Deadpan Flook and The Blog Of Stuff!

  Halloween 2024 is almost upon us, and so it's time to blow the cobwebs off the blog and get ready for this year's Countdown to Halloween! As always, I'll be joining a bunch of bloggers wh...

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 Well, after all the crappy things that happened to me before the last update, I also managed to get another dose of Covid right before Christmas, which meant having to stop my H-Pylori treatmen...

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 Hi everyone....this is really just a message for anyone who was expecting posts for Creepmas as I stated at the end of my Countdown to Halloween run that I was planning on posting for the first...

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  Almost forgot to mention that the latest issue of the Halloween comic my brother puts together every year is available to download now!  This year he made a paper-mache monster to use f...

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  Made it back to the parents, where there has apparently already been 20 trick-or-treaters / guisers…..not bad for a village that only has about 50 houses! Above is the window with res...

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  Castlevania - Lord of Shadows (Xbox 360) Over the years, I’ve obviously covered a lot of spooky games on the blog, and every now and then I’ll do a post with links to them all! This ...

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Another strip from Ajax/Farrell’s VOODOO ISSUE 17, dated Sept/Oct 1954, is what today’s visit to the vaults of the DIGITAL COMIC MUSEUM has dug up! This one has a nice little twist on th...

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And so we've reached the part of the investigation of the Caledonia Mills fires where a policeman was sent to find out what all the hoopla was about. DETECTIVE "PEACHIE" CARROLL, a detective ...

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  So today I decided to randomly head in to town for a wander round the shops, which was something I was planning to do tomorrow instead, but we just got a weather warning for more wind and...

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  Woke up today with a splitter of a headache….hours later, and it still hasn’t shifted, so I’m posting this in case the tablets I’ve just taken don’t work and I’m not able to p...

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 Ajax / Farrell's VOODOO ISSUE 17, dated Sept/Oct 1954, is where today's tale comes from, and it's a terrifying tale of past crimes being passed onto the next generation.... This was uploa...

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Mary Ellen and her cat, from the Washington Times, 2nd April 1922  Playing on the great interest of readers around the account of the Fire Spook of the McDonald (or MacDonald, they can never...

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  Over the years I've posted quite a few radio shows and snippets from records of a spooky variety, which for one reason or another have disappeared! Here then are a few of the posted track...

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  I picked up this book for £10 a few years back, which was about a sixth of it’s recommended retail price…and was very happy with my purchase! It’s a great book, filled with page af...

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Time for another batch of Gruesome Games I reckon! It's been hard getting screenshots for these since all my tech decided to pack up right at the start of the month, so most of the screens ar...

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  Something a bit different for tonight's feature....an Italian Fantasy-Horror movie from 1961! Hercules in the Haunted World (Italy - 'ERCOLE AL CENTRO DELLA TERRA' UK 'HERCULES AT THE CE...

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Well, the power has stayed on long enough for me to get a post in after all….and do you know what? I reckon this Halloween needs a bit of Creeping Menace! And so that is today’s tale, bro...

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  The wind and rain is battering off the windows and we just lost power briefly for the third time this week, so this is just a post to let you know that if I disappear for a day, it’s b...

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McDonald Farm, Caledonia Mills : Picture Credit - Pictou Antigonish Regional Library While searching for more spooky happenings in old newspapers over at Newspapers.com  , I discovered the ...

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  Alan Class Comics was a British comics publishing company that operated between 1959 and 1989. They produced anthology titles, reprinting comics stories from many U.S. publishers of the 1...

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  Today I’d like to share this lovely Pop-Up version of Dracula I found in a charity shop (thrift store, to you American types!)…..published by Walker Books, it’s a graphic novel styl...

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  A change of planned post tonight, as I had to deal with some unforeseen family drama, which I won’t go into here other than to say it’s nothing new, and nothing too serious, but quite...

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Today's trip to the Digital Comic Museum warns against upsetting the ancestors by tearing up graves to build upon. The Specters of the dam are restless and out for vengeance..... This comes...

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  Various Vintage Decorations I need to rest my tired hands after all the typing yesterday, so here's a quick Halloween decoration post with some images I found on PINTEREST ...... Vi...

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Given today's date, I thought that I'd take a look at some old newspapers and see what folks from back in the day thought about this whole Friday the 13th thing, and whether they were more or...

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