The last video game I covered for this site? Paper Mario: The Origami King, a delightful, funny, family-friendly RPG-platformer in which the player hops through Mushroom Kingdom! The latest video game I covered for this site? Lust from Beyond, a first-person horror-erotica game in which the player descends into a soul-punishing underworld full of blasphemy, corporal corruption, and extreme sexual violence. One of these things... is not like the other! Inspired by maestros of "unfathomable body horror" like H.P. Lovecraft and H.R. Giger (what's with all the "H initial" names turning into …

If you're looking for a weekly installment of spooky storytelling, set your figurative dials and literal podcast subscriptions for Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid’s Tales from Beyond the Pale. The long-running horror storytelling showcase launches in weekly free podcast form today, October 10, 2019. The Tales from Beyond the Pale podcast will launch with the audio drama Reappraisal, written and directed by McQuaid and featuring Fessenden as "a mysterious stranger determined to buy a property from an unstable seller" played by author Clay MacLeod Chapman. Next up, Tales launches In the Wind on October 17, "a creature …