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Nicholas Diak
@vnvdiak
Pop Culture Scholar | Podcaster
Glendale, AZ
Pop culture scholar of sword and sandal films, horror studies, exploitation cinema, industrial and synthwave music. Co-host of the HP Lovecast Podcast.
32 Posts
Nameless Places
Today's treasure: my most cherished Arkham House edition, Nameless Places. Signed by Dreamlands author Gary Myers, legendary horror author Ramsey Campbell and artist Tim Kirk - complete with a doodle. Love this book. #HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #CosmicHorror #BookCollector #Arkham #Ar Bi-weekly news Roundup: 2023-09-10
Time for my bi-weekly news/project updates! New episode of HP Lovecast Podcast - we interview Ness Brown, author of The Scourge Between Stars Lots of #CFP s on Medieval studies New Scholars from the Edge of time Episode - On Starsand video game Autograph stuff And more! Check it out: # Aliens: Salvation
Today's treasure: my copy of Aliens: Salvation signed by Dave Gibbons and Mike Mignola. Note: extremely grateful I got published in an issue if Weird Tales that Mignola did the cover for. Goals! #Alien #Aliens #Predator #AVP #SciFi #Horror #Comic #Comics #GraphicNovel #xenomorph Crackerjack 3
Today's treasure: Crackerjack 3! Another from the Gruner collection, this one is signed by Olivier Gruner, WWE Diva Amy Weber, Bo Svenson, and director Lloyd Simandl who has a penchant for WIP/women in slavery genres. Rare instance of Gruner being a bad guy! #ActionFilm #CultFilm Bikini Beach
Today's treasure: Bikini Beach signed by the grooviest AIP beach movie babe, Donna Loren. All the AIP beach films were pretty fun with catchy music, esp when old guard like Buster Keaton show up. #Beach #Tiki #Surf #CultFilm #Bikini HP Lovecast Podcast - Ness Brown
A new episode of HP Lovecast Podcast is now online! In this episode Michele and I interview Ness Brown about their debut Space Horror Novella, The Scourge Between Stars. Check it out! #Podcast #Horror #HorrorPodcast #Alien #Aliens #EventHorizon #DeadSpace #SciFi #ScifiHorror #Lovec Bizarre Sinema!
Today's treasure: Bizarre Sinema! Horror all'italiana 1957-1979 autographed by the queen herself, Barbara Steele. This is an epic book, gave me lots of insight into Italian horror films when I first began my studies. Cited this in my thesis. #horror #gothic #giallo #cultfilm #explo The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3
Today's treasure: The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3, signed by Lovecraftian Dreamlands master, Gary Myers, and big poppa Game Of Thrones himself, George R R Martin. Talking about oooooooooold school sword and sorcery. I love the Lin Carter's collections from back in the day. #SwordA Biweekly News Roundup 2023-08-27
Time for my bi-weekly news on projects and other things! Issue #2 of Dark Dead Things is out! This magazine contains my essay about Mimetic Desire in The Call of Cthulhu I've setup accounts at BlueSky and IMDB CoKoCon schedule is live Scholars from the Edge of Time episode - we talk Abominable
Today's treasure: Abominable signed by Loyd Braun himself, Matt McCoy. Rear Window meets Bigfoot? It works! It's a great cryptid-horror film with some old and new guard cameos. #Horror #Cultfilm #BigFoot #Crytid #Sasquatch #Seinfeld Transformers
Today's treasure: Transformers DVD where the DVD is housed in an Optimus Prime that folds out. My copy is also signed by Mark Ryan, the voice of Bumble Bee. Met him many years ago at a small comic con in Seattle and he was rad. #Transformers #MichaelBay #BumbleBee #OptimusPrime Velocity Trap
Today's treasure: Velocity Trap. Die Hard in Space? Absolutely, but I love this film and I have it signed by many of the actors: Olivier Gruner, Bruce Weitz, James C. Burns, and Jaason Simmons. Gruner in top form in this fun heist in space film. Dark Dead Things
Publishing news! Issue 2 of Dark Dead Things is out! My essay about Rene Girard-ian mimetic desire in The Call of Cthulhu is published in this issue. Excited to dive in and read the other stories and interviews within. Check it out: #Horror #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #Writer #Writers Plan 9 From Outer Space
Today's treasure: Mike Nelson autographed edition of Plan 9 From Outer Space, also signed by Ed Wood superstar Conrad Brooks. Came with an air freshener b/c apparently this movie stinks. (It rules). #EdWood #BFilm #Horror #SciFi #CultFilm #BadMovie #MST3K Day of the Dead
Yesterday I shared Dawn of the Dead so today I gotta follow up with my copy of Day of the Dead, signed by Sherman Howard (BUB!!!) and Terry Alexander. #Zombie #zombies #ZombieMovie #Horror #HorrorFilm #CultFilm #Brains #DayOfTheDead #Undead #Autograph Dawn of the Dead
Today's treasure: the Ultimate DVD edition of Dawn of the Dead signed by Ken Foree. The classic #zombie film itself that I feel set more precedents than the original Night of the Living Dead. #DVD #Horror #DawnOfTheDead #Zombies #CultClassic #CultFilm #Consumerism #Gore Nightbeast
Today's treasure: The Troma DVD of Nightbeast signed by Don Dohler's son Greg Dohler. Dohler was the king of 80s creature features. #Cultfilm #Horror #HorrorFilm #SciFi #Retro #Autograph #Troma #ExploitationFilm Contamination
Today's treasure: DVD release of Contamination signed by director Luigi Cozzi. I unabashedly love this Alien knock off. It is gory, over the top, and insanely fun. I dig the pseudo spyfi elements in the last half. #DVD #Autographed #Cultfilm #Horror #HorrorFilm #ItalianFilm #Italy The Last Hunter
Today's treasure: Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter, signed by his son, Edoardo Margheriti. One of/if not the first Italian take on the Vietnam War that obviously lifts from The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now that dives into a Hanoi Hannah proxy. #CultFilm #MacaroniCombat #Gen Bi-Weekly News Roundup 2023-08-14
Here is a rundown of all the projects and things I have going on (link at bottom). Article up that looks at the Black Emanuelle boxset from Severin Films Lots of new citations New episode of HP Lovecast Podcast - we interview Chelsea Pumpkins CFP on Beowulf New Essay appearing in the
