Just when you’re certain that the Internet is a wasteland of perfunctory banality and ought to be destroyed, along comes Lew Delport with a video to redeem everything.
Mermaid Werewolf Love is music video animated by Victoria Giacomazzi (with backgrounds by Emily Crosby) for a song by Alex Cazares. Watch it, and aspire to be the kind of cryptid who would cheerfully swim through a blood cloud for a shot at romance.
The way she slowly rolls back into the lake is the low-key funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.
KHOWL broadcasts from Altus, Oklahoma, via a mountaintop radio transmitter that might also be the geographical epicentre of the Rad Rock / Metal Music chart. Snarl, the general manager & founder, has invited me to hike up to that tower the next time I’m in the area. If and when that happens, I will report back with details on any flaming obelisks or cackling onyx skulls I see in the area.
Since Gabby Catella watched her boyfriend Brian die in their high school parking lot, she’s been having problems. Nightmares plague her, bleeding into daylight in episodes that might be waking dreams, hallucinations or, worst of all, reality. She’s taunted by creatures who look like Brian did the night he was gunned down – lithe, smirking monster wolves who peer back at her from mirrors and invite her to consummate her growing appetites. Gabby resists, but there’s a reluctance there, underscored by an apology and acceptance of responsibility – for what? – she makes to wolf-Brian moments before his death. She’s isolating herself from the sun-bleached 1980s summer around her, and to the rest of the world, Gabby may look like a traumatized teen goth in mourning, but to readers, it’s clear she’s dealing with the unintended consequences of some darker problem. I can’t wait to find out more.
