Where the Dead Live - 2001 SOV Horror 📼

In 2001 the Chiller Cinema crew decided we wanted to make a movie. We got together with friends and shot it over a weekend on a farm in Tennessee. #sov #zombies #zombiemovies #wherethedeadlive

2001 Indy zombie movie, shot on video, directed by Chuck Angell. It originally aired on Dr. Gangrene's Chiller Cinema, episode 46 on 12/21/01. 📼 Directed by Chuck Angell Cast: Bryan Dorris - Bryan Annette Jones - Rose Kyle Jones - Kyle Linda Royer - Linda Karlee Bailey (Credited as Karlee Underwood) - Karlee Chuck Angell - Zombie Chris Baldwin - Zombie John Jones - Zombie Brandon Lunday Zombie Larry Underwood - Zombie

Singing the Tombstone Blues - new daily comic

Back in 1997, two years before I started my gig as a TV horror host,  I was self publishing comic books and put together a book that was a sort of tribute to my favorite horror character, Frankenstein. I had previously written and illustrated short stories and anthologies. But I decided it was time I tried my hand at writing a complete book, and I naturally wanted to do a horror comic. My partner in comics, Chuck Angell, illustrated the book, and the cover was done by Chuck and painted by Eric Powell.

We called it TOMBSTONE BLUES OR DEAD GIRLS NEED LOVE TOO. Now the reason for the double name was basically indecision on our part, or a difference of opinion, whichever you wanna call it. Chuck wanted to name the series "Dead Girls Need Love, Too" to capitalize on the bad girl comic craze that was HUGE at the time, and I wanted to call it "Tombstone Blues" as I was on a big Bob Dylan kick and thought that name made a great title. So the compromise was to use both.

This was the highest selling comic we self-published. I don't remember the numbers exactly but remember it was somewhere over a thousand nationwide. You'll see lots of homages and nods to both FRANKENSTEIN and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in the pages that follow. We published a second issue with a different artist, and finished a third issue that was never published.

I thought I'd share this with the readers of this blog. If it goes over well I'll put issue 2 on here, and perhaps the unpublished third issue too, if interest continues. I also have plenty of these books left, so I'll post them for sale in the store section of this blog if anyone wants an actual copy.

But in the meantime, I'll post a page a day. Enjoy!

Tombstone Blues: Page 1

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Monkey Stew

Thought I'd share a little about my hobbies before horror hosting. Seems I have always had one creative endeavor or another going as long as I can remember. I just think it's the way I'm wired - I'm happiest when I have creative projects going. Before trying my hand at horror hosting I was working in the world of comics.

Comic books were one of my first true loves, and of course I was drawn to horror comics. I used to read as many of them as I could lay my hands on growing up - so when I finally decided to try my hand at self-publishing, the first thing I did was a horror anthology. The company I stared was called Out of the Cellar Comics. I co-founded it with my long time friend Chuck Angell, the same guy I would later start this horror hosting show with.

Chuck is a horror nut too, so it was a no-brainer that the first thing we'd do would be a horror comic. I named it after a line from a Webb Wilder song - Monkey Stew. It was an EC style comic, with several short stories framed by a wrap around tale of an old man who answers the door to a couple whose car broke down in the rain. He tells them stories to entertain them, and things eventually take a turn for the worse.

We only published one issue of Monkey Stew. Don't know why we never got around to doing more - I think we just had lots of ideas we wanted to get to. The story below is one that was published in Monkey Stew #1 - it is called Natural Causes. It was written by my friend Frank Oreto, penciled by myself, and inked by Chuck Angell.

Little quick back story on this one - at the time I had just gone through a bitter divorce. It was a short lived marriage and we were really better off apart than together. But that didn't make it any less painful. When Frank suggested the story idea I just had one stipulation... he name the lead female in the story after my ex-wife, Elizabeth. I think I was taking out a little aggression here, symbolically anyway. The doctor in the story, Doc Barnett, is also named after a mutual friend of Frank and mine who always disliked my ex.

So here is Natural Causes. This story has gotten a  lot of mileage. It's been re-printed more times than any other story I've done. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Click the pics  to enlarge and read them, and leave me a comment and let me know whatcha think...