Michael R. Clark (Page 2)

Shambling Mound Portrait

I was coloring with my kids the other day and decided to sketch out a shambling mound. I was pleased with the result. It's a wonder what a big box of Crayolas can do, even when you're (ahem) 40.

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Proposed Sequels to "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"

1. Mohandas Gandhi: Werewolf Destroyer 2. Martin Luther King, Jr: Witch Slayer 3. John Lennon: Demon Butcher 4. Mother Theresa vs. Godzilla 5. Nelson Mandela: Giant Spider Exterminator 6. Walt Whitman: Zombie Decapitator 7. Will Rogers: Subterranean Mutant Assassin 8. Norman Rockwell: Mummy Executioner 9. Carl Sagan: Alien Disemboweler 10.

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Names Rejected by Expert Meteorologists Before Settling on “Frankenstorm”

1. Count Stormula 2. Storm-Ho-Tep, The Mummy 3. Stormzilla 4. The Storm from the Black Lagoon 5. Stormibal Lecter 6. Storm Vader 7. Phanstorm of the Opera 8. An American Werestorm in London 9. The Storming Dead 10. The Storm-Puft Marshmallow Man

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The Grenadier Beholder Project Part II

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The Grenadier Beholder Project

So I remember studying the many images of that beloved original D&D monster, the beholder, from the first edition Monster Manual, various modules, and especially this one from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album (lovingly described by Blizack on Dungeonskull Mountain a few years back): I also

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Heritage Treasure Trove, Part 1

Miniatures

Shout-out For the Reaper Bones Kickstarter

Reaper's Kickstarter Page This is an incredible deal...and an exciting new way to do business. I pledged my "Vampire" level and the rewards look amazing.

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Breaking Out the Brushes Again...and a Heritage Goldmine on eBay

Howdy y'all. I'm back from a restful summer to begin my fifth year teaching in Singapore. Hard to believe my kids have been expats for most of their lives... Anyway, I've not updated this here blog as much as I've meant to,

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Working Daylight Out Of the Body: The Brain With Feet

Here's a piece I wrote for my other blog, which is part of my Creative Writing class. Working Daylight Out Of the Body: The Brain With Feet. A little piece about the Intellect Devourer...

Books

Ecce oculus: Behold the Eye

I don't know what specific circle of Dork Nirvana I entered today. As my friend Doug would say, "you're embarrassing yourself." But here goes... Confession: I built a beholder out of my kids' Legos. (Sorry, Lego Bricks.) It's a first version,

Pop Culture

Neato Coolville: YOU BETTER TAKE YOUR MONSTER VITAMINS

Neato Coolville: YOU BETTER TAKE YOUR MONSTER VITAMINS. Somtimes I think that the Internet is, truly, the collective culmination of our wildest science-fiction daydreams. Truly, the most esoteric crap you even have a faint inkling of after many years of brain-damaging education can be found in the stroke of a

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Beware the Jabberwocky (sic), My Son

All right, so my son got Tim Burton's half-baked Alice In Wonderland for his birthday. He loves it, which isn't surprising (he loved Bee Movie and The Smurfs too). What I can't believe that this movie actually got made--it seems to have one line

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Mayzie Approved: Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls

It's been a banner week here in the Vistas. I got a shout-out and a link from one of my favorite new blogs, Kindertrauma, in their Traumafessions section, with a sweet video of the Toht melt-face from Raiders of the Lost Ark. And tonight, when my daughter Mayzie

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Some Madness With That Big Bite?

I found this picture on Kindertrauma, my new favorite blog. If you wanted a visual depiction of the scariest possible thing I could have imagined as a ten-year-old, it's this, from an '80s video nasty called Madman. I remember renting it with my friend Jeff at 7-11

Myth and Folklore

Charlie Approved: Safari Ltd. Mythical Realms Toys

So I'm back at the ranch here, after a long summer of travel. I'm back to work, too, and during my Creative Writing class I was reminiscing about "Ghostly Sounds" and played the track from this here blog. Which reminded me that I needed

Books

New Addition to the Library

Picked up a copy of this at Borders Singapore for the kids this weekend. I am impressed by the art--all full color, and an illustration for almost every entry. Some are the predictable artifacts and classical paintings, but most are original and very well done. My son particularly likes the

Sound Recordings

Another Great Halloween Record

Scar Stuff: Wade Denning "Famous Ghost Stories With Scary Sounds" (Pickwick, SPC-5146, 1975). I remember this one had a terrifying version of "The Telltale Heart." "The Haunted Gold Mine" was another favorite. And check out the simple, yet effective, cover art.

Album Art

The Scariest Damn Thing

Download 03-the-moon-is-a-circle-of-ghosts.mp3 MONSTER SHINDIG: Ghostly Sounds - 1975. I went looking for an image of this album cover (remember those?) because I wanted to see if I could find some of the scariest monster images I could remember. This illustration (by the tragically named George Peed) was on a

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I Pulled the Trigger

OTHERWORLD | Home Page. My first blog is a quick one...I just put in an order for a bunch of Otherworld Minis, which seem to have been growing silently and steadily since I first started web-stalking them a year ago. I brought my paints and whatnot back to Singapore with