Halloween has got to be one of our favorite times of year. Candy, Fall weather and no one looks at you funny no matter how you dress. What’s not to love?

This week we talk Halloween with “Bonehand” Steve from the Bonebat Show podcast, Eric Morgret of MIFFF and Crypticon fame and Steve Lange of The Beta Society and director of the slasher film tribute/parody Junkbucket. We also have our reviews of Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker, Mark Henry’s Happy Hour of the Dead and Road Trip of the Living Dead and Runic Games’ new action RPG video game Torchlight.

All that plus the weekly geek news and Seattle area geek events.

ATTENTION: If you downloaded the podcast through iTunes and got episode #37 (Goth) instead of this week’s episode, please try re-downloading it again. Matt, our dangerously incompetent brain damaged code monkey chief in charge of uploading, fbxrd things up on the RSS feed but everything should be working now.

Our Geek Week

• Playing Catan: The First Island on the iPhone
• Still hopelessly addicted to iPhone Skeeball
• Watched The Last House on the Left (1972) – Wes Craven’s first movie
  

• Read Happy Hour of the Damned and Road trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry
  

• Read Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• Went to Slashacre put on by The Beta Society and Crypticon
• The Second Seattle Geekly Game Night at Green Lake Games
  • The November Game Night is going to be Sunday the 22nd from 1 – 5pm, again at Green Lake. Wind up your weekend with some boardgames and prizes!
• Played Torchlight from Runic Games.
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• Breaking news: 4th Edition D&D is still fun!

Halloween Madness

Interviews

• Steve “Bonehand” Holetz of The Bonebat Show
  

• Eric Morgret from Crypticon
  

• Steve Lange of The Beta Society
  • The Beta Society is also on Facebook
  • Junkbucket (2008)

What to do on Halloween

• Go Out
  • Club Zone list of Halloween parties in and around Seattle
• Halloween Viewing Suggestions
  • Trick ‘r Treat (2008)
  • Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (2009)
  • Deadgirl (2008)
  • Splinter (2008)
  • Hitchcock mini Marathon
    • The Birds (1963)
    • Rear Window (1954)
    • Rope (1948)
    • Psycho (1960)
  • Classic Universal Monsters
    • Dracula (1931)
    • The Wolf Man (1941)
    • The Mummy (1932)
    • Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
  • Resident Evil Marathon
    • Resident Evil (2002)
    • Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
    • Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
  • John Carpenter Marathon
    • The Thing (1982)
    • Halloween (1978)
    • Vampires (1998)
    • Prince of Darkness (1987)
    • The Fog (1980)
  • Romero Marathon
    • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
    • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
    • Day of the Dead (1985)
    • Land of the Dead (2005)
    • Diary of the Dead (2007)
  • Sam Raimi Marathon
    • The Evil Dead (1981)
    • Evil Dead II (1987)
    • Army of Darkness (1992)
    • Drag Me to Hell (2009)

October Horror Movies

This week Shannon reviews
Le locataire (aka The Tenant) (1976) recommended by @gamewatcher

and The Barber (2001) recommended by @CassieTownsend

Previously reviewed

• Carnival of Souls (1962) recommended by Wayne M
• The Children (2008) recommended by Jenna
• Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (aka Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) (1974) recommended by @RevenantMag
• The Attic Expeditions (aka Horror in the Attic) (2001) recommended by @KaneBlaireau
• Alien Raiders (2008) recommended by Joe C
• Murder Party (2007) recommended by Captan Slinky
• Grace (2009) recommended by @posiegirl
• Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) recommended by @donbcivil

News

• Microsoft Pulls Out of ‘Family Guy’ Special
  

• ‘El Pollo Grande’ loot card in new World of Warcraft CCG card set
• The One Thing That Could Make 2012 Worse: Motion Sickness
  

• Remastered complete Fawlty Towers series on DVD
• Halloween treat: Find haunted houses and events with MapQuest
• Whedonverse Trivia Night with Seattle Geekly! November 20, 2009 8-10pm at Neptune Coffee
• November Game Night at Green Lake Games Sunday the 22nd from 1 – 5pm, again at Green Lake. Wind up your weekend with some boardgames and prizes!

Events

Event Interview
Mateo Messina of The Symphony Guild talks Symphony of the Superhero. The symphony will be performed Friday November 6th 7:00 – 10:30pm at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.

• Conventions
  • October 29 – November 1 – World Fantasy Convention – San Jose, CA
  • November 5 – 8, 2009 – AmberCon Northwest – Portland, OR
• Events
  • October 29 – 31, 2009 Benaroya Hall 200 University St, Seattle – Hitchcock’s Psycho with Seattle Symphony. See master-of-suspense Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on screen at Benaroya Hall as Seattle Symphony performs the spine-tingling soundtrack. Perfect for Halloween!
  • October 30, 2009 8pm – 10pm Wayward Coffeehouse 8570 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle – A special night of readings by local horror authors Michael Montoure and Angel Leigh McCoy
  • October 30, 2009 7pm – Secret Garden Bookshop (2214 NW Market St, Seattle, WA) – Secret Garden Halloween Party with Cherie Priest. Cherie Priest promotes her latest book Boneshaker at Secret Garden’s Halloween event. Other authors include Liz Gallagher, Kevin Emerson, Amber Kizer, and Heather Davis.
  • October 31, 2009 2:00pm Barnes & Noble Pacific Place 600 Pine St Suite 107, Seattle – Meet and greet local author Don Roff and learn about the science and mystery of Zombies from character Dr. Robert Twombly. Don will be signing his new book Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection in support of Pacific Science Center!
  • October 31, 2009 8pm Grand Illusion Cinema – SUPER SECRET TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE. The Grand Illusion digs deep into it’s vault of celluloid horrors to bring you a heaping triple helping of monster movie mayhem. What is it you ask? Well, we won’t tell you! You’ll have to find out for yourself as we present a classic of human transformation horror and two modern day cautionary tales of cosmic terror!
  • October 30 – 31, 2009 Egyptian Theater 805 East Pine St, Seattle – Midnight Movies at the Egyptian: Let the Right One In
  • See our show notes for Episode #34 for links to local haunts
    

  • November 3, 2009 7:30pm The Moore Theatre 1932 2nd Ave Seattle – STG Presents John Cleese‘s A Final Wave at the World (or The Alimony Tour, Year One). If you can’t make it to his show in Seattle he is on a whirlwind tour of the U.S. and has a number of other show dates including one in Portland (Nov 2 at the Newmark Theatre) and two in Eugene (Nov 4 – 5 at the Mcdonald Theatre)

Contests

Silver Ship Series Giveaway!

Silver Ship Series Giveaway!
We have SIGNED hardcover copies of The Silver Ship and the Sea and Reading the Wind plus a SIGNED advance uncorrected review copy of Wings of Creation to give away. Wings of Creation doesn’t hit shelves until November 11, but you can get your hands on a copy a week early with this contest along with the first two books of the series. This contest will run from October 22 to November 1 and the winner will be picked on November 2. Enter the contest and stay tuned for our Author Spotlight on Brenda Cooper coming this Tuesday, October 27.

“How do I enter?”

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“How will you randomly pick someone?”

We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

Music

Music this week was from Every Day is Halloween by Ministry and select tracks from Bernard Hermann’s score of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho from 1960

Next Week’s show: Indie Comic Companies! we’ll talk about how important it is to support not only local comics companies but small press ones as well.