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For your little monsters

We admit we were a little skeptical when we first heard about this one. “Me Time with Niki” is a puppet and storyteller channel for kids on YouTube.

Check out Halloween Special | Cheeku & Peeku at the Haunted House| I Am A Witch’s Cat and I’m a Little Vampire | Halloween Special Rhyme.

The Raven

Go to your computer, phone, or tablet RIGHT NOW and check out Nightmare Realm on Etsy. They have some seriously awesome stuff that no Poe fan should be without. Like these seriously creepy bookends. Or this coffin-shaped backpack. Because who doesn’t need a coffinshaped backpack!

We love this one-of-a-kind Poe-themed charm bracelet by ItsGeektastic, also on Etsy. Maybe Santa Krampus will indulge us!

Still scary after all these years

We would be remiss in our duties, dear readers, if we failed to point out that one of the creepiest classic horror movies of all times hits the big 1-0-0 this year. Nosferatu (German title Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) was directed by F. W. Murnau and released by German film studio Prana Film in 1922,

Old movies, especially silent ones, tend not to age especially well, But Noferatu is weird enough to (cliché alert!) stand the test of time.

It almost didn’t make it past the first release. Despite a few cosmetic changes, Nosferatu is a barely disguised rip-off of Dracula. Bram Stoker’s widow sued for coyright infringement and the court ordered Prana Film to destroy all copies. Luckily for us, some prints survived. There’s an interesting article in The Guardian that explains it all and contains a link to the entire movie on YouTube. It’s worth a watch.

Possibly the creepiest thing about Nosferatu, as pointed out here, is that the principal character, Count Orlok—portrayed by the equally creepy-in-real-life Max Schrek—only blinks once in the entire movie.