Out of the Box Publishing has won the Canadian Toy Testing Council Awards for Run Wild and Super Circles. Congrats on a job well done!

This is a film done by Edward Douglas the composer of Midnight Syndicate. His music has been playing in haunted attractions for years now and he finally gets to take a dip in the vast directing pool. The Dead Matter is just as haunting and creepy as the gothic soundtracks Ed puts together every year. The film tells the story of a woman who wants to contact her deceased brother and stumbles upon a relic that can control the dead. She ends up getting mixed up with two warring vampire lords who want to control the power of the relic, where as one vampire hunter wants nothing more than to just destroy it. The Dead Matter feels like a story right out of the popular role playing game 'World of Darkness' bringing different fictional creatures together into the same world. I hope to see more installments in the Midnight Syndicate series in the near future just as good as this one. From http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/22885. Congrats to [...]

Get 50% off a selection of great books in Osprey’s January sale. Take a look, pick up a few bargains, and make sure you have enough reading to keep you busy through the first part of this year. Remember – as ever, membership discounts will apply on top of this 50% discount.

Happy New Year! In 2011, Monolith Graphics Celebrates 20 Years of Gothic Fantasy. Founded in 1991 by artist Joseph Vargo, Monolith Graphics began as an outlet to sell prints and printwear of Vargo's Gothic fantasy art. With the addition of graphic designer Christine Filipak in 1992, Monolith continued to grow and flourish, successfully spanning into the realms of music, literature and the occult. To celebrate this milestone event, we are offering great deals throughout the year. Anniversary Specials 20% - 50% OFF [ Postcards ] - [ Greeting Cards ] - [ Books ] - [ Posters ] All books purchased from the Monolith site will be signed by Joseph Vargo.

THE DAWN OF THE NEW YEAR FINDS CHAOSIUM in pretty good shape. We begin the year with two new items already in the warehouse and ready for shipping. We have a few other books already in final or near-final production. We found an overseas printer who is providing good-quality hardback production. We discovered that some Mythos evil-doers had infiltrated our site towards the end of last year but managed to ferret them out, ridding our site of their cruel influence and further improving security. NEW CALL OF CTHULHU KEEPER'S SCREEN! A Keeper's Screen protects the secrets of the Call of Cthulhu gamemaster while providing useful rules summaries and reminders. Created especially for the current edition of our popular Call of Cthulhu rules, this is a three-panel screen mounted on thick hardcover stock that folds out to 33 inches wide by 8.5 inches high. The package also includes a 22"x34" Mythos Vade Mecum poster by the mad french artists Christian Grussi and El Théo, postulating relationships [...]

March to Oblivion has been conformed for Saturday March 12, 2011 at the Chinese Commerce Center (Same bat cave, same bat channel for those of you who get the reference). $10 for the entire day. Yes there will be whipping and Frenzies! galore, Do You Worship Cthulhu (I expect to be shot or sacrificed immediately for some reason), D&D for the devout, more insanity and gruesome ends in Call of Cthulhu, defending the Imperium against the dark hordes, and rumours about of Adrian Silva running a console Fighter's Tournament. Games, games, games, and Chaos Chili perhaps? See you there

Biography Sandy Carruthers was born on May 11, 1962 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and describes his earliest memory of anything comic book related as watching Batman on TV when he was three. He began drawing at four when he recreated an illustration of a robot stamp. Even at this early age, he was able to accurately reproduce a larger version of this stamp. Carruthers trained at Holland College between 1979–1981 in its Commercial Design Program (later renamed Graphic Design) which he now teaches. He also attended Sheridan College in Ontario, taking its Illustration program. He currently resides in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Works Carruthers first started working in comics at Malibu Graphics and worked on many black and white titles. His biggest success was The Men in Black (comic), which he illustrated, the comic later becoming a film, Men in Black. He also worked on Captain Canuck. He worked as the Editorial Cartoonist for the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper. He published a book of [...]

Published Monday December 6th, 2010 Curtis Withers, The Canadian Press The developers of "World of Warcraft" wanted to breathe new life into their flagship franchise and they were willing to blow up a large part of their world to do it. (Edit - I'm no fan of WoW. Why not blow it all up?) THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Screengrab from "Cataclysm," the latest expansion pack to the PC game "World of Warcraft." The developers of “World of Warcraft” wanted to breathe new life into their flagship franchise and they were willing to blow up a large part of their world to do it. "Cataclysm," the third expansion for the best-selling online role-playing PC game from Blizzard Entertainment, goes on sale Tuesday. As the name implies, a worldwide catastrophe has shattered the game's setting of Azeroth. Towns have been destroyed, floods and droughts have ravaged the world's landscape, and tensions between the game's two main factions, the Alliance and the Horde, are high. And the giant dragon [...]

Published Thursday November 25th, 2010 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON - Auctioneers overestimated the power of the dark side. Christie's employees walk past a Darth Vader costume from the epic 'Star Wars' movie anthology on display during the 'Popular Culture : Film and Entertainment' sale at Christie's auction house in London, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. The Darth Vader costume sold for a hammer down price of 150,000 pounds (US$236,700 or 177,300 euro) (AP Photo/Sang Tan An original Darth Vader costume from a "Star Wars" movie did not sell at auction Thursday when no bidder offered to pay the reserve price, Christie's auctioneers said. The outfit — a jet-black helmet, mask and armour — was expected to sell for between 160,000 pounds and 230,000 pounds ($250,000 to $365,000). The reserve price is confidential but generally it is just under the minimum expected price. Christie's said bidding stopped at 150,000 pounds. The costume is thought to have been made for "The Empire Strikes Back," the second film in [...]

Published Wednesday November 24th, 2010 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Vampires, beware: Buffy is coming back. A remake of the horror comedy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is in the works at Warner Bros., the studio said Tuesday. A studio spokeswoman says the project is in the earliest stages of development. It hasn't even been green-lit yet, and there's no director or star attached. One thing we do know: Joss Whedon, who wrote the first "Buffy" script and created the TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar that became a pop-culture phenomenon, is not involved. The new script comes from Whit Anderson, a 29-year-old actress-turned-writer. The original 1992 movie starred Kristy Swanson as a teenager who learns it's her destiny to battle vampires.