AUTHOR PHOTO BY GREG LOUDON, STATE & LAKE EL PLATFORM, MAY 2000

The Horror Show Podcast: Remembering Robert Bloch

The Horror Show with Brian Keene

 in which Wayne Allen Sallee, Stephen King, and others reminisce about Robert Bloch on what would have been his 100th birthday.

 

ROBERT BLOCH CENTENNIAL -The Horror Show with Brian Keene - Ep 110
Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, F Paul Wilson, David J. Schow, John Skipp, Tom Monteleone, Wayne Allen Sallee, Chet Williamson, Cathy Becker Gonzalez, and Del Howison share personal memories and anecdotes of Robert Bloch with Brian and Dave Thomas on the 100th anniversary of the horror master’s birth.
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The Horror Show with Brian Keene: ROBERT BLOCH - The Horror Show With Brian Keene - Ep 110

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OPENING DAY AT WRIGLEY FIELD 2017

I've never written a baseball story or even used Wrigley as a scene in any of my works, so allow me to indulge on the fact that the Cubs are playing the LA Dodgers as I type this. They, of course, had a rain delay, this being Chicago in April. I took a photo from earlier in the day, as hail came down. Here's a ffew Cubs and Wayne related images.

PLENTY OF GHOST BUILDINGS, TOO

My friend Chris Turek calls me Chicago's last pallbearer. Some photos I've taken are already gone. Others are hobo jungles. A Masonic temple in gang territory. The Damen silos, abandoned since a huge fire in 1989. Others that have no real name or importance. But I took photos of the monoliths.

GHOST SIGNS FOR THE UNINITIATED

Since I posted the ghost sign on the wall of Forte, some of you might be wondering what I'm jabbering about. They are all over, once you look close. Old Pepsi logos and faded signs for the Daily News. Here's a few that I've found over the years. If I see one from a bus, I make note of the intersection. Here goes:

GHOST SIGN ABOVE FORTE FRAMING

As many of you know, I collect photos of ghost signs. I travel the city for them. And yet I never realized that there was near the roof of the place where Bad Grammar Theater will hold its last readings later this month.