So Many Ways to be Scared

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2023



Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…


Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...






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Making Horror Comics

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2023


image by Banes, based on a story narrated by Lazy Masquerade


Making Horror Comics - a chat with Genejoke


I spoke to Genejoke about making horror comics. GJ makes a lot of comics here on the Duck. He has an anthology series here called Lite Bites, and multiple other series on ...






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FEATURED COMIC --> Thirley Peak

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 4, 2023



The year is 2022, Theodore Jake Carlsen is riding a school bus up a steep hill while talking to a friend, Eugene, about poetry written during the Great War. *Screech*. Theodore’s life is about to be turned upside down in a matter of seconds by a treacherous disaster. *Vroom ...

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October Arrives

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2023



I've always loved Autumn - and we're in it now, in my part of the world. To be honest, it's just beginning to come in, so I'm anticipating the leaves turning into those beautiful oranges and yellows (and all the variations therin), before they begin piling up ...

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FEATURED COMIC --> Out By The Lab

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 6, 2023



One unsuspecting evening, Sam, a vampire, and Wolfie, a werewolf, are relaxing in front of the television with a full bowl of popcorn. Twenty minutes from now, a mad scientist is going to be blasted backwards in time with a time canon. The resulting time portal from the experiment gone ...

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They Make You Believe

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 24, 2023




A long time ago I read something, I think an interview with a respected screenwriter or something, where he brought up the movie “Rain Man”.

If you haven't seen it, it's about a struggling wheeler-dealer type guy, played by Tom Cruise, who goes on a road trip with ...




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Don't You Know Who You Are?

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 10, 2023



The movie “Hook” is not one of Spielberg's best-regarded movies - I've always liked it quite a bit, though. One element of it that speaks to me is the main character who's forgotten his true identity and true nature. I love the story about the writing of the ...

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Horror - The Morality Play

Banes at 12:00AM, July 27, 2023



The idea of “sin” is a prevalent one in horror stories. In terrifying tales, the monstrous against the human also explores good vs. evil.

There is often a “sin” perpetrated by horror Protagonists. The classic Psycho begins with Marion Crane stealing money from her job. Her intentions are understandable, maybe ...



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Quackcast 643 - Cultcast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 11, 2023

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With the release of the new Indiana Jones film comes some questions… We haven't seen it yet but we hear a lot of people don't like it and it's already being called a flop ...


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Poetry Time 36: The Gate

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 18, 2023



Probing these mists for a console ancient
Caught in its patience I unsealed the gate
Prying those depths for a future latent
Omens so blatant I entered the gate
Pending the screams for a horror dormant
Leaving from torment I buried that gate


NaaN (Now, always and Never)

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