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Next Year In Yuletide. Some people (like me) are already planning what they’ll nominate next year. I’m making a note to nominate the Fred Saberhagen Dracula novels.

In relation to this year’s Yuletide, I’ve just finished signing up—fandoms I’ve offered are: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Pushing Daisies, Ghostbusters, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Addams Family (1991)—with the fandoms tossed into the bucket section being Last Unicorn (1982), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), Soapdish (1991), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996, Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman.

I threw out Cabin in the Woods, since I wasn’t sure how well I’d be able to write for that one. If it turns out that I enjoy the pilot for Mockingbird Lane, then I’ll edit that in if I’m able.

‘Six strikes’ system goes live this fall, appeals to cost $35.

Paypal Slips ‘No Class Action’ Clause Into Policy Update.

Newsweek to cease print publication.

Penguin To Publish Kids Graphic Novel Line.

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween on TV: 405 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Double Your J-Horror Comedy With X-Cross.

Longbox of the Damned: Vincent Price Presents #3.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.

Meta Slashers: A Retrospective.

Traveling Halloween Museum.

16 Strange, Weird, And Wonderful Halloween Decorations.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1992: The Three Stooges Fright Night.

Figures & Speech: Toys of Terror—The Ten Scariest Action Figures Ever.

Is Sam Raimi Really Going To Direct The Poltergeist Remake? No, he is not.

Ghostbusters 3 To Start Shooting In 2013, Bill Murray Out. We’ll see if this turns out to be true, or yet another rumor making the rounds.

Brian De Palma Gives Blessing On Carrie Remake.

The Great Stephen King Reread: Carrie.

31 Days Of Horror: Christine/Carrie.

6 Filmmaking Tips From John Carpenter.

The Official Italian Teaser Trailer For Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D.

The Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time.

Horror Europa With Mark Gatiss.

Stunning Nightmare Before Christmas Cake.

10 Great Jump Scares In Horror.

‘I Believe You Said You Wanted More?’ It’s a Little Mermaid/Doctor Who fan art.

8 Highlights From Doctor Who’s Peter Davison at NYCC.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Trailer.

Lego Batman: The Movie—DC Superheroes Unite Trailer.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Batman Beyond

Bela Lugosi: Age 18.

Revisiting Torchwood: first impressions.

Warner Brothers wins court ruling in rights to Superman case. Shuster Estate Set To Appeal Court Ruling. The Legal View: What the Shuster ruling means.

George Takei will guest star in an episode of Hawaii Five-0.

New artwork for Hannibal.

The Line It Is Drawn #111—Comic Book Characters and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Characters.

Animal Practice cancelled.

Jack The Giant Killer Gets Moved Up Three Weeks And A New Title. They’ve changed the word Killer to Slayer.

J.R.R. Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit.

Heathcliff will get a CGI update.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #55-51.

The 10 Most Defining Performances In The History of Genre Television.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 56: Lifeforce (1985) Commentary

The F This Movie Podcast: The Others (2001).

The Arrow In The Head Podcast: Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1985)

Weinberg’s House of Horrors Podcast, Episode 9: Horror Movies Of The 1980’s.

Mission Log Podcast #11: Episode 11: The Corbomite Maneuver.

Set Your Beverage of Choice Down On These Geek Coasters.

How X-Men: Days of Future Past Movie Could Work.

NBC Announces Premiere Dates For Grimm And Revolution.

Community Season 4 Premiere Date Set.

Victorian Cthulhu fonts revived (again).

The Carrie Remake Adds Two: Portia Doubleday and Judy Greer.

Moretz: Carrie Remake Has A Black Swan Quality To It.

Image of the Day: Indiana Jones and the (fake) Ark of the Covenant.

R2-Meat 2

Can these US remakes of UK TV shows work?

Elementary: Meet Holmes And Watson.

Trailer 2 for The Hobbit finished and coming soon.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Every Movie And Then Some.

Prometheus in Fifteen Minutes.

From Cracked: The 5 Creepiest Ways To Immortalize Yourself.

IDW’s Ghostbusters: Inside Look.

Prometheus and Prequels: Stan Lee’s Rant.

Stan Lee settles POW! Entertainment legal feud.

Stefan Tosheff’s X-Men Redesign.

A Brief (And Insane) History Of Batman’s Newest Foe. There are spoilers for this week’s Batman #10.

The Stephen King Universe Flow Chart.

An update on the Bones situation.

American Horror Story Season 2 Adds Skins Star.

Star Trek Sulu Pour Homme Excelsior Cologne.

Ray Bradbury Predictions Fulfilled Infographic.

Why you should give Falling Skies another chance.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #371.

Justice League—Fake Movie Trailer.

Terror Transmission Episode 70: Messiah of Evil (1973).

Jean Giraud has passed away, following an illness, at the age of 74. May he rest in peace. He worked on the Silver Surfer comic in the 80’s. He also did production/concept design for Willow, The Fifth Element, Masters of the Universe, Tron, Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland, The Abyss, and Alien.

The new look of Dropbox.

Amy Reeder exits Batwoman over creative differences, and Trevor McCarthy takes over.

Gnu Books (in Ontario) is shutting down, and the remaining books and comics are being cleaned out of the store at $1 each.

New promo for Mirror Mirror. Oddly creative.

Two new images from The Cabin In The Woods. A very special message from Joss Whedon. whedonesque has a round-up of reviews for the film.

Chocolate Cthulhu Idol.

Robocop now has a release date: August 9th, 2013.

From Newsarama: The 10 Best Alternate Realities: Age of Apocalypse And More. Buffy’s Doppelgangland and Star Trek’s Mirror Mirror are included.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: An Anatomy of a Show.

Fearnet interviews Lost Girl’s Ksenia Solo.

George Takei’s happy dance.

The Ghostbusters PDF eBook Preservation Project has now added a 1984 issue of Starburst that had several articles on the film.

The All-Time Craziest “Thing Of The Week” Formulas From Science Fiction And Fantasy TV Shows.

Alex Winter discusses the state of the Bill and Ted 3 script.

Cthulhu Christmas Tree.

Portal Christmas Tree.

More plot details for the pilot for The Munsters.

Mattel unveils new Masters of the Universe art for the 30th anniversary.

Alan Taylor will be directing Thor 2, taking over for Patty Jenkins.

George Takei’s Greatest And Weirdest Moments.

fandom_stocking will begin unscreening comments on January 6th, so you have until then to stuff the stockings you need to.

7 Things Patrick Stewart’s Presence Could Not Save (That Had Nothing To Do With Star Trek). I liked Robin Hood: Men In Tights.

Unused footage from The Dark Knight includes a few new Joker moments.

Gary Oldman on The Dark Knight Rises, and what he’ll miss about playing Commissioner Gordon.

There will be a new Killer Klowns From Outer Space movie in 2012—it will be a strange hybrid of remake and sequel.

In other news, I located a great copy of Fright Night Part 2, where I can actually see everything clearly. Unlike every other copy, it’s not pitch black and murky. It’s a rip from a fantastic HD airing on a now defunct channel, from what I can determine. I’ve also located a copy of DVD Delirium Volume 1: Redux, so that should be here by about mid-January. So I can mark those two off my list to track down.

Something that wasn’t on my list, but was nice to stumble across--finally locating a copy of The Giant of Thunder Mountain. Having now watched it for the first time since 1990, I can’t see why I would have liked it even vaguely back then, since I loathed uplifting movies. Dreadfully dull, but at least I've watched it as an adult.