David Cronenberg’s The Fly at 40: A Love Letter to the Rot

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» Planescape: Torment, Part 2: …to the Desktop The Digital Antiquarian

The photographer’s model for the visage of The Nameless One on the now-iconic Planescape: Torment box was actually Guido Henkel, the game’s producer, who was enlisted at the last minute when the planned professional model had a “scheduling conflict.”

The AI Vampire

This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history

Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed. Here, members of the cast and crew remember laughter, tricky puppets and Henson’s ‘joyful magic’

If the DNA molecule is the book of life, it's a very strange book indeed - 3 Quarks Daily

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Can history be changed? The Butterfly Effect....

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Gary Scott Beatty's Strange Horror | Substack

Start here! Subscribe and instantly download a free comic! Plus eye candy, story, video and updates about my passion projects are yours. Enjoy tales inspired by '70s B-movies, Creepy and Eerie, and weird fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Click to read Gary Scott Beatty's Strange Horror, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The passenger

"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, an inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul."--Dust jacket flap

What Kind of Bird Can't Fly by Dorsey Nunn | East Bay Booksellers

A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights."Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible—from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and society—should make time to read Dorsey Nunn's extraordinary memoir.