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Simian Saturdays: Kong: Skull Island
Welcome to a special installment of Simian Saturdays, a series of reviews that examine the movies (and other media) that focused on King Kong, the giant monkey who’s captured generations of monster fans’ hearts. It’s part of our promotion for … Continue reading
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Tagged illustrated classics, king kong, kong: skull island, movie reviews, simian saturdays
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Simian Saturdays: King Kong (2005)
Okay, we’re a day late—sorry about that—but welcome back to Simian Saturdays (on Sunday!), a series of reviews that examine the movies (and other media) that focused on King Kong, the giant monkey that captured generations of monster fans’ hearts. … Continue reading
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Tagged illustrated classics, king kong, king kong 2005, movie reviews, simian saturdays
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Carmilla’s 145th Anniversary: Nightmare Classics
One hundred and forty-five years ago, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla, debuted in serialized form in the pages of the magazine Dark Blue—running from the December 1871 issue through March 1872—and was then reprinted in Le Fanu’s … Continue reading
Carmilla’s 145th Anniversary: The Vampire Lovers
One hundred and forty-five years ago, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla, debuted in serialized form in the pages of the magazine Dark Blue—running from the December 1871 issue through March 1872—and was then reprinted in Le Fanu’s … Continue reading
Simian Saturdays: King Kong (1976)
Welcome back to Simian Saturdays, a series of reviews that examine the movies (and other media) that focused on King Kong, the giant monkey that captured generations of monster fans’ hearts. It’s part of our countdown to the March 7 … Continue reading
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Tagged illustrated classics, king kong, king kong 1976, movie reviews, simian saturdays
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Simian Saturdays: King Kong (1933)
Welcome to the first installment of Simian Saturdays, a series of reviews I’m writing that will examine the movies (and other media) that focused on King Kong, the giant monkey who’s captured generations of monster fans’ hearts over the course … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Illustrated Classics, movies
Tagged illustrated classics, king kong, king kong 1933, movie reviews, simian saturdays
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Trains, Brains, and Killer Monkeymen
In last Friday’s post, I told you a Tale of Development Hell involving a proposed collection of brand-new movie reviews that was canceled shortly after a number of writers and I had delivered our contributions. Here then, for your reading … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher lee, horror express, movie reviews, peter cushing, tales of development hell, telly savalas
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That Time Dracula, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Kojak Became Monster Hunters
You remember my series of posts called Tales of Development Hell, don’t you? They’re the real-life stories of publishing projects in which I’d been involved that died tragic deaths somewhere during the development process. Sometimes they were murdered before a … Continue reading