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Now I See You: The Role of Imaginary and Supernatural Friends in Fantastic Films and Television

Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge Introduction Our essay examines the presence of invisible or supernatural companions in fantastic cinema and television programs.  Most who love fantasy stories are aware of the imagined or supernatural character befriending a living character in films and television shows; however, as we brainstormed for this paper, we…


 

Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge Now I See You: The Role of Imaginary and Supernatural Friends in Fantastic Films and Television Introduction Our essay examines the presence of invisible or supernatural companions in fantastic cinema and television programs.  Most who love fantasy stories are aware of the imagined or supernatural character befriending…


Take Me to Your TV: The Evolution of Alien Invasion Programs

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos Introduction Stories of invaders from outer space appeared in early pulp fiction and such radio shows as Orson Welles’s classic adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds.  As reports of flying saucers captivated the United States in the 1940s and 50s, alien invasion stories became…


Take Me To Your TV: The Evolution of Alien Invasion Programs

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos Introduction Stories of invaders from outer space appeared in early pulp fiction and such radio shows as Orson Welles’s classic adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds.  As reports of flying saucers captivated the United States in the 1940s and 50s, alien invasion stories became…


Reviewing the Weird: Haunted Colleges & Universities of Massachusetts by Renee Mallett

Stories of haunted learning institutions abound. This isn’t surprising. Many schools are old and have complex histories. Some have seen better days and others worse. All that remain open for even a few years amass a long list of administrators, faculty, and students who come and go — and in some cases, return in spiritual…


Reviewing the Weird: Frank Edwards, Strange World and Flying Saucers – Serious Business

It’s been many decades since I first discovered Frank Edwards in a used bookstore – the kind that are all too scarce these days, with narrow low-lit aisles and paperbacks crammed floor to ceiling on unpainted wooden shelves.  While combing the paranormal section (which wasn’t labeled; I just knew where the old guy who ran…


Reviewing the Weird: Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events by Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon

Summer’s here and with the season comes America’s pastime and the boys of summer.  This is also the period when many paranormal sleuths amp up their ghost hunting.  Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon provide a surprising but solid pairing of both subjects in Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events. Tyler Lahti, CC BY…


Reviewing the Weird: Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest by David Hatcher Childress

David Hatcher Childress has been called the real Indiana Jones by many.  After reading Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest, one of several volumes in his Lost Cities series, it’s easy to understand why.  For those of us who will never physically travel to such places as Aztlan, the fabled Zone of Silence,…


Assessing Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster: Part 3

Another day, another disaster epic in the making! Irwin Allen at work. Join us for our third and final podcast examining the work of Irwin Allen, Master of Disaster, in which we chronicle Allen’s TV series, LAND OF THE GIANTS, and his hit films, including THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, and others!


Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition by Erich von Daniken

Many of us came to Erich von Däniken’s mind-blowing text, Chariots of the Gods (1968) not via bookstore or library, but movie theater or television. In the mid-70s, I was a kid already intrigued by UFOs and the weird, but I hadn’t read von Däniken’s book when I watched the 1970 film adaptation on television. …