Television Crossover Universe

First, stop reading, go over to the right hand column, and listen to episode 50 of the podcast.  You can even hit play and read and listen at the same time if you have that skill. James, M.H. and Ben did a tribute to the first fifty episodes of the show.  It was a great tribute, but it was missing something.  Me!!! The show was a bit biased to the perspectives of the three current hosts, two of which weren't so much there for the first forty episodes, so I feel I must add this complimentary companion post to supplement the episode. So.  1978, driving cross country with my parents, Laff-A-Lympics comic.  You know all that stuff.  You know about the notebooks.  You know about the Wold Newton Group.  You know I met Ivan, James and Gordon there.  You know about the book club and Hannah Montana. And you know that I wrote a book.  It was the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia.  And that's where this story begins. My uncle Joe was hel...

The previous post, Hammer Horror: Dracula, was originally going to cover all the Hammer films included in the Horror Universe. However, as I was reviewing my book and dong the research, I realized that most of the Hammer Horror in the Horror Universe is from the Dracula series, and the few other unconnected films included were mostly in through Anno Dracula. But as I was doing that research, I also started looking at Horror Express, the film that seems like it should be a Hammer film, even though it's not. So normally I only do one blog post on Thursdays related to a television series or film that is linked to the Horror Universe in the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia, but this Thursday, here's a bonus post. HORROR EXPRESS (FILM) Release Date: 1973 (Setting is 1906) Series: Horror Express The Story: A British anthropologist transports his find, which he believes to be the missing link, via the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow, but as the ...

Next Saturday, January 23, the TVCU Crew  will be recording episodes 7 and 8 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.  In Episode 5,  Robert,  James and  Ivan  will be talking with special guest  WILLIAM MEIKLE , author of " CARNACKI: CAPTAIN GAULT’S NEMESIS ", a short story found in  CARNACKI: THE NEW ADVENTURES (in keeping with our recurring Carnacki author theme).   William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries.  He has books available from a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Dark Renaissance, and his work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines with recent sales to NATURE Futures, Penumbra and Buzzy Mag among others.  His recent novel THE HOLE reached #3 in the Amazon Horror charts and looks ...