Tom Baker

Joined June 2018
862 stories

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Author of Haunted Indianapolis, Indiana Ghost Folklore, Midwest Maniacs, Midwest UFOs and Beyond, Scary Urban Legends, 50 Famous Fables and Folk Tales, and Notorious Crimes of the Upper Midwest.: http://tombakerbooks.weebly.com

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  • Heavy Metal (1981)

    Heavy Metal is an adult comic magazine focusing on the adult versions of the sci-fi and fantasy worlds usually aimed at those that are, most assuredly, not adults. At least, not in the United States.

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Geeks

  • The Vampire Bat

    The Vampire Bat is a 1933 horror film starring the inimitable and wonderful old horror actor Dwight Frye--he of Frankenstein and Dracula fame, as well as many others-camping it up as the "Bat Man of Kleinschloss," which is a fictional Bavarian city that is neither German, British, nor American Hollywood, but somehow all three at once.

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror

  • Johnny

    Greetings! So good of you to come. I always like having visitors, and you do seem like such an interesting prospect in that particular regard.

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror

  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    I've never read Empire of the Sun, although I've certainly read J.G. Ballard's other novels such as Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition. Watching the film of his semi-autobiographical novel, directed by Stephen Spielberg no less, it seems almost incongruous that we are examining the early life of the famed post-modern novelist, who began as one of the progenitors of the "New Wave" of science fiction literature in the Sixties, before turning his pen to an avant-garde exploration of violence, media manipulation, and modern dystopian themes of alienation, subversion, and control. He seems always to have been asking what the cult of celebrity meant, examining our modern society and media icons in the light of our terminal march toward self-obliteration and destruction. (But the reader may pick up Crash or Atrocity and genuinely ask themselves, if they finish the books, "What the hell was he really trying to say?")

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Journal

  • Two Circles:

    "To none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith 'thou shalt' to me, is my mortal foe!" --Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right (1896)

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Beat

  • The Exile

    I am the black hooded shape reaching out to you from the darkness of the night. I journeyed through the doorway ripped, like a jagged black mouth, in the center of your sleeping brain. You cower in terror, knowing the suffocating feeling of something heavy and black, sitting on your chest; but no, even that's not quite right. no human mind could approximate the thing that I AM. Nothing human could process ME, for I am the absence of all that is spiritual light. I moan, and beyond, in the chasm between, you hear the gibber and wail of the damned as they writhe in convulsive agony; kept, like twisted slaves in a perpetual stew of relentless conviction.

    By Tom Baker3 years ago in Horror