J.B. Spins

As society becomes increasingly cashless, dead folks no longer have coins to pay the ferryman to the other side. There are several symbolic ...

The Good Guys chain of electronic stores no longer exists, nor does the CompUSA chain that was subsequently absorbed by an online retai...

Whenever an anti-hero gets talked into doing “one last job,” it is always a mistake. In this case, it is really three last jobs, makin...

It is the Red October of German U-boats. U-235 was commandeered by the Allies in hopes it could slip through the Axis naval blockade. ...

For decades, Western scientists and clergy have focused on areas of fundamental disagreement between science and religion. Yet, the questi...

Andrei Gennadievitch is a Russian cop, but he is nothing like Arkady Renko in Martin Cruz Smith’s novels or Inspector Rostnikov from S...

You would think superstitious sailors would never name their vessel after the legendary nymph Niamh Cinn Oir, given how tragically her...

In the 1980s, people still believed the word “evil” had tangible meaning. These days, people are embarrassed by the concept and increa...

By now, it should be painfully clear when the CCP knocks on your door, they are not there to help. That’s true even when they offer la...

Angga is a former commando now serving in Congress. He is sort of like an Indonesian Dan Crenshaw, except the Jakartan has made some e...

He wrote “Space Oddity” and starred in The Man Who Fell to Earth . David Bowie brought science fiction into rock & roll better tha...

This must be a Twilight Zone kind of story, because the characters call for taxis rather than Ubers. This particular yellow cab will n...

For some people, relationships are more frightening than ghosts and monsters. Guys like Damien Booster are a major reason why. However...

The list of gill-men monster movies is short, but distinguished: Creature from the Black Lagoon , Humanoids from the Deep, The Shape o...

It is time for some sea stories for fans of hip, violent midnight movies, in the Tarantino tradition. There will be a sly narrator and ...

Perhaps you always suspected, but it turns out Hell really is in Kentucky. To be precise, it is nestled deep within the Louisville Gro...

Every junior high student should be forced to watch slasher films, because bullies would be scared into nicer behavior. Carrie would be ...

Honestly, the one-minute Patterson-Gimlin film supposedly capturing Bigfoot out for a stroll ought to be in the National Film Registry, ...

How does the prospect of spending a weekend with Bridezilla and a pack of serial hash-taggers sound? Do the words “kill me now” come to ...

Starting in the 1980s, most horror movies have been set in suburbia (or remote summer camps). That is because if you want to scare peopl...