linkage/classics
Water fell from the sky this morning! It was terrifying. Possibly a sign of the end times.
I wanted to post some Halloween linkage but haven't found many appropriate links. Well, there are always the classics:
Edgar Allan Poe's
"The Masque of the Red Death", a tale of a Halloween party gone horribly wrong. (The
E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore has
quite a few of his stories online.)
H. P. Lovecraft's
"The Colour Out of Space", which I recall being a creepy story but which I also have not read in a few years. Unlike Poe, Lovecraft's work is not public domain (your Mickey Mouse Copyright Act at work); fortunately this has never been a barrier to being posted online.
Jack Chick's
"Happy Halloween". After all, what could be scarier than fundamentalist Christian tracts? Don't read too many of these; they'll rot your brain.
The
Zombie Infection Simulation v2.3. I know you've probably all seen it by now, but it should be here for completeness. It needs Java to work. I think the zombie speed should be adjustable so that
28 Days Later scenarios can be created with fast predatory zombies. However, you'd need a larger population base to make it interesting. London-sized, perhaps.
Today is
Peter Jackson's birthday. Before directing
Lord of the Rings, he was responsible for the zombie film
Dead Alive, in which he used 300 liters of fake blood in a single scene. (And you thought
Kill Bill was bloody...)
You've probably also seen Retrocrush's
bad Halloween costumes article.
And if you really need more Halloween links, here's
a memepool search for "halloween" to get you started.
Posted by Arcane Gazebo at October 31, 2003 12:47 PM | Tags: