a little redundant, but, still, Shapes of Midnight feels a little weird without those two... especially since in the original 1980 version, Slime closed the collection out, and, now, without it, Shapes ends on a whimper with what is probably my least favorite Brennan story ever (and I even like the completely un-scary but weirdly endearing House of Memory!), The House on Hazel Street! Boo! What's especially bizarre is that despite not including the King intro, they quote it on the back cover... which is hilarious considering it omits the two stories King's introduction singled out as the highlights of the collection! So Dover is actually misrepresenting what King wrote to some extent by not including Canavan's Back Yard and Slime, the two tales Uncle Stevie praises at great length in the introduction they omitted but cherrypicked quotes from. Oh well. It still has classics like Diary of a Werewolf (the joys of ripping the throats out of little girls and elderly women!), The Corpse of Charlie Rull (the irony of a serial killer ending up as the victim!), The Pavilion (Niles' descent into madness as he hunts for Kurt's corpse is delicious), Who Was He? (even if it has kind of disappointing ending), The Horror at Chilton Castle (a great story of almost quasi-Lovecraftian horror) and Disappearance (which feels like it could be the basis for a great episode of Criminal Minds; Dan was there the whole time! The whole time! Something tells me Sheriff Kellington isn't getting re-elected), and, as noted, Slime and Canavan's Back Yard are safely included in the Nine Horrors and a Dream reprint. So, definitely get these. But if you want the Stephen King introduction/the complete version of The Shapes of Midnight with all twelve stories and already have the 1980 paperback, hang onto it. Dover dropped the ball on it. But their Nine Horrors reprint is gold! I also got The Monster Book of Monsters (which coincidentally also has Slime, which appears to be the world's most popular blob monster story) for The Plant-Thing by R.G. Macready and was... pretty disappointed. Sorry, Mr. Macready but it was short and kinda dull. The House on Stillcroft Street by Joseph Payne Brennan is a much better killer plant yarn, making me hope Dover does The Borders Just Beyond next - for that, the creepy Long Hollow Swamp (even if it is just a retread of Canavan's Back Yard but with giant slugs, but slugs make everything better!) and the deliciously ironic Hobbies and the weirdly heartwarming Lottman's End, two stories which make me think Brennan was a real animal lover. Basically, I'm a total Brennan fanboy now. Also: Beast by Peter Benchley. And the novelization of The Dark by Max Franklin, which retains the killer's origins as a zombie occultist and not a laser-spewing space alien. And the one of Event Horizon by Steven E. McDonald. And the one for Godzilla: King of the Monsters by Greg Keyes (both novelization and movie read on the same day and quite enjoyed, I'm happy to report). Anything with Charles Dance Charles Dancing it up is good stuff.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 21, 2019 16:05:13 GMT
Nabbed Philip Wylie's The Murderer Invisible, and the short story collections Invisible Men and Zacherley's Vulture Stew.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 22, 2019 18:15:36 GMT
Ordered a copy of Victor Norwood's Night of the Black Horror, kindly recommend to me by the fine folks here at the Vault. I love how the question on the cover lacks a question mark. Or not. Both of the Amazon sellers I attempted to acquire the book from have failed me. The first cancelled without explanation, the second informed me the book isn't in stock and they simply forgot to update. This leaves me with one existing option on Amazon, and if they're out of stock, too, then I'll have to try somewhere else. EBay has continually failed me; Night of the Black Horror never turns up on there. This is extraordinarily frustrating. Assuming Amazon Seller #3 doesn't come through, anyone know where I can nab this thing for a decent price?
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 18, 2019 14:25:19 GMT
Ordered a copy of Victor Norwood's Night of the Black Horror, kindly recommend to me by the fine folks here at the Vault. I love how the question on the cover lacks a question mark.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 14, 2019 22:21:42 GMT
My second copy of Mr. Smith's immortal epic The Slime Beast! I got the NEL edition again because I've always loved the cheesy ray of light shining behind the Slime Beast/through his legs. It makes it look like he's about to be hit by an oncoming train whooshing up behind him. And the sequel, Spawn of the Slime Beast, which I've wanted to read for some time now, although can someone tell me why the title looks like it's written in Slime Beast jizz? Maybe that's how he gets spawn; he goes and donates at the sperm bank. Or maybe it's cake frosting? He's throwing a birthday party for his spawn. ...God my mind goes to weird places.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 14, 2019 20:20:40 GMT
It also occurs to me that the Simpsons Comics also did Treehouse of Horror issues, and one of them was a Blob spoof involving Sideshow Bob called, well, Sideshow Blob!, written by Paul Dini. In it, Bob, in prison, is suffering from a cold and volunteers for a scientific experiment of Dr. Nick's to relieve the symptoms by having the mucus membranes harmlessly absorbed back into his body. Nevermind that this not only doesn't address the issue of the actual disease, but it would effectively take away one of the body's defense mechanisms against germs, but Nick is a moron so he gets the formula reversed. Instead of the mucus being absorbed back into Bob's body, the opposite happens, and Bob mutates into an enormous tentacled mucus monster with Sideshow Bob's head on top. After killing Dr. Nick, the warden (kinda drawn to resemble Warden Meece from SWAT Kats' " Chaos in Crystal," another story about an experiment with an inmate gone wrong) and a guard, "Sideshow B lob" escapes from prison with but one thing on his mind - vengeance against you-know-who. And this time, he's including Lisa, because, as he explains it, she's helped Bart defeat him. It's Halloween and the Simpsons siblings are out trick-or-treating. Bob does them a favor by gobbling up Jimbo Jones after he somehow mistakes him for Bart (!), then also eats Nelson and the other bullies "because." Each time Bart and Lisa go to an authority figure looking for assistance (Professor Frink, Reverend Lovejoy and, finally, Krusty), they're told giant blob monsters don't exist and get kicked out - only for Bob to come in right after they leave and kill whoever they just spoke to. It gets pretty repetitive, and kinda dumb since Bob only ate three people at the prison, ignoring the other guards and inmates as he focused on escaping, so it's not like he hasn't left witnesses who'd be spreading the story already, so this "adults don't believe the kids" portion feels forced and arbitrary. Finally, they discover that the mucus monster hates cold, and while Lisa distracts Bob into singing a song by playing her saxophone (!), Bart hoses him down with the Kwik-E-Mart's Squishee machine. This freezes him into chunks of icy, flesh-colored goop and seems to kill him. The next day, the cops still don't believe their story, again, despite there being plenty of witnesses in the form of the surviving prison guards... but, then, it's Chief Wiggum and his dunderheads, so I'll let it slide. The comic ends with the revelation that Bob's head survived and escapes into the sewer, and ends up in a Splash Mountain type water amusement park (which is open in October for some reason: between this and the fact Bob didn't clear the entire prison out at the beginning, I have a feeling Dini lost track of himself somewhat and forgot a lot of what had been previously established). Interestingly, it came out in 1996, whereas "Treehouse of Horror XVII" came out in 2006, so Sideshow Blob! beat "Married to the Blob" to the punch by an entire decade as far as Simpsons-themed Blob parodies go. Though this wouldn't be the only time the series recycled plots from the comics and did them, IMO, a little clumsier. Such as 2001's "HOMR," where Homer becomes intelligent because they discover he's had a damn crayon shoved up his nose all his life without anyone ever knowing, and he turns into a genius after they remove it. Well, this episode was predated by 1996's They Fixed Homer's Brain!, about Homer becoming smart, but because he volunteers to test an intelligence-boosting formula of Professor Frink's in order to pay to buy Lisa a new saxophone. It's funny how the version from the comic feels more like something I'd actually see in the show than the version the show eventually actually ended up with. Both, of course, focus on the newly intelligent Homer bonding with Lisa more and becoming alienated from Bart, before eventually returning to being an idiot by choice after realizing nobody likes him as a smart person, although, again, I feel that the comic did it better. In "HOMR," everyone except Lisa is a jerk who preferred Homer when he was dumb, so Homer undergoes the regression back to stupidity of his own choice, despite Lisa not wanting him to. In They Fixed Homer's Brain!, however, Homer is the one who alienates himself from everyone because his newfound intelligence makes him aloof and arrogant, and it Lisa, not him, who notices this and asks him to reverse the treatment, for the sake of the family. And there's no dumb subplot about the doctors refusing to reverse the treatment and Moe being an unlicensed physician who stuffs a crayon back up Homer's nose; Homer just stops taking the intelligence-boosting formula. ...yeah, somehow this turned into a "I liked the Simpsons comics better than the Simpsons show" dissertation. XD
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 14, 2019 11:05:38 GMT
Got this: 1987's (or 1988's, depending) Cinemonsters, a collection revolving around short stories (and in the case of Who Goes There?, novellas) that have been adapted into films. Although it's nice having all these stories together, for a book edited by three different people, it's a pretty slapdash affair. Although it promises to cover the differences between the stories and the films based on them, it saves this for an appendix at the end and each individual story/movie(s)' entry, with cast list(s), is lazily brief, and there are a number of errors. For Re-Animator, it credits Robert Sampson as Dean Halsey twice, and even though it correctly identifies David Gale as Hill, in a still of Hill's headless body carrying his own head in a tray that accompanies the actual story, it identifies Hill as being played by Fritz Weaver (!). In the cast list for 1982's The Thing, it credits Richard Dysart as playing "Dr. Cooper," not Dr. Copper, and in its synopsis of that movie, claims that "the closing scene reveals that the attempt [to kill the alien] has failed," which is in no way definite, and very misleading of Waugh, Greenberg and McSherry to put in. Another puzzling thing is theme under which Killdozer! is placed. Most of the stories are classified under different themes - Who Goes There? is under Aliens, Herbert West - Reanimator is under Mad Scientists, There Shall Be No Darkness is under Werewolves, etc. - but Killdozer! is under... Mutants. I confess that I haven't tucked into Killdozer! yet (I've only seen the film and never read the original story), but how exactly does a possessed vehicle count as a mutant? And finally, there's the judgment against (then) new horror. I know nothing about Waugh, Greenberg and McSherry outside of this collection they've edited, but considering that the introduction waxes philosophic about seeing 1932's The Mummy and 1944's The Mummy's Ghost in the theater, refers to Hawks' The Thing from Another World as the superior film to Carpenter's The Thing (which is debatable and reeks of kneejerk reactionism), and disgustedly dismisses Re-Animator as "repulsively carnographic," I'm thinking the three were old fogies who shook their heads in scowling distaste at what the 80s had to offer in terms of sci-fi and horror.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 14, 2019 5:44:40 GMT
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 13, 2019 20:34:22 GMT
With Valentine's Day upon us (tomorrow!), I figured I'd create Valen-Slime's Day, celebrating all things oozy, blobby, muddy and yucky. So here is my attempt at creating a comprehensive list of slime and blob creatures in fiction: Books: At the Mountains of Madness (1931) by H.P. Lovecraft The Blob (1982) by Ian Thorne The Blob (1988) by David Bischoff Bonechillers #10 - Slime Time (1996) by Betsy Haynes
The Clone (1965) by Theodore L. Thomas and Kate Wilhelm Flood Plains (2012) by Mark Wheaton Goosebumps #3: Monster Blood (1992) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #15: You Can't Scare Me! (1994) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #18: Monster Blood II (1994) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #29: Monster Blood III (1995) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #55: The Blob That Ate Everyone (1997) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #61: I Live in Your Basement! (1997) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps #62: Monster Blood IV (1997) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps HorrorLand #3: Monster Blood for Breakfast! (2008) by R.L. Stine Goosebumps HorrorLand #17: The Wizard of Ooze (2010) by R.L. Stine Ghostbusters (1984) by Larry Milne
Ghostbusters II (1989) by Ed Naha
Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular (1985) by Richard Mueller
Ghosts of Fear Street #8: The Ooze (1996) by R.L. Stine Graveyard School #7 - Slime Lake (1995) by Tom B. Stone
Mutant Point Horror #2: Night of the Toxic Slime (2000) by Anthony Masters Night of the Black Horror (1961) by Victor Norwood Phantoms (1983) by Dean R. Koontz Shadow Zone #7 - One Slimy Summer (1994)
Slime (1984) by John Halkin Slime (1988) by William Essex Slimer (1983) by Harry Adam Knight The Thing (1982) by Alan Dean Foster Who Goes There? (1938) by John W. Campbell, Jr. Short Stories: Bhuillaneadh (1931) - R.F. Broad
The Clone (1959) by Theodore L. Thomas The Crawling Horror (1936) by Thorp McClusky The Deadly Slime (1939) by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. Green Slime (1933) by J. Dyott Matthews Gray Matter (1993) by Stephen King Invasion of the Blobs by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart It! (1940) by Theodore Sturgeon I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob (1996) by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Raft (1982) by Stephen King Slime (1953) by Joseph Payne Brennan Slime (1994) by Jon A. Harrald The Thing Too Hideous to Describe... (2003) by David J. Schow Comics: Crime Detector #5 - Ultimate Destiny (1954)
The Haunt of Fear #11 - Ooze in the Cellar? (1950) The Haunt of Fear #15 - The Thing in the Swamp! (1950)
The Incredible Hulk #121 - Within the Swamp There Stirs... a Glob! (1969) The Incredible Hulk #389 - Of Man and Man-Thing (1992) Journey Into Mystery #72 - The Glob (1961) Shock SuspenStories #9 - The Meddlers! (1953) The Simpsons Comics: Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #2 - Sideshow Blob! (1996)
Startling Terror Tales #10 - The Horrible Entity (1954)
Vault of Horror #27 - Strictly from Hunger! (1953)
Movies (Live Action): The Angry Red Planet (1959) Beware! The Blob (1972) The Blob (1958) The Blob (1988) Body Melt (1993)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) The Creeping Terror (1964) Creepshow 2 (1987) Dogma (1999)
First Spaceship on Venus (1960) The Flame Barrier (1958) Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters II (1989) Gnaw: Food of the Gods II (1989)
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) Goosebumps (2015) The Green Slime (1968) The H-Man (1958) The Incredible Melting Man (1977) Life (2017)
Monsturd (2003)
Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) Night of the Big Heat (1967) Phantoms (1998) Prince of Darkness (1987)
Proteus (1995) The Quatermass Experiment (1953) The Quatermass Experiment (2005)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Quatermass II (1957) Space Master X-7 (1958) Street Trash (1987)
The Stuff (1985) The Thing (1982) The Thing (2011) Unknown Terror (1957) X... the Unknown (1956) The X-Files (1998) Movies (Animated): Akira (1988)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Justice League Dark (2017) Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977)
TV Series (Live Action): Doctor Who Ep. 54a-g - Inferno (1970) Doctor Who Ep. 69a-f - The Green Death (1973) Doctor Who Ep. 189 - Partners in Crime (2008)
Doctor Who Ep. 217a - The Rebel Flesh (2011)
Doctor Who Ep. 217b - The Almost People (2011)
Goosebumps Ep. 26 - You Can't Scare Me (1996) Goosebumps Ep. 34 - Monster Blood (1996) Goosebumps Ep. 35 - More Monster Blood (1996) Goosebumps Ep. 42 - The Blob That Ate Everyone (1997) Star Trek: The Next Generation Ep. 22 - Skin of Evil (1988)
The X-Files Ep. 55 - 2Shy (1995) The X-Files Ep. 64 - Piper Maru (1996) The X-Files Ep. 65 - Apocrypha (1996)
The X-Files Ep. 81 - Tunguska (1996) The X-Files Ep. 82 - Terma (1996)
The X-Files Ep. 130 - Agua Mala (1999) The X-Files Ep. 138 - Field Trip (1999) The X-Files Ep. 139 - Arcadia (1999)
The X-Files Ep. 179 - Vienen (2001) TV Series (Animated): American Dragon: Jake Long Ep. 46 - Magic Enemy #1 (2007) Batman: The Animated Series Ep. 20-21 - Feat of Clay (1992) Batman: The Animated Series Ep. 52 - Mudslide (1993) Batman Beyond Ep. 3 - Black Out (1999) Batman Beyond Ep. 11 - Disappearing Inque (1999) Batman Beyond Ep. 14 - Splicers (1999)
Batman Beyond Ep. 15 - Earth Mover (1999) Batman Beyond Ep. 21 - Hooked Up (1999)
Batman Beyond Ep. 42 - Inqueling (2000) Batman Beyond Ep. 46 - The Call (2000) Captain Planet and the Planeteers Ep. 28 - The Garbage Strikes (1991) Cybersix Ep. 3 - Terra (1999)
Darkwing Duck Ep. 57 - Slime Okay, You're Okay (1992) Exosquad Ep. 25 - The Greatest Fear (1994) Exosquad Ep. 26 - Flesh Crawls (1994) G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Ep. 28 - The Germ (1985)
Godzilla: The Series Ep. 4 - Talkin' Trash (1998) Godzilla: The Series Ep. 20 - Trust No One (1999)
Jonny Quest Ep. 12 - Creeping Unknown (1986) Justice League Ep. 43-44 - Secret Society (2003) Justice League Unlimited Ep. Ep. 26 - Epilogue (2005)
Mighty Max Ep. 17 - The Missing Linked (1994) The New Batman Adventures Ep. 1 - Holiday Knights (1997) The New Batman Adventures Ep. 8 - Growing Pains (1998) The Pirates of Dark Water Ep. 3 - Break Up (1991) The Pirates of Dark Water Ep. 5 - Victory (1991) The Pirates of Dark Water Ep. 7 - A Drop of Darkness (1991) The Pirates of Dark Water Ep. 13 - The Darkdweller (1991) The Pirates of Dark Water Ep. 14 - The Dark Disciples (1991)
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Ep. 35 - DNA Doomsday (1996)
The Real Ghostbusters Ep. 24 - Ain't NASA-Sarily So (1987) Rocko's Modern Life Ep. 6b - Trash-O-Madness (1993) Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Ep. 1 - Beware the Beast from Below (2010) The Simpsons Ep. 382 - Treehouse of Horror XVII (2006)
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Ep. 2 - The Giant Bacteria (1993) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Ep. 4 - Destructive Nature (1993) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron ep. 11 - The Ci-Kat-A (1993) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Ep. 13 - Katastrophe (1993) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron Ep. 14 - Mutation City (1994) Sym-Bionic Titan Ep. 7 - Showdown at Sherman High (2010) Taz-Mania Ep. 49a - The Thing That Ate the Outback (1993)
The Tick Ep. 8 - The Tick vs. the Uncommon Cold (1994) Transformers: Animated Ep. 5 - Total Meltdown (2008) Transformers: Animated Ep. 12 - Survival of the Fittest (2008) Transformers: Animated Ep. 26 - Black Friday (2008) Video Games: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009)
The Ooze (1995) Resident Evil 2 (1998) Resident Evil 2 (2019) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017) Resident Evil: Dead Aim (2003) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1994)
Anything I'm missing? I know there's way more blobs and slimes out there...
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 4, 2019 4:48:30 GMT
This is the first I've heard of it, but it appears that both "Shapes of Midnight" and "nine Horrors and a Dream" are scheduled for mid-year reprints! Awesome! That's extremely welcome news. To say the least. Now a new generation can read Brennan's stuff and I won't have to pay through the nose if anything happens to my moldering old paperbacks, heh.
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