Saturday, October 12, 2024

Born on this day – Lester Dent:


Lester Dent


Writer

October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959

Credits:

The Man of Bronze (1933); The Land of Terror (1933); Quest of the Spider (1933); The Polar Treasure (1933); Pirate of the Pacific (1933); The Red Skull (1933); The Lost Oasis (1933); The Sargasso Ogre (1933); The Phantom City (1933); Brand of the Werewolf (1934); The Man Who Shook the Earth (1934); Meteor Menace (1934); The Monsters (1934); The Mystery on the Snow (1934); The Thousand-Headed Man (1934); The Squeaking Goblin (1934); Fear Cay (1934); Death in Silver (1934); The Sea Magician (1934); The Annihilist (1934); The Land of Always-Night (1935); The Spook Legion (aka The Ghost Legion) (1935); The Secret in the Sky (1935); The Roar Devil (1935); Spook Hole (1935); Dust of Death (1935); Murder Melody (1935); The Fantastic Island (1935); Murder Mirage (1936); Mystery Under the Sea (1936); The Metal Master (1936); The Men Who Smiled No More (1936); The Seven Agate Devils (1936); The Haunted Ocean (1936); The Black Spot (1936); The Midas Man (1936); Cold Death (1936); The South Pole Terror (1936); Resurrection Day (1936); The Vanisher (1936); Land of Long Juju (1937); The Derrick Devil (1937); The Mental Wizard (1937); Mad Eyes (1937); The Land of Fear (1937); The Feathered Octopus (1937); Repel (aka The Deadly Dwarf) (1937); The Golden Peril (1937); The Living-Fire Menace (1938); The Mountain Monster (1938); Devil on the Moon (1938); The Pirate's Ghost (1938); The Motion Menace (1938); The Submarine Mystery (1938); The Giggling Ghosts (1938); The Munitions Master (1938); Fortress of Solitude (1938); The Green Death (1938); The Devil Genghis (1938); Mad Mesa (1939); The Yellow Cloud (1939); The Freckled Shark (1939); World's Fair Goblin (1939); The Gold Ogre (1939); The Flaming Falcons (1939); Merchants of Disaster (1939); The Crimson Serpent (1939); Poison Island (1939); The Stone Man (1939); Hex (1939); The Dagger in the Sky (1939); The Other World (1939); The Angry Ghost (1940); The Spotted Men (1940); The Evil Gnome (1940); Tunnel Terror (1940); The Purple Dragon (1940); Devils of the Deep (1940); The Awful Dynasty (1940); The Men Vanished (1940); The Devil's Playground (1941); Bequest of Evil (1941); The Golden Man (1941); The Pink Lady (1941); The Headless Men (1941); The Green Eagle (1941); Mystery Island (1941); The Mindless Monsters (1941); Birds of Death (1941); The Invisible Box Murders (1941); Peril in the North (1941); The Rustling Death (1942); Men of Fear (1942); The Too-Wise Owl (1942); The Magic Forest (1942); Pirate Isle (1942); The Speaking Stone (1942); The Man Who Fell Up (1942); The Three Wild Men (1942); The Fiery Menace (1942); The Laugh of Death (1942); They Died Twice (1942); The Devil's Black Rock (1942); The Time Terror (1943); Waves of Death (1943); The Black, Black Witch (1943); The King of Terror (1943); The Talking Devil (1943); The Running Skeletons (1943); Mystery on Happy Bones (1943); The Mental Monster (1943); Hell Below (1943); The Goblins (1943); The Secret of the Su (1943); The Spook of Grandpa Eden (1943); According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic (1944); Death Had Yellow Eyes (1944); The Derelict of Skull Shoal (1944); The Whisker of Hercules (1944); The Three Devils (1944); The Pharaoh's Ghost (1944); The Man Who Was Scared (1944); The Shape of Terror (1944); Weird Valley (1944); Jiu San (1944); Satan Black (1944); The Lost Giant (1944); Violent Night (aka The Hate Genius) (1945); Strange Fish (1945); The Ten Ton Snakes (1945); Cargo Unknown (1945); Rock Sinister (1945); The Terrible Stork (1945); King Joe Cay (1945); The Wee Ones (1945); Terror Takes 7 (1945); The Thing That Pursued (1945); Trouble on Parade (1945); The Screaming Man (1945); Measures for a Coffin (1946); Terror and the Lonely Widow (1946); Five Fathoms Dead (1946); Death is a Round Black Spot (1946); Colors for Murder (1946); Fire and Ice (1946); Three Times a Corpse (1946); The Exploding Lake (1946); Death in Little Houses (1946); The Devil is Jones (1946); The Disappearing Lady (1946); Target for Death (1947); The Death Lady (1947); Danger Lies East (1947); No Light to Die By (1947); The Monkey Suit (1947); Let's Kill Ames (1947); Once Over Lightly (1947); I Died Yesterday (1948); The Pure Evil (1948); Terror Wears No Shoes (1948); The Angry Canary (1948); The Swooning Lady (1948); The Green Master (1949); Return From Cormoral (1949); Up From Earth's Center (1949); The Red Spider (1979); Dead at the Take-Off (1946); Lady to Kill (1947); Lady Afraid (1950); Cry at Dusk (1952); Lady in Peril (1959); Hades & Hocus Pocus (1979); Sinister Ray (1987); Honey in his Mouth (2009); Genius Jones (2015); Hell's Hoofprints: The Complete Western Trails Tales of Lester Dent (2009); Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent (2009); The Skull Squadron: The Air War Stories of Lester Dent (2009); Fists of Fury: The Adventures of Curt Flagg (2011); Terror, Inc.: The Weird Mysteries of Lent Dent (2013); Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales (2006); The Weird Adventures Of The Blond Adder (2010); Radio Western Adventures (2010); Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade (2012); Doc Savage: The Lost Radio Scripts Of Lester Dent (2007); Six Scarlet Scorpions (2016); Justice, Inc. (1939); The Yellow Hoard (1939); The Sky Walker (1939); The Devil's Horns (1939); The Frosted Death (1940); The Blood Ring (1940); Stockholders in Death (1940); The Glass Mountain (1940); Tuned for Murder (1940); The Smiling Dogs (1940); River of Ice (1940); The Flame Breathers (1940); Murder on Wheels (1940); Three Gold Crowns (1941); House of Death (1941); The Hate Master (1941); Nevlo (1941); Death in Slow Motion (1941); Pictures of Death (1941); The Green Killer (1942); The Happy Killers (1942); The Black Death (1942); The Wilder Curse (1942); Midnight Murder (1942); The Man From Atlantis (1974); Red Moon (1974); The Purple Zombie (1974); Dr. Time (1974); The Nightwitch Devil (1974); Black Chariots (1974); The Cartoon Crimes (1974); The Blood Countess (1975); The Death Machine (1975); The Glass Man (1975); The Iron Skull (1975); Demon Island (1975); Roaring Heart of the Crucible (2013); Python Isle (1991); White Eyes (1992); The Frightened Fish (1992); The Jade Ogre (1992); Flight into Fear (1993); The Whistling Wraith (1993); The Forgotten Realm (1993); The Desert Demons (2011); Horror in Gold (2011); The Infernal Buddha (2012); Death's Dark Domain (2012); The Miracle Menace (2013); Skull Island (2013); Phantom Lagoon (2013); The War Makers (2014); The Ice Genius (2014); The Sinister Shadow (2015); The Secret of Satan's Spine (2015); Glare of the Gorgon (2016); Empire of Doom (2017); Mr. Calamity (2018); Famous Fantastic Mysteries (2017); Black Mask (2017); Thrilling Adventure Yarns (2019); Miami Noir (2020).

Born on this day – Josephine Hutchinson:


Josephine Hutchinson

Actress

October 12, 1903 – June 4, 1998

Born on this day – William Nigh:


William Nigh

Director

Writer

Actor

October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955

Recommended reading - The Fall of the House of Usher (2023):


The Fall of the House of Usher

And Other Stories That Inspired the Netflix Series
By Edgar Allan Poe.
Foreword by Mike Flanagan.

Published by Random House Worlds.
Media TV tie-in edition.
Published 2023.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0593725255
ISBN-13: 978-0593725252

Description:

A deluxe anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, curated by series creator Mike Flanagan.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart – an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it – I paused to think – what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?

Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix’s reimagining of the mansion of doom in this anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. From well-loved classics like The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart to lesser-known gems such as Tamerlane and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, these collected tales have withstood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years.

With a foreword by series creator and horror maverick Mike Flanagan, this anthology is the perfect viewer’s companion to Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher.

Julia Alvarez, on books:


A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

– Julia Alvarez.

Friday, October 11, 2024

On this day in movie history - 5 - 25 - 77 (2022):


5 - 25 - 77

directed and written by Patrick Read Johnson,
was released in the United States on October 11, 2022.
Music by David E. Russo.


Cast:

John Francis Daley, Austin Pendleton, Colleen Camp, Neil Flynn, Steve Coulter, Emmi Chen, Katie Jeep, Justin Mentell, Gwen Kmiec, Mark Lorenz, Christopher McLinden, Caitlin Barlow, Ema Tuennerman, Eddie Kunz, Eric Miles, Tim Beringer, Yasmin Golan, William Holmes, Michael Pawlak, Kevin J. Stephens, Courtney Bean, Darlene Benigno, Zach Criswell, Tony Farella, Sean Gillette, J. Spencer Greene, Kevin Scott Greer, Nicholas Joseph Harden, Michelle Higgins, Elizabeth Hipwell, Scott Holmes, Rick Ingalsbe, Theophilus Jamal, Coady Johnson, Merrick Johnson, Patrick Read Johnson, Gunner Jones, Jordan Keller, Caitlin Kennedy, Al Leinonen, Adam Leiphart, Jocelyn Levin, Mike Markoff, Paul Mifflin, Alyssa N. Miles, Evan Muday, Diane Perry, Sam Raysby, Adam Shalzi, David Shin, Daniel Robert Smith, Dan Tomei, Matt Ukena, Michael K. Washko, Brooke Wilhelm, James Zahn, Allison Belmont, Rich Denikas, Nathan Geist, Derek F. Mahr, Jon Marshall, Michael P. Noens, Ron Valdez, Darryl Villacorta, Jaclyn Watt, Jocelyn Wesler.

On this day in music history - The Cinder Notes, by Amy Lauren (2019):

The album The Cinder Notes,
by Amy Lauren,
was released on October 11, 2019.