The Astounding Outpost is proud to present our first line, ever, of Christmas t-shirts: Gangsters of Christmas and Krampus is Coming to Town.
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Changing Submission Deadlines
Starting today submission will run from the fifteenth of the month to the fifteenth of the next month. That means January’s call SWORDS, SORCERY, AND SUBWAY CARS Is Open now for submissions.
Count Down to Halloween Nosferatu : A Symphony of Horror
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Bram Stoker’s widow sued and all copies of the film were ordered destroyed but a few copies managed to survive. The film is not only the oldest vampire movie in existence but also gave birth to the idea of vampires being killed by sunlight. In Bram Stoker’s novel as in lore, Vampires were not killed in sunlight. The title Nosferatu was believed to be the Romanian word for Vampire due to a couple of 19th-century articles. The word is a mistranscription of Nesuferitul the repugnant one and Necuratul the unclean. The best etymology states it is possibly from the Greek nosophoros or disease bringer and I beleive is used for the devil . The Romanian word for Vampire is Strigoii
Count Down to Halloween House on Haunted Hill
Count Down to Halloween The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. Doctor Who made a refernce to the movie in the story the gunfighters when the Doctor introduces himself as Dr. Caligari