Entertainment Remember when people paid real money to watch bug apocalypse documentaries? Mark Frauenfelder

recipe Vincent Price and Boris Karloff both used some weird ingredients in their homemade guacamole recipes Thom Dunn

Entertainment How Mel Brooks' mother talked him out of his childhood Frankenstein fears Mark Frauenfelder

inventions Hear Raymond Scott's amazing musical inventions Bob Knetzger

music Do "The Lurch" to this rare vintage TV clip of "Monster Mash" as sung by Boris Karloff and Ted Cassidy! David Pescovitz

music "Monster Mash" has weird background vocals about tennis shoes and nobody knows why David Pescovitz

movies Watch "The Golem" (1920) rescored by members of the Flaming Lips, Los Lobos, Threshing Floor, plus commentary by occult, Jewish, and tech big thinkers David Pescovitz

hollywood Fun and rare 1939 color footage of Boris Karloff goofing as Frankenstein's monster David Pescovitz

happy mutants Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Cory Doctorow

horses How they used to fake horseback riding scenes in the movies Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants It's Poe's birthday, so here's Neil Gaiman reading The Raven Cory Doctorow

Tom The Dancing Bug Who Is the Republican Monster? (Trump. It's Trump.) Ruben Bolling

movie Vincent Price vs. Boris Karloff: The Raven (1963) Heather Johanssen

books Bang your eyes: the 13 hardest rocking heavy metal movie posters Mike McPadden