I was link hopping and ran across a great online gallery of horror art . Spookyart.com is a showcase of horror cover art and other visions...

Thanks to Slate's pulp fiction emphasis, I discovered The Poe Shadow in an excellent essay by Christopher Benfey . It's an attempt...

10. You've ordered a fleet of Jeep Compasses from your local dealership. 9. You've put on 15 pounds drinking Sprites. 8. You'...

I'm really starting to enjoy The Lost Experience game. The flurry of clues and new online content this week really served to expand the...

I have really been enjoying the audiobook version of Lisa Scottoline's Dirty Blond . It's a page-turner for the ear, narrated by Bar...

I realized over the last few days I've now been influenced by podcast ads. That's not a major life milestone, but it is sort of an i...

Yesterday was a big news day for iPod video users. Several Fox series rolled out on iTunes including 24 and Prison Break , as well as Fire...

I'm a little sorry to see headlines mourning Tom Cruise's diminished box office for Mission: Impossible 3. Despite his extracurricu...

(Apparently I wasn't the only one watching online. ABC.com was overloaded yesterday . ABC.com's streaming of its shows this month ce...

A press release on TheTailsection.com reveals that the official Hanso Foundation site is back online. It's souped up quite a bit and as ...

I used to get phone calls from an elderly man in a nursing home. They came to my desk when I was reporter, though someone had told him I wro...

I wrote this a while back for epinions. I’ve discovered the movies I enjoy best these days are those that keep me a little perplexed about...

One of the most valuable online writing tools I've found is The Visual Thesarus . I think I read about it in a writer's magazine, ot...

In an interview on This is Audible , Campbell Scott mentioned recently that the masterful filmmaker Akira Kurosawa at 80 said something li...

Budget limitations on the early Doctor Who shows meant rubber suits and occasionally wobbly sets. For anyone who ever failed to get past th...

I think I'm a grup. I've always known I'm a bit un-grown up for my age, but I didn't know I was part of a cultural phenomen...

Pigalina mentions in a comment below that there is a petition urging NBC to renew "Surface" for a second season. I thought I woul...

I had a devilishly fun time writing The Mantus Files , a horror graphic novel about an investigator of the paranormal. Though the title migh...

I find Podshock , which I've mentioned here before, to be one of the most addictive listening options out there. Each week it's a so...

I've decided NBC's Surface got a bad rap from critics somewhat undeservedly. It's the story of a group of strange, unidentified...