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Oh, and Clive Barker. Love him.

Caitlin R. Kiernan. Threshold and Silk are both brilliant.

Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. Love 'em.

I've seen it in various used bookstores a few times over the years. You might go that route if you don't want to pay cover price. I'm a bit sneaky with used bookstores, I bring in a huge box of trade ins, establish a nice line of credit, suck up a bit, and then leave a list of the titles I'm...

Not off the top of my head, I have it in Love in Vein II. As a short story anthology, I'd recommended it. I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but if you're into persian/proto christian/catholic mythology and symbolism at all, it has the best short story involving all three. It's a story called "The...

Indie/Folk. The Mountain Goats, Of Montreal, The Shins, Van Morrison, Alisson Krauss, Animal Collective, Caribou, Iron & Wine. I also enjoy classic rock, particularly the stuff that came out of California in the 70s.

Perrault, but McKinley for modern adaptations. Also, the Fables graphic novels. Bloody brilliant. Neil Gaiman's "Snow, Glass, and Apples" is worth a read for those interested in vampirism, a necrophilic/vampiric short story retelling of Snow White, very dark, but it's Gaiman. Sort of to be...

I burn in a bright pair of headlights. Damn you, Scottish ancestry. I gave up on sunscreen years ago, and I now just glare at the sun from under covered awnings until dusk. It's a hate filled relationship, but an amusing one to observe.

On about day seven. Madness, I tell you.

I will have to look up some of the books you've mentioned, thank you.

Horrible, life consuming insomnia. Roughly translates to 'sleeping life'. Inspired from a phrase I use almost constantly to describe it, "Ella es como las brujas, que duerme con los ojos abiertos." Translated: "She is like the witches, and sleeps with her eyes open."

I'll admit, I'm very excited about Dark Shadows. Please Burton. Don't kill this for me. Hunter S. Thompson is a hero of mine, and I'll list Fear and Loathing as one of my top ten. Any film in that same vein is at least intriguing. Tom Hanks and I have a love/hate relationship, but nothing...

I find myself enjoying the films that Depp does without Burton more than the combo, at this point. I hate to say this, but it almost feels like Burton has gotten lazy. Some movies just feel like he is throwing in quirk for quirk's sake, rather than doing it to enhance the film. I'm a bit burnt...

I was disappointed by Sweeney Todd as well, mostly because Burton destroyed it. I have loved the musical since childhood, and was horribly offended at the casting for Mrs. Lovett. Angela Lansbury made that role what it is, and Helena Bonham Carter killed it (in my opinion). I didn't like Depp as...

Drama/Independent/Foreign/Cult/Speculative-Surreal Horror. I end up watching a lot of obscure foreign films, particularly those by Ingmar Bergman. I enjoy a lot of the more speculative horror films, and ghost stories, rather than out and out gore. Guillermo Del Toro's films tend to be ones I...

Check up on Baba Yaga as well. Fables, a favorite comic series of mine, depicts her as the witch in all of the Germanic fairytales, which I thought was a lovely way to tie them all together in a modern sense.

Yes, and that is where most people first stumble across him. Walt Disney refers to the figure as Satan himself, which confuses the issue a bit, but it is Chernobog.

My first mythology book was D'aulaires' Greek Mythology. It had lots of lovely pictures, and though the myths were edited a bit for content, it was still very accurate. I started reading it around four or five. Scheherazade's Cat by Amy Zerner also had beautiful illustrations and had ten or...

Ehh. Of a kind. The zombies found in Haitian legends are not the zombies of Hollywood, and are not dead, but rather coma victims fueled by various religious rituals, drugs, and sheer belief. I don't necessarily believe in this sort of zombie, having not actually seen one/read any definitive...

Anyone at all interested in Slavic mythology? I collect Baba Yaga and Rusalka stories, and I've always adored any stories about Chernobog/Belobog.