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Kolchak the Night Stalker

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I feel as if I've already covered this one, but a search of my past blog posts shows I have not.  I guess I've just covered the character and series so much in other posts and the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia over the years that it just seemed so familiar.  So, now, long overdue, here is Carl Kolchak, and the series that inspired the X-Files. ARMY OF DARKNESS (FILM) Release Date: 1992 (Setting follows the events of Evil Dead 2, but due to time travel, the main story takes place in the year 1300) Series: Evil Dead The Story: At the end of his battle with the Deadites in the cabin in the woods, Ash is pulled back in time to the year 1300 where he must face a Deadite army and retrieve the Necronomicon ex Mortis if he wants to return to his own time period. Notes: Pardon my lack of objectiveness, but this is a great movie. It is the third film in the Evil Dead series. In the Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles, it’s revealed that the Necronomicon ex Mortis is the