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Happy Halloween, Tumblahhhhh! Today' playlist, as to be expected, is inspired by the Samhain and are in regular rotation this time of the year: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown OST(Charlie Brown Records/1978, Craft Recordings/ 2022), WNUF-TV 28 Frank Stewart Presents Halloween(Terror Vision/2015).

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Get your own spaceship, this one is mine.

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Posting a spectacular pair... of books for you on this #firstappearancefriday: Elvira's House of Mystery N°1(DC/ 1986) Newsstand and Direct editions. First time Elvira appears in the comic book format. #comics #comicbooks #comicbookcollection #elvira #cassandrapeterson #horror #macabre #spoopy #firstissuefriday #tassles #houseofmystery #everydayishalloween #cbfcmidwest #drawerboxes #egerber #campy #saynototheslab #collectwhatyoulike #1980s #moldvayallday #coinopkid

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Berwyn.

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Archie & Friends Thrills and Chills N°1(Archie Publications/2022), Daniel Parent Whatnot variant.

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Remember, remember the fifth of November....Happy National Pen Day: TWSBI Vac 700R<B>, Noodler's Nightshade, Rhodia N°16 pad, Lochby Quattro pen case.

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Couple of spoopy ones for your enjoyment this Howliday season, ghouls and boils: Creepy N° 1(Warren Publishing/ 1964), Shudder N° 1(Warrant/ 2021).

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Out here reppin' at The Dex a few weeks back. Probably only a couple more trips before the snow makes access nearly impossible.

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More trash. Betty and Veronica N°320(Archie Publications/ Oct 1982) First appearance and cover app of Cheryl Blossom. 

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Giant Dead Leaf Mantis (Deroplatys desiccata)

The Giant dead leaf mantis is a species of praying mantis from Southeast Asia. D. desiccata takes its common name from its resemblance to dead, leafy vegetation including having a flattened, greatly extended thorax and “intricate leaf patterns” on its wings. When disturbed, it rocks gently as if caught in the breeze. When threatened, it typically falls to the ground and lies motionless.It can also react with a threatening display consisting of “black underwings splayed out, with large eyespots, frightening away unsuspecting predators. Like most mantises, this species has little or no food preferences as long as the prey is the right size.

photo credits: wiki, wiki, wiki, tolweb

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106: Patrick + Selana VS The Evil Dead

In this episode of Patrick + Selana VS Evil, our intrepid hosts battle the forces of Deadites as they discuss the Evil Dead franchise.

Ace listener, @AsHeardInNYC calls us out for not mentioning Trollhunter in our found footage episode, and offers to join us on our eventual search for the Jersey Devil whenever Selana gets out to visit Patrick. In a bit of foreshadowing for our planned Januay episode, X-Files comes up. It’s still streaming on Netflix BTW, so if you want to watch or rewatch before the new miniseries drops, GET ON IT!

Patrick brags about his trip to Universal Orlando for Hollywood Horror Nights and the show almost breaks up when he proclaims the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to be better than Disneyland.

We finally get to the actual topic of conversation for the night, and bust open a can of whoop-ass all over the Evil Dead franchise. Our resident guru waxes poetic about the inside stories and behind the scenes tidbits. We ponder whether 2013’s Evil Dead was a remake, a retelling, or a story from a parallel universe (that also has Sam Raimi’s car in it???).

Selana takes it down a notch and has a Very Special Message for our listeners about the Hellraiser series of movies and whether or not you should watch them all (#dont), and we both birdwalk all over the place, discussing Patrick’s son’s Halloween costume plan (the demon from Sinister) and whether or not Selana is staying home again with her cats and her laptop.

We finally wrap it up and talk about Selana’s newest obsession, The Black Tapes podcast, and Patrick’s recommendation for the weird, undead-but-not-zombies movie, Cemetery Man.

Next time we chat, it’ll be a mid-season finale wrap up of season 6 of The Walking Dead (Is [REDACTED] really [REDACTED]???!! What happens when [REDACTED] comes to Alexandria??) and a discussion of Fear the Walking Dead (which Selana will have to binge on in between studying linear equations and polynomials and graphing, oh my!).

And remember kids, don’t read books wrapped in barbed wire and claiming to be cursed, and also don’t press play on a tape player in an abandoned cabin!

Credits Hosted by: Patrick Krause and Selana Dawn Edited by: Selana Dawn Researched by: Patrick Krause Uploaded to: Podomatic Extra Love to: Diabolik DVD, Scream Factory Intro Track: Halloween - Souxie & The Banshees Outro Track: Reel to reel from Evil Dead

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Morley the wizard wants you to try the Basic Set.  (From the back of TSR D&D Endless Quest Book Return to Brookmere by Rose Estes, 1980.)

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Drawlloween: Candy

They should really make Halloween Pez dispensers for horror movies. THE EXORCIST should come with pea soup flavored candy, of course.

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I resisted the urge to draw Al Gore for the “gore” part of drawlloween

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Drawlloween: Mummy

Why do they always show the body wrapped in a bandage when clearly the canopic jars are the creepiest part?

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Jeff Dee launched a new Kickstarter today to recreate the art from AD&D module A3: Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords.  The initial goal was met within hours but some of the original art from this project remains up for grabs and there are more stretch goals to meet before it closes November 22, 2015.

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