Television Crossover Universe

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 ...

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 th...