Yearly Archives: 2022

REUNITED, AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a thousand more times. One of the great marriages in pop culture history is the sacred vow of heavy metal and horror. Whether it’s Dokken’s “Dream Warriors” or Alice Cooper’s “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)”, the two worlds pairing together works insanely well and rules […]

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MYSTERY MEAT MIX 3: ROOM FOR DESSERT?

“Room for dessert?” Grandma TNUC asks in that sweet voice, as she slides a putrid-green thing filled with God-knows-what nuclear waste across the dinner table. Family members gasp and shriek in horror when they see what just landed on the otherwise very pleasant Thanksgiving holiday spread. Kids at the kid’s table run away crying. In-laws […]

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B(EAST)-SIDE.

The hardest part about parting ways with another Halloween season isn’t putting away the spooky decorations, tossing out the rotting pumpkins or balling up the cobwebs from the bushes in the yard. The painful thing to me is just how abrupt the end is. After all, from mid-September all the way to October 31st, it’s […]

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NIGHT BEAST 5: THE BEAST CHILD.

Cindy Davenport remembered that terrible night nine months before when she had been seduced by a man in wolf’s skin. Why had she been tempted in the first place by this fowl-smelling, beastly, bulging man? She did always envision the idea of possibly being lured by a vampire, who throughout the course of history have […]

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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: OZZY’S GIANT DEMON BAT.

It’s time for another edition of TNUC’s Unsolved Mysteries, where Uncle T likes to resurrect the sweet but terrifying soul of the late-great Robert Stack to help us solve a ghoulish mystery. Today we’re shining a light on Ozzy Osbourne’s infamous giant demon bat! Why, you ask? Because as thunderous of an arrival as the […]

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DIO’S GIANT SPIDER.

Ronnie James Dio. The greatest heavy metal vocalist of all time. He would have turned 79 this year. Dio’s band in 1988, a tight pack of monster players who are the best at what they do, performing at a high level every night and mystifying fans with their musical chops. What else could they possibly […]

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