“The Masque of the Red Death” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe originally published in 1842. It tells the story of a group of wealthy nobles attempting to avoid a plague [...]
Once, a long time ago, I stood in the sky far above the world. The observation deck of the World Trade Center was more than 1000 feet high. The windows were wide, floor-to-ceiling glass. The first thing I did was [...]
Not much to say about this one other than…Snoopy flies on NASA missions and brings back vital information. That is as adorable as it is cool. A Well-traveled Beagle Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, [...]
Today’s NASA image comes from an area on Mars with craters that “contain curious deposits with mysterious shapes and distribution.” Or so they claim! I personally have a feeling they simply took a photo of a little-known Pink Floyd album [...]
I love science fiction. A simple perusal of this site and you could pick that up pretty quickly. And science fiction movies in particular are my favorite way of mine to pass the time [...]
Hello everyone. If you have been a frequent visitor to this site you may have noticed that new content has been…well let’s say sporadic. Inconsistent is another way to put it. Non-existent might be more accurate. But let’s not quibble [...]
The Collected Edition is a comic book podcast hosted by Paul Matthew Carr and Brian Reese. These are some recent episodes we think you will enjoy [...]
The Mummy from 1932 is a classic. A flawed classic for sure, but a classic nonetheless. There are parts of this film that are truly brilliant and there are parts that are…well…not [...]
An invisible man must be one of the more bizarre choices for a monster. First of all it’s not really a monster, not in the classical sense anyway. He is, after all, just a man. A deranged man, sure, but just a man nonetheless [...]
Tod Browning’s 1931 adaptation of Dracula is the granddaddy of them all, the film the launched the Classic Monster films of Universal. The Universal cinematic universe if you will [...]
Blogs & FeaturesPaul Matthew Carr2025-04-06T14:21:27-06:00
