The Truth About Zombies
My name is Erin and I am not a zombie, though my boyfriend, the gangster, Ryu, and the ghoul, Clément, tried to make one of me. They nearly succeeded, too, but Clément blew it—as he usually does—and although I no longer speak, appear to be totally apathetic, and exhibit other zombie-like behaviors, I was not really “made” in the traditional sense. I still have my will. If you read the official accounts, you’ll find that Erin Orison, the talented and rebellious only daughter of American ambassador,...What’s in a Zombi...
“On her tray was a single tall blue drink. I peered through the crowd in the direction that she’d pointed a skeletal thumb and saw the guy she was talking about looking back over his shoulder at me with a big grin on his face. One of his front teeth was missing, a little black door...
White Zombie: The Movie
Ah, Béla, Béla from Lugos—the Hungarian actor from a little town outside the western border of Transylvania, who made a big splash in Hollywood as Count Dracula in the 1931 movie, starred as Murder Legendre, the Haitian voodoo master in control of a crew of zombies, in White Zombie the...
4. Pachinko Palace (3)
It was a dance, a tango over ice in a midnight-blue sea. In this, as in many things, Ryu was an artist, his satisfaction apparent in the performance of the act. Ryu used various methods to take his partners to the very brink of annihilation and drown them in sweltering salvation. “Ryu,...
Looking at Lovecraft
“Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.” —H.P. Lovecraft, “Beyond The Wall of Sleep” Maybe it was the “night gaunts”...
Real Live Zombies
This zombie story is real: the hunt for a zombie “formula” that takes a young ethnobotanist to Haiti. This is the very formula that Clément was after and the reason he, too, went to Haiti. The young ethnobotanist, who was fascinated by psychoactive drugs, advanced the...
Grave Stuff on Sunday
You can tune in to hear bits an pieces of dark, dead stuff, including some cool DEAD LOVE cuts, flying around on Sunday, March 28 and 12-2PM (PST) on Lilycat on Stuff. Featuring zombie-ninja writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin on Zombie Erin and the Dark Slice Call in by Cartoonist – Keith...
Tokio Hotel: Love is De...
Wir lieben sie. Ja, Tokio Hotel. Identical twin brothers, vocalist Bill Kaulitz and guitarist Tom Kaulitz, met drummer Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist Georg Listing in 2001 in a Magdeburg club, where Bill and Tom Kaulitz were performing. First they were called Devilish, which is a...