Author: Dangerous Minds Archives: 10/2018

Does it get any more Halloween than Roky Erickson? The ex-13th Floor Elevators frontman has been at the center of our Hallows’ Eve playlists since…

Toronto While I love The Exorcist and watch it at least once a year—wherever Penderecki is booming from big speakers, I’ll be there—I’m unable to…

Every October I try to challenge myself to find a few new spooky songs to add to what I lovingly call my “morbid melodies” collection.…

In August of 1985 San Francisco “cabaret no-wave” heroes Tuxedomoon took part in an interesting evening of entertainment presented by the Hamburg-based television channel NDR…

They are perhaps the most iconic few minutes of film in cinematic history—the “shower scene” in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic, Psycho. The segment continues to…

Phantoms crowd the mind. Whether it’s Guy de Maupassant’s Horla—the thing out there—or the barbarous horde conjured by a demagogue, there’s always some chimera troubling…

It’s tempting to suppose that Basil Wolverton never drew even a single doodle that couldn’t elicit a “WTF?” from a random passerby. Wolverton’s manic and…

In the 1980s the BBC used to do this thing every now and then where they would take a day and dedicate like 15 consecutive…

When the legendary comedian Soupy Sales died in 2009, Alice Cooper issued a brief statement through his publicist: Being from Detroit, I came home every…

A lot of people have written sonnets, but nobody in the English language is more associated with the form than William Shakespeare. In 1609 Thomas…