27 Oct #Spooktober 27 – The Darkest Dungeon
I'm talking about the first one. The second one is...
I'm talking about the first one. The second one is...
Do you want something spooky that's not Gothic and yet manages to be deeply unsettling? This 2006 mini-series starring Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies is an absolute gem. After coming across several objects that hide incredibly weird powers behind an absolutely ordinary appearance, detective Joe Miller...
Originally titled "Foreign Girl", and with an Irish song as a subtitle, this 11-volume manga is one of the finest things produced in the last ten years and it tells the story of Shiva, a young girl, who is abandoned in a cursed forest and...
It's an obligation for me to watch this 2005 movie at least one time a year, preferably during the spooky season, as it's one of the finest features from Nick Park and his Aardman Animations. Co-produced with Dreamworks, it reprises the inventor Wallace and his dog...
Is there anything more Halloweenish than Neil Gaiman? Oh yes, there is: an album by Neil Gaiman and the FourPlay String Quartet. Described as a "Classical Crossover", it features Neil's voice alongside a violin, two violas and a cello. Words are primarily by Neil, when they're...
Today's book is published by the University of Washington Press and focuses on the life and work of Luo Ping, an XVII Century Chinese artist. In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733–99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City....
Thorvald Niss was a Danish XIX Century painter, and he's mostly known for his landscapes but, as is the case for many of the artists we're featuring this Spooktober, there's more to him than meets the eye. Today on my Patreon we take a look...
If you haven't played this murder mystery, it's high time you start. And I don't care if the graphics look weird to you (they are), and if you suck at puzzles (I do): the game is a masterpiece in storytelling, the music kicks asses, and...
The show is a new and much anticipated one since it marks the return of Mike Flanagan, author and director of the acclaimed Midnight Mass. Loosely based on the homonymous short story by Edgar Allan Poe and taking inspiration from other stories as well, it...
I bought this manga at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles right before my long travel back to Italy, and I have to be thankful I can't sleep on airplanes, because this would have prevented me from doing that anyway. Kurouzu-cho is a small town in...