horror Listen: HP Lovecraft's "The Outsider" and "The Hound" read by Roddy McDowall David Pescovitz

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the uncanny Bizarro Bazar keeps the world weird Ferdinando Buscema

Entertainment Comics legend Stan Lee dead at 95 Xeni Jardin

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dogs Celebrate Wolfenoot, the new wolf holiday Gina Loukareas

music Newly completed Ramones song, S.L.U.G., released ahead of Road to Ruin reissue Gareth Branwyn

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books Folktexts: How to fill your head with free folklore Seamus Bellamy

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Technology Quantum computing’s terrifying promise Rob Reid

Japan Uncanny Japan: a podcast highlighting "all that is weird from old Japan" Cory Doctorow

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Science A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: DNA, individuals, and species Cory Doctorow

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