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Howdy all,

Kevin Millikin at www.spook-house.com thought it would be a fun idea to press a Knifepoint Horror LP as part of his ambitious project lineup. I love the idea myself; I grew up listening to creepy spoken word stories on old records and have always thought the format is still plenty viable. (I read somewhere that LP sales have been steadily on the rise for almost 20 years, which to me signals that it’s more than nostalgia—there are simply aspects to the LP experience that other media can’t quite satisfy).

Let’s do a poll, below, to decide which of the Knifepoint stories you think is best suited to a rainy night, a cup of tea, and that lovely baritone sound of a record playing in your living room. The voters will decide! 

If you happen to have a favorite spoken word LP you remember being fond of, let me know. Last year, in a freaky coincidence, I was walking past a thrift store and I saw displayed in the window not one but two of my favorites from when I was a kid, both of them cheesy suspense story compilations with garish covers. Who knew I was going to be walking past?

(P.S. I’ve always wanted to create an LP from an original story which could not be acquired any other way---we see if I manage to make that happen sometime.)

In other news, Counterweight Theater Lab in Colorado Springs is taking another whack at something from my archives in July, but this time, unlike their very convincing interactive performance of the Chilliam Witch story (acted by the awesome Joanne Koehler), they’ve adapted the audiobook Bride, Groom, Sunday, Forever for a great outdoor stage, complete with post-performance reception. Nice! Not a werewolf or vampire in sight in that particular story, as I recall… wait, was that the one with the freaky demon ostrich wandering the hallways of the nursing home? No? You’re sure?

And in the ‘Too Scary for Fiction’ category, I recently read up on the true life mystery of the “Watcher” case that occurred in Westfield, New Jersey involving a couple named Derek and Maria Broaddus and some horribly freaky letters they received at their new home---look it up if you don’t know it and love a good spooky crime story with no easy resolution. (The ‘Casefile’ podcast has a pretty good episode on it.) I’m always on the lookout for real crime stories with an aspect of the genuinely unexplainable to them, and this certainly fits the bill. No sleep for me tonight! Fortunately another late-night viewing of "Manhunter" should settle me down, especially the part where the corpse in the wheelchair comes flying down the ramp of the parking garage. Yeah, that always makes me wink out like a baby.

I’m starting work this week on the next Knifepoint tale, which should be pretty hefty; in the meantime, go right ahead and make up your own creepy story based on this statue I passed the other day in Richmond---get a load of the strangely intimidating face on that cat he’s holding… that’s a cat, right? Because if not…

Which Knifepoint Horror story should be pressed onto an LP? (44 minute limit, dang it!)