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Publishers abandon fight against Google book scanning.

AMC FearFest 2012 Schedule (tell it to sort alphabetically, for the full list). TCM’s horror movie schedule. Looks like Fright Night Part 2 will be airing on AMC on the 27th at 2 AM CST, for those that are interested.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Fright Night (1985).

Classic Gothic horror cinema show in Montreal.

Experience The Vampire Diaries’ twisting plot and many thrills in 10 episodes.

Guillermo del Toro Talks Frankenstein, Hulk And More./a>

Top 10 1980s Horror Movie Posters.

The Weekly Geek: Geeky Halloween Costumes.

31 Days of Horror: Carnival of Souls/Insidious.

A Beginner’s Guide To Italian Horror: Mario Bava on Blu-Ray.

Celebrate Halloween with ‘Lyndhurst After Dark’.

How It Should Have Ended: The Amazing Spider-Man Bonus Scene.

First full image of Captain Hook in Once Upon A Time.

The Wizard of Oz is getting a 3D re-release.

Looking back at Young Sherlock Holmes.

Did Tru Calling deserve to be axed?

Life Outside The TARDIS: The Classic Companions’ Best Roles.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Elisabeth Sladen.

Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: The Time Lords.

Power Corrupts: 10 Omnipotent Characters That Went Too Far.

Six Developments From Avengers vs. X-Men #12.

An excerpt of Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics, The Untold Story.

IDW announces Mars Attacks the Real Ghostbusters.

Ellen Greene joins the cast of Hannibal.

Ally Sheedy returns for the musical episode of Psych.

The History of Lois Lane – Part 2: TV, Cartoons and Everything Else Leading to 'Man of Steel'.

As the showing of Rifftrax Live: Birdemic approaches, Boing Boing interviews Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, and Michael J. Nelson.

Ten Worst One-Liners From Batman And Robin. Oh, the pain.

Batman Hates Bronies.

Honest Trailers—The Dark Knight.

27 Of The Most Insane Martial Arts Battles Ever Filmed.

Star Wars, Gremlins, And Indiana Jones By Patrick Schoenmaker.

Should Filmmakers Explain Their Movies?

Red Dwarf: a beginner’s guide.

Robot Chicken: Cast Away Reboot.

The 32 Greatest Unscripted Movie Scenes.

Gateways To Geekery: Where to start with Tales From Earthsea author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #129: Vamp (1986), Stake Land (2010), and Interview With The Vampire (1994).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 268: Night Fright.

Torrent sites go offline as police raid alleged copyright infringers.

Pirate Bay Will Be Back ‘Soon.’

Halloween On TV: 215 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes And Specials In October 2012. As it is always being updated, I suggest you check back every couple of days.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: 80’s Rerun: Fright Night.

What’s Your Favorite Horror Movie (or television special) Intended For Children? What was your first horror movie?

Coffin Halloween/Birthday Cake.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: First Class (2011), Part One.

Danny Strong has been picked to script the final Hunger Games movies. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

Great Geeky Pumpkin Template Contest 2012.

Superman: Man of Steel Mural.

Mark Valley voices Superman in The Dark Knight Returns—Part 2.

Boostlethon Winter 2012: The Rules.

When We First Met—When Did The Legion Flight Ring Debut? Plus More Legion of Superheroes Firsts.

Ignore The Rumors—Mockingbird Lane Is Not Dead.

First Character Details Surface For Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D.

SFX interviewed John de Lancie.

John August On The Dark Shadows Movie That Never Was.

How To Survive New York Comic Con In 12 Easy Steps.

What’s Changed In The Flash’s Origin?

Even Star Trek Knows That Time Warner Cable Is So Very Terrible.

Once Upon A Time Friending Meme.

Worldcon 2012: Neil Gaiman Talks The Sandman Prequel.

10 Silliest Frankenstein Spoofs.

The Lone Ranger Poster Revealed.

Cross The Streams Radio Show: Episode 27.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 78: Silver Bullet (1985).

Terror Transmission, Episode 77: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Tony Scott has passed away, at the age of 68, following him jumping from a bridge. It looks like he had recently been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Condolences to his family, and may he rest in peace. He co-produced Prometheus, and helped make films such as The Hunger, Days of Thunder, and many others. He produced the forthcoming miniseries Coma, along with working on the tv series Numb3rs. David Krumholtz posts his remembrance of the man.

William Windom has passed away, at the age of 88, due to congestive heart failure. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans will remember him from The Doomsday Machine as Commodore Matt Decker.

ETA: Phyllis Diller has passed away at the age of 95. May she rest in peace.

Best wishes to Marc Summers for a speedy recovery after his cab accident. He suffered some serious facial injuries.

Cantaloupe Outbreak Kills Two, Sickens 141 In U.S. A friend of Dad’s is one of those 141, and should be getting out of the hospital shortly after being stuck there a month.

Demonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues.

Possible Remnants Of Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found.

Marvel Promotes Lauren Sankovitch To Editor.

Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity.

8 Of The Scariest Horror Movies Made For Kids. I’m happy to see that someone else out there remembers Pinocchio And The Emperor Of The Night.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Justice League…Antarctica?

Teaser Trailer For Asylum of the Daleks.

From Cracked: 4 Reasons Gremlins Are The Deadliest Movie Monster Ever.

Also from Cracked: The 6 Most Baffling PSAs Starring Famous Superheroes.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Ghostbreakers.

Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on The Terminator.

The 2012 DCU Fic/Art Halloween Challenge.

Bruce Campbell Has Seen The Evil Dead Remake.

James Gunn In Talks To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

The Hub adds Superman: The Animated Series, Sliders, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys to their schedule.

After Man of Steel, Which DC Comics Movie Will Warner Bros. Make Next?

Godzilla vs. Kincade.

Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary Art.

Alternative authors’ version of Lord of the Rings.

ABC is developing the steampunk adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Yes, really.

Warner Bros is offering single night screenings of The Dark Knight Returns in a New York theater before it comes to DVD and Blu-Ray.

From Think Geek: Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

A deleted scene from The Avengers.

Deconstructing the Complete And Utter Insanity Of Batman: Odyssey, Part 1 Part 2. Hysterical.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #138: Hell Squad (1985)

Schlock Treatment 89: Starcrash (1978)

Sofa Dogs Podcast: The Lost Boys (1987) Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze (1975).

Behold the list of eligible fandoms and characters for Yuletide. For those that want a document of the fandoms, you can go to this entry. Sign-ups will be opening soon. Uncategorized fandoms and notes on sign-ups.

The man who stole a collection of memorabilia from Superman fan Mike Meyer received a sentence of six years in prison.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Giganta.

From Tor: 6 Science Fiction Icons Who Hung Out With The Muppets.

The Halloween costume contest winner at GB Fans has been announced. That is an incredible Samhain costume.

First trailer for that other Snow White movie, called Mirror Mirror—the one starring Julia Roberts as the evil queen. The Charlize Theron version is looking better and better, even if I’d like to switch the actresses playing Snow White.

The Top 10 Moments In Once More, With Feeling. whedonesque discusses it here.

Chris Claremont is donating his archives to Columbia University’s Rare Book And Manuscript Library.

10 Great Fictional Bosses.

TARDIS Refrigerator. So long as Zuul or the Master don’t move in behind the leftovers, you’re good to go.

What would Bruce Wayne’s medical report look like?

wish_list is open for business. I’ll try to come up with something later.

American Horror Story was renewed for a second season. whedonesque discusses it here.

10 Great Horror Comics, From the Golden Age To Now.

From Tor: 10 Reasons Why Ghostbusters Has Such An Enduring Legacy.

New pictures from the set of The Hobbit, along with a full set report.

A couple of people chose to celebrate their Halloween as Ghostbusters characters: Vinz Clortho the Keymaster, and Zuul the Gatekeeper. Very nice.

Top 31 Horror Comedies. I would add High Spirits, but that’s really more of a personal preference. Plus, Big Trouble In Little China, and Saturday the 14th.

Jezebel lists The Best Halloween Specials Ever. Including the Garfield Halloween Special, Halloween Is Grinch Night, Marc Summers’ Magical Mystery Tour, The Worst Witch, that episode of Salute Your Shorts with Zeke The Plumber, Buffy’s Fear Itself, and many others.

In the end, we had a grand total of 9 trick-or-treaters last night, with the final three popping in around 7:30 PM. They forgot to wear costumes. So the only costumes I spotted last night were a little boy that was Satan, and a little girl that was a Crayola crayon.

Original art auctions will benefit Steve Niles’ sick dog.

Syfy Films is planning to adapt George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards.

From Geeks of Doom: 13 Comic Book To Haunt Your Halloween. 13 Movies To Haunt Your Halloween.

The Multifandom Horror Comment Meme for Writers and Artists.

Promo for the next episode of Merlin.

Courtesy of Comic Alliance linking to it, you can watch the Tomb of Dracula anime.

From the AV Club: 21 Plus Unexpectedly Scary Episodes Of Not Scary Shows. Doctor Who’s Blink makes the list.

It’s Insanejournal’s 10th anniversary.

Timothy Dalton, David Tennant, John Simm, Freema Agyeman, Billie Piper, Catherine Tate, Bernard Cribbins, the late Elisabeth Sladen, John Barrowman, and everyone else on the cast and crew sing along to I Would Walk 500 Miles while on the set of The End of Time. Even the Adipose pop in for a visit—you get to see an Ood dance, too.

Sung by John Barrowman, here’s The Ballad of Russell and Julie, from the wrap party of David Tennant’s tenure as the Doctor.

How to make your own Vigo the Carpathian using Xbox Kinect.

Halloween Shows.Net has Bride of Boogedy for viewing. I’ll be watching it, along with Mr. Boogedy, a bit later.

10 MST3K Episodes to Watch On Halloween

CNN reports that one of Bram Stoker's writing journals has been unearthed.

This month for Halloween, I have now watched for the first time: Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies 2, Warlock, Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, The Omen (original), Poltergeist, Silver Bullet, The Lost Boys, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, The Changeling (1980), Ghost Story (from 1981), House (from 1986), and House II: The Second Story.

I didn’t post about the Zombie Walk. It didn’t take more than 5 minutes for everyone to pass on by. There was a Zombie Chef, two Zombie Ghostbusters, a Zombie Batman and Catwoman, and about 200 others. Including someone’s little Pug puppy, with fake blood on its back. Yesterday, I went to see The Lost Boys—aside from a few technical difficulties (and a grand total of 7 people were there, counting us) that made it a couple minutes late in starting, it went nicely.

ETA: Forgot to add the Bram Stoker news, so that's added now.

LJ claims the security hole was just a cache issue that lasted a few minutes, contrary to what everyone else has experienced. In an odd moment of madness and a desperate need for tokens—after reading the dw_news post about it, I entered their Halloween sweepstakes for 10,000 tokens. I know I’ll never win, but hey. Why not?

yuletide fandom nominations will open soon.

Cry Baby Lane—the movie that disappeared for a decade because Nickelodeon deemed it too scary, until a Reddit user unearthed it—will air in Teen Nick’s The 90’s Are All That block. This will mark the second (and third) time it has been seen in 11 years. 11 PM CST, Halloween night, I’ve got to tape this one. It airs from 11 PM, to 12:30 AM, and then they show it once more from 1 AM, to 2:30 AM.

First impressions of NBC’s Grimm pilot.

Synopsis and a few possible spoilers (if the movie gets made) for the rumored remake of The Evil Dead.

From After Elton: Die Laughing: 50+ of the Most Hilarious Horror Movies.

Steampunk Pumpkins.

The United States of Things Coming To Get Us. Zombies for Kentucky, Cthulhu for Tennessee.

Ghostbusters Wedding Cake. Impressive.

Tim Burton’s version of Dark Shadows includes Alice Cooper—he will be playing himself. I thought I had already posted about it before, but I only posted that he was in it, not the role.

There’s a major security bug in the latest code release for LJ, which puts personal information at risk, by bouncing people to other accounts, in addition to issues like being able to view content that should be locked from you. As of yet, I haven’t run into anything strange.

The rules of surviving a horror movie.

October 31st isn’t just Halloween—it’s Undead Pride Day.

From Newsarama: 10 Worst Comic Book Live Action TV Series Of All Time. I liked Swamp Thing: The Series. Then again, I was 10 at the time. I also watched Lois and Clark, but bailed at some point around either the lizard clone thing or the Kryptonians in need of help.

Watch a Halloween episode of the animated Addams Family series from 1992.

During this year’s Children in Need, the BBC will air a sneak peek of Doctor Who’s Christmas special.

Sylvester McCoy talks a little bit about his role as Radagast.

From Cracked: The 6 Creepiest Things Discovered By New Homeowners.

The amusing course list for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

I have 15 Dreamwidth invites if anyone would like one.

Tor’s staff picks for All Hallow’s Read.

Now that Batman: Arkham City is out, Mark Hamill has retired from voicing the Joker.

The best moments from the Scream Awards. It includes George Lucas and Darth Vader onstage—more footage than I linked to in the Geeks of Doom post. I have yet to see any footage floating around of Matt Smith accepting his award.

Misfits may be getting an American remake, from the producer of Gossip Girl. While I’ve never seen the UK version, I know this is a terrible idea.

How It Should Have Ended takes on Ghostbusters.

Rifftrax has provided more information about their Halloween plans—their online Halloween double feature has moved to October 27th.

From Newsarama: 10 Worst Comic Book Animated Series of All Time.

Stan Lee will receive the Visual Effects Society 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Warner Bros. has greenlit the American version of Akira.

A 6 minute Dark Knight Rises prologue is attached to the screening of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Not even that would make me go anywhere near a Tom Cruise movie. I’ll just wait for it to hit the internet.

Halloween Shows.Net remembers Mr. Boogedy. As with yesterday’s Zeke the Plumber, you can view it on their website. Like all the copies I’ve found, this one is missing Michael Eisner’s intro. However, you can see what may be what I recall at the beginning of Bride of Boogedy.

I was reading about a UK show called The Fades. Is it worth watching? I’ve been looking to find another show to watch, since the only things I currently keep track of are Doctor Who (which won’t be back until the Christmas special) and Merlin. Any recommendations for any other shows? I gave Bedlam a shot, but didn’t care for it—ended up mocking it MST3K style with Mom. Tried and didn’t care for American Horror Story.

When Halloween 3 was released back in 1983, you could buy replicas of the masks that melted the faces of children. Had I been older than 2 at the time and known anything about the film, I might have wanted to buy one of those.

Neil Gaiman explains All Hallow’s Read. Here’s the page that discusses what books are appropriate for various ages.

oct31storg lists several Halloween specials that are available on Youtube here. The Haunted History of Halloween is one that I watch every year.

First trailer for The Raven.

Steven Moffat on the future of Doctor Who.

CliqueClack discusses the underestimated companions of Doctor Who. The list includes Rory, Donna, Jack, Mickey, and Harriet Jones.

Netflix scraps the Quikster plan.

Wonder Woman gets a new origin story after the relaunch. As of now, she wasn’t made from clay.

10 Awesome Places of Learning From Nerdy Fiction. I would have moved Xavier’s from the #6 slot to #1. I should think it would be a great place to learn, provided you survived the experience.

Pete Travis has been removed as director from the Judge Dredd reboot.

Livejournal has a planned site-wide maintenance for up to three hours today, beginning at 5:30 PM CST.

The latest Dimestore Dames entry is Starfire.

The Simpsons could be in serious trouble thanks to a contract dispute.

New character profiles for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

The Classic TV Database also has a Halloween related tv schedule—anything TV Tango’s list doesn’t cover, this should. This one includes channels such as Logo, USA, BBC America, and numerous others. Their post will be continually added to, so check back periodically.

NBC ordered full seasons for both Up All Night and Whitney. The Playboy Club is the first of the season to be cancelled.

A first look at Russell Crowe dressed as Jor-El outfit.

Beware The Batman is coming to Cartoon Network in 2013.

Disney announces more big screen re-releases.

Mutant and Proud: An X-Men Themed Feel-Good Meme.

10 Songs For Supervillains.

River Song’s chronology on Doctor Who, from River’s own point of view.

The final Doctor Who Confidential included a skit with the Eleventh Doctor and Einstein, written by the children of Oakley Junior School. You can watch Death Is The Only Answer here.

Kevin Sorbo suffered three strokes during his time on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. This explains why they had to film around him for several episodes, such as when he was transformed into a pig. It was always claimed he was a little ill, or a stunt had injured him. I’m amazed he continued with the show while still trying to recover.

10 Comics Worthy of an Arrested Development-Style Comeback.

Wired lists the top 10 Halloween movies for younger kids. The only thing on the list I don’t agree with is the inclusion of E.T., but that’s just because I truly despise the film.

Rogue harnesses a cat’s powers to get out of trouble.

A listing of all the theaters screening Ghostbusters in the month of October.

According to a small ad in a local newspaper, on October 18th Maiden Alley Cinema will be showing An American Werewolf In London. I can’t verify yet, as their site hasn’t been updated. If it airs at a good time, I’ll be going—never seen it before, always meant to. On October 28th is The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which I won’t be going to see. On the 29th is the Zombie Walk—no word yet as to what will be showing after that.

From College Humor: The X-Men Guide To Puberty.

Torchwood: Where Does The Series Go From Here?

Krang stomach tattoo.

Star Trek red shirt, complete with warning of imminent doom.

Filming of Doctor Who’s Christmas special has been disrupted by a 24 hour strike.

Two clips have been released for Doctor Who’s season finale. Clip 1 is here. Clip 2 is here.

Here is the schedule for AMC’s Fearfest 2011. The version of House of Wax that will air is the Paris Hilton version, and not the Vincent Price version. The Mummy is the Boris Karloff version. The version of The Hills Have Eyes is the remake. The version of The Omen is the 70's version.

WKYQ has begun to list the haunted houses in the area. So far, I know of two around here. One is in a part of town that I don’t want to be in after dark, so that’s out. The other (not listed, but I’ve seen the signs in various spots around town) is also out, since I went to it last year—had the misfortune of stepping in cow manure, and would rather not repeat the experience. The Industrial Slaughterhouse used to be called Oller’s Oddities—I can confirm they’re great, when they're closer I've tried to keep track of them. They’re too far out of the way for me this time, or I would be heading out there, but I highly recommend them for all your scaring needs if you happen to be in their area.

What horror fans should be thankful for.

The people behind the Paducah Zombie Walk uploaded their footage to Youtube. If anyone is interested, you can watch it here. Watch until the very end to get a good look at Zombie Bruce Campbell, complete with Boomstick on his back, and chainsaw on his hand.

Obscurus Lupa has posted the first part of a three part video review of She-Wolf of London here. This just makes me want to track down the whole series in time for next year’s Yuletide even more. It looks delightfully cheesy these days. As Obscurus Lupa said, it also looks as though Ian could have been the prototype for Giles.

This morning, the temperature was around 70 degrees. A thunderstorm passed through, and it went down to 42 degrees. It dropped that much in less than 30 minutes. It should drop a bit more by tonight.

Meanwhile, I see that I managed to miss the anniversary of my LJ. As of November 10th, I have been on LJ for 7 years.

Yuletide related: I seem to have pretty much all of my fanfic plotted out, and know how almost all of it should go, moment by moment. I downloaded the source material and I'll watch that in the next few minutes, just to make sure I have everyone's voices right. I'll get to work on the actual fanfic tomorrow. I've written snippets as the ideas come, and I just need to work it all together.

ETA: Given the character I'm focusing on has a bit of a tendency to free associate, he's probably going to be all over the map. That helps!