Are You Afraid of the Dark “Tale of the Doll Maker” (tv episode)

Giaco puts a spooky cap on our spooky eps with a classic episode of kids TV horror from the 90′s.

The series allowed for a wide range of story types and a variety of scares. Tale of the Doll Maker has very little concrete solutions- the characters survive, but we don’t know what they survived or how it came to be.

The protagonist’s behavior was certainly ahead of its time. She is the definition of an anti-hero, breaking in and ransacking the locked house of her missing friend

You can purchase Are You Afraid of the Dark on Amazon and iTunes. 

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The Jump (animated short)

Keiths pick is a short and sweet animated film from director/animator Charles Huettner.

The tale establishes rules of a strange phenomena and an eery atmosphere with no dialogue and tasteful sound design.

The short is part of the first Late Night Work Club anthology collection.

You can watch The Jump and the rest of the Ghost Story anthology on Vimeo. You can find more of Charles Huettner’s work here. 

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NEXT WEEK: We conclude 3spooky5me just before Samhain with Giaco’s pick, an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark “Tale of the Doll Maker.”

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At the Bottom of the Garden (short story)

Matt brings us more spooky with a short story by author and playwright David Campton.

A number of David Campton’s short stories were collected in the the Whispers Magazine.

The Whisper magazine stories were collected in a series of anthologies.

The Whisper collections (including Whispers II which includes the story in question) are available through amazon and other used booksellers. The tale has also been posted here.

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NEXT WEEK: Keith lays a pick at the feet of the oncoming dark lord with the short animated film “The Jump” from the Ghost Stories anthology from Late Night Work Club.

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Battle at Kruger (amateur )

Jules’ brings us a literal watering hole, in the form of an amateur tourists safari video that packs an entire day of nature channel drama into under 9 minutes.

The story begins with a small pack of water buffalo approaching the water, unaware of the lions who are lying in wait.

A chase begins as the lions pounce and pick off the calf of the pack. 

Surprise twist when the struggling calf is snagged by a croc from the water’s edge!

Go to YouTube and become one of the over 79million viewers of this video.

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NEXT WEEK: We enter the high-holy season of Samhain w/ John & Jules’ pick “Channel Zero: Candle Cove” for our 3spooky5me theme with TWO guests!

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Crowd Crush (tv series)

When Casey thinks watering hole he thinks ‘gathering of people’ and crowd crush is that gathering taken to the extreme.

A crowd starts acting like a fluid when it reaches a certain density. Extracting yourself from one of these crowds is often literally swimming upstream.

The pilgrimage to Mecca for Hajj is one of the events that regularly draws massive crowds and therefore crowd crush.

As cities become more densely populated the chance of finding yourself in one if these pressed increases. Be careful and aware when you are in a crowd. 

Learn more here:

New Yorker Article (2011)

Reddit Thread

BBC Documentary on the Hillsborough Disaster

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NEXT WEEK: We conclude with Jules’ pick “The Battle of Kruger”.

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Deep Space Nine (tv series)

To start us off John brings the third Star Trek series to the table. Following in the success of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine took a new approach to the Star Trek formula. Instead of traveling to new places each episode, they setup a station on the frontier of the explored universe and let the trouble come to them.  

The watering hole was Quark’s bar- a gathering place for people from across all stripes of society and morality.

The bar was established as an integral part of the stations community right from the pilot episode.

The series took some chances, directly tackling race and spirituality, where The Next Generation often took a more removed philosophical approach. 

You can stream Deep Space Nine on Netflix and find it for sale on iTunes and Amazon.

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NEXT WEEK: We continue with Casey’s pick- the ‘crowd crush’ phenomena.

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