Fans have had 20 years to practice emulating their favorite characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Yes, as we celebrate all that is one of the best things to spawn from the mind of Tim Burton, we also celebrate the fans who’ve taken the time and energy to put together Read More

Since I had so many videos this year, I thought I’d split the list in two. For this section, I’ve included a few videos I shot at Nerdapalooza this year. I’ve also decided to include semi-related videos / songs that are a little bit outside of the normal Halloween vein. Read More

Happy Halloween! I was busy Sunday night and didn’t get to write this out, and then sat on Monday with my roommate catching up on The Walking Dead in the background. I debated who to do this week since it was a holiday, but my debates all circled back to what I’d already had Read More

If you have never read the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, you should. They were a childhood reading staple like Goosebumps, which I considered writing about. But those books didn’t creep me out quite as much as Alvin Schwartz’s. I still have the Scary Stories books on Read More

Some fans of Nightmare Before Christmas couldn’t even get tattoos when the movie came out. We were merely grade school kids with eyes as wide as Sally’s. Then 20 years passed and we were like, “Hell yeah! Our parents can’t stop us now.” Let’s take a look at some of Read More

So this year I thought I wasn’t even going to get up to thirteen tracks at first, but somehow over the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to accumulate even more than my usual thirteen. For that reason, I’ve decided to split the list into two parts, with some decidedly Read More

Cat Versus Human is an ongoing blog full of posts and comics from cartoonist Yasmine Surovec. Her second collection of cat-filled comic strips is Cat Vs Human: Another Dose of Catnip, and it released in stores this month. The publisher sent us a copy to pass along to you, and you Read More

It’s hard to imagine cakes as basic flat sheet cakes with basic rose designs when the art of baking has gotten as extreme as that couponing show on TLC. So it’s no surprise that one of the best subjects for the delightful desert and all its glory is The Nightmare Before Read More

I decided to end the Halloween crushes on a bloody note. I have a thing for vampires. Just not the sparkly teenage kind. I decided to go back to the first vampire I read about and got a crush on. Anne Rice changed up the world of vampires. She made them elegant and beautiful. She Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming days! Read More

NBC’s Dracula premiered Friday night after Grimm. The time slot of the show was well chosen — it reminds me of BBC’s Supernatural Saturdays. I have been interested in checking out the series since I heard about it — I brought it to your attention in an earlier article. I wasn’t Read More

The Pathfinder roleplaying game has spun off a whole series of fantasy novels, and Paizo Publishing has been great about sending us copies of the books to pass along to you. The newest release is no exception, and this week we have Pathfinder Tales: Stalking the Beast by Howard Read More