Today's news reports we can expect a lot more body parts to wash ashore: http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/235896/human-remains-possible-among-tsunami-debris/

I actually saw a bury-you-alive service on some TV show once, probably close to 20 years ago, for whatever that's worth. Another show where they were interviewing a guy who invented an unrelated device to detect whether a person being buried was still alive. The host of that one asked the inventor, "how did you come to think of this, did that ever happen to you [being buried alive]." The inventor nodded vigorously and said, 'yes, three times!" We didn't have twitter or blogs back then, but we still had Infocult-scale weirdness.

I love this list in part because most of it could be applied to all games, not just horror, and the results would be better.

The Vampire Tapestry was the first one that sprang to mind for me as well. Saberhagen should be on the list, but I'd nominate The Dracula Tape over An Old Friend of the Family. I also thought Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt The Night was a decent vampire tale and an excellent period piece. The thread combining these is that none of them are really horror stories.

Hello Kitty has no mouth, but she must scream: http://www.queeg.com/hellokitty/ I think the appropriate celebration of the birth of the Hello one is to re-read Hello Cthulhu in its entirety: http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30

"The Olympics came upon us Like some kind of curse. Steal from the poor and give to the rich Like Robin Hood in reverse." So far I only have the chorus, but I imagine the rest will write itself over the next few months of living in Vancouver, host of the 2010 Olympics. (Host in the sense of a parasite). My favourite is when they call the cost overruns "unforeseeable" after they've happened in every Olympics I can remember.