Hangmany

[For the previous game of Hangmany, click here.]


Can you solve the following puzzle within 20 seconds, or are you going to choke?


CATEGORY: MOVIE QUOTE


" ___  R  ___  ___  G        ___  U  T      


T  ___  ___        G  ___  ___  ___ ."


MISSES: A, C, D, L, S













HINT: Ving Rhames's deliverance




Answer appears in the Comments section of this post.

On the Road with Silver John: "Owls Hoot in the Daytime"

(For previous ballads about the balladeer, click the "On the Road with Silver John" label in the right sidebar.)


"Owls Hoot in the Daytime"

In a forsaken place where owls are diurnal
And a humongous possum's kept as a pet,
A housefront built around a cavemouth
Forms the strangest sight yet.

John is committed to unearthing truth,
But this is a tale he might not live to tell,
For the facade leads him to an uncanny beast
Whose truest home is hell.


Manly Wade Wellman's short story "Owls Hoot in the Daytime" can be found (surprisingly enough) in Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens.

Most Gothic Place Names in the United States--Tennessee

For previous entries, click the "Most Gothic Place Names" label under Features in the right sidebar.

The Volunteer State offers up a host of terrific names, such as Black Center (dark at heart), Stainville (C.S.I.: Tennessee), Hardscrabble (many unhappy returns), Chuckey (where no one likes to play with dolls), Crackers Neck (usually sunburned), Forty Forks (the angry mob has amassed), Bone Cave (skeletal shelter), Yell (for help, before it's too late), Crouch Crossroads (you can expect to be ambushed here), and Hanging Limb (must be a branch of Lynchburg).  This week's laurel, though, goes to...

Gravelotte.  Sounds like a landscape dominated by a cemetery.  Or the kind of town where solemn countenances abound, as the locals have all resigned themselves to a grim fate.

The Mount Rushmore of Macabre Movie Actors

Mount Rushmore has been on my mind since visiting South Dakota for this week's "Most Gothic Place Names in the United States" post.  I've been wondering...what four faces would comprise the Mount Rushmore of Macabre Movie Actors (i.e. those revered thespians whose careers are marked by ventures into the dark side)?  Using "overall body of work" as my criterion, I carved out the following fabulous foursome:

BORIS KARLOFF


 Career Highlights:

Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Targets (1968)

VINCENT PRICE


Career Highlights:

House of Wax (1953)
The Fly (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

BETTE DAVIS


 Career Highlights:

Whatever Happened to Baby  
  Jane? (1962)
Dead Ringer (1964)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
  (1964)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

JOHNNY DEPP


Career Highlights:

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Secret Window (2004)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
  of Fleet Street (2007)
Dark Shadows (2012)

Cat Lover

If there was ever any doubt that drugs make people do crazy things: the news this week about an Iowan meth-head who decided, ahem,
to get frisky with a feline (there's a more risque joke begging to be made here, but I'll restrain myself).

The sordid details of this story almost make the events of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" seem quaint by comparison.

Hopefully, Gerardo Martinez's inter-species misdeeds won't lead dealers to start marketing crank as an aphrodisiac.