Katherine Nabity's Blog

The Weird . . . Almost There . . . As of today, I have four stories left in The Weird. I suppose I could have pushed through and finished them, but working ahead of “schedule” has never been my style. Solidly in the 2000s, this week’s reading introduced some of the heavy-hitters of the […]

What’s Been Happening? Every-so-often, we get a storm in Tempe that is violent enough that standing in the interior hallway of my apartment feels safest. That was Tuesday. Luckily, there wasn’t any damage in our area other than a few downed branches. We even went running and throwing on Wednesday at our neighborhood drainage basin […]

Sherlock Holmes (series) Year: 2023Runtime: —Rated: n/a Writers: Andrey Kavun, Leonid Porokhin, Igor PogodinDirector: Andrey KavunStars: Igor Petrenko, Andrei Panin, Lyanka Gryu, Mikhail Boyarsky At some point last week, a GIF set from this Russian adaptation of Sherlock Holmes crossed my Tumblr dashboard. I was intrigued. Not surprisingly, the series is available on Tubi. (In […]

Still Weird The end is nigh! I’m down to nineteen stories left in The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Which means I still have a week and a half of reading at my current pace. This week I finished with the 90s and moved into the 00s. I feel like this set […]

What’s Been Happening? Happy September! Yes, I know there are three more weeks of official summer left. I know that it will be at least another month after that before cooler temperatures come to the Phoenix Metro. But everyone is back to school, football is on TV, Halloween decorations and candy are in the stores: […]

Issue 11, February 1981 Letters in “The Postal Zone” continue the age-old debate of gore/less-gore in horror; one correspondent going as far to posit that gore films are not “true” horror films. The argument spills over into what should or should not be on the cover of Fangoria. Do covers featuring gore effects preclude sales […]

The Weird, part 5(?) This week covered stories published in the mid-80s to the early 90s. We’re in the era of modern writers, some of whom are known for horror (Clive Barker, Lucius Shepard, Kathe Koja, Poppy Z Brite) and others less so (Octavia Butler, Harlan Ellison, Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Joy Fowler). I haven’t […]

What’s Been Happening? Last week started off great with a trip to the local Dollar Tree for Halloween stickers. I use them to jazz up my bullet journal. The selection this year was really good; I bought four sets! A sample of one sheet is shown above. Alas, while my 9 year-old spirit was reveling […]

Strange Darling Year: 2023Runtime: 1h 37mRated: R Writer: JT MollnerDirector: JT MollnerStars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey A one-night stand with a serial killer leads (not surprisingly) to violence and death. I knew very little about Strange Darling aside from it had gotten quite a bit of buzz. As usual, I […]

The Weird (continually continued) We jumped into the 1970s with Daphne du Maurier’s classic “Don’t Look Now.” Maybe it’s starting the decade with this particular story, but I feel like one of the larger themes in these weird stories of the 70s and early 80s is people and places not being what they seem. A […]