Category: horror

  • Book Review: Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk

    In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, nothing is what it seems. Something sinister lurks behind the scenes of everything ordinary. Homelessness, feng shui, those dolls you practice CPR on, talk shows; they’re not what they seem to be. It’s an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn’t wanna live there. That’s what makes Haunted – a collection…

  • Movie Review: The Omega Man

    Since Charleton Heston died recently, I decided to dig out one of his old movies, The Omega Man, from my collection of movies I bought then never opened. The movie is based on Richard Matheson’s novella I Am Legend, as long as you are pretty flexible with the term “based on.” It’s more like taking…

  • Ugly Egg Cake

    When I got back from studying in North Carolina for a few months, my awesome friends held a party to welcome me back. They also baked me a cake. It had an unusual shape; round, but tapering on one side more than the other. It was completely smooth and white. My friends insisted that I…