Today is horror master Stephen King’s 65th birthday! In celebration, Picking Up the Ghost author Tone Milazzo and Saint Mort Show host Matt Kelly join me in a candid and altogether fun discussion of the prolific author. This episode is a must listen for any Stephen King fan and anyone who wanted to learn more

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Usually, I prefer to discuss monsters of a more fantastic vein—Godzilla, werewolves, vampires, and the like. Today, however, I have decided to center the conversation on monsters of a decidedly more realistic sort—serial killers. Lots of serial killers populate books, film, and television, and have attracted large audiences by doing so. I find the celebrity

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The audio hiatus is over! For you iTunes subscribers, I put vidcast diaries of my UK trip on the direct website monsterislandresort.org. I hope you enjoy them. For this episode, my housemate Beth Accomando of Cinema Junkie and I talk about our trip in general and, more specifically, Film 4 FrightFest in London! The films

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Hello Monster Fans! The discussion about practical vs. cgi effects was a requested topic, and I’m glad to have two great artists join me to discuss it. First of all, I have Tyler Ham of HamFX, who has been a digital effects artist on such giants as Iron Man, The Pirates of the Carribean films,

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Hello everyone, Time for another Storytime edition! This will be the first part of three. Three Ghost Stories, that is. The first of Charles Dickens’s famous triptych of ghost stories is The Signal Man. Monster Island Resort Storytime is especially suited to ghost stories like this one. I hope you are in a dark room,

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Breast cancer is a monster I never expected to discuss on this show, but I am extremely happy with this episode and quite optimistic about it. It is dedicated to Jessica Rehn, who is currently taking on her own cancer with a strength and vitality I didn’t know any one person could possess. Unbelievably, her

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San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) nearly spent my lifeforce. After Viscera Film Festival immediately preceding it and two of my own film nights (Batman: The Movie and Dead Alive, respectively) immediately following it, I can’t believe there is a breath left in my body! I barely made it out with this episode alive, so I

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Once again, I have attended the Viscera Film Festival in Los Angeles. This is the first event I ever covered as Monster Island Resort back in July of 2010, and I’m happy to say it has grown considerably since then. Congratulations to Shannon, Heidi, and Stacy for their accomplishment! This year’s line-up: Among Friends by

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  It’s my two-year anniversary episode! I talk about fairy tales and their effects on horror with the brilliant filmmaker (and my dear friend) Karen Lam! Check out her work over at karenlamfilms.com! Her short films Doll Parts and The Stolen are definitely influenced by fairy tales. She has a lot to say about storytelling, mythology, horror,

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Hello Monster Fans, I have another terrifying classic horror tale for you–this one from the author Ambrose Bierce! Also, though I do mention this in the episode, I will also here give my congratulations to the team behind Take This Lollipop for winning the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches in Daytime Entertainment! Click on the link

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