Category: Nyogtha

Alright, another week, another Nyogtha. This week I’ll doing a few short essays instead of 1-2 long ones. First of all, if you haven’t seen it already, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s first Vampire Hunter D novel has been translated into English and you can buy it in paperback form for $8.95 USD. I’m sure many of you…

Hooray! It’s June! 80 degree+ weather! Massive humidity! Birdies and baby animals abound! Sorry, but after a 7 month winter, I’m happy it’s finally warm weather here in Minneapolis. So what better way to start of the 26th Nyogtha than by answering a question that befits the longer hours and warmer weather we’ve been having.…

Whoo! Just got back from a weekend in Madison, WI with some friends, including IP’s own Gloomchen. We went to The House on the Mother Fuckin’ Rock and Circus World. Nice little two day vacation with friends. I’m hoping yours has been just has enjoyable. But now, on with the column. First, a bit of…

Nyogtha Volume I, Issue XXIV Tagline: Hanging out with Christopher Moore This week we’re going to the same format we did with Mick Mercer, when he dropped by to babble with me. This week we have author Christopher Moore in the hot seat. For those of you who aren’t aware of Mr. Moore’s work, let…

Folklore One of today’s topics comes from Mr. Ryan Holiday of Kentucky. I’ve enjoyed your Nyogtha column since it’s beginning, even with the Occasional cheap shot at Kentucky notwithstanding. After finishing your latest installment, I must say “bravo!” to every word. I’ve recently finished up my master’s in psychology and I’ve always had an interest…

Well, another week, another Column. It’s been almost a month since I’ve done a normal one of these, what with the Amityville Horror repeat, the Vampire Hunter Mocking, and then, last week’s Retrograding. This week’s topic comes via a conversation I had with an archaeologist friend of mine as we discussed literary criticism, and how…

See, because of my writing preferences, I get some weird emails. I get people asking me how to ghosts out of their houses. I get people asking me if there’s such things as werewolves because they think they have one living across the street. I get people who think I am actually Vlad the Impaler…

Well, I’ve been super busy what with an eleven page review of Jade Empire, and also writing three previews this weekend, so to be honest, I’m taking it easy with the column this week. For starters, I’m going to re-run part of Issue IV, from 12.13.05, as it’s about the Amityville Horror. I saw the…

Man, it feels good to be writing about folklore again after that whole Video Game Expose thing. Still getting lots of email, but no more mailbags on it. Just back to food and mythology now. And without further ado, let’s get to your questions for me. Hello Alexander, I am writing in regards to a…

Nyogtha MAILBAG Tagline: I’ve got emails in the triple digits from last weeks column, so this week has to be a mailbag. Man, what a crazy roller coaster of a ride last week was. The article on corruption in the video game industry got linked by so many places and my inbox filled to the…

This should make you all very happy. I mean, it’s like combining RETROGRADING and Nyogtha into one column. Anyway, this is something that not only I, but the entire GAMES staff here at Inside Pulse felt needed to be written. You see, so often there is talk and rumors about video game companies and their…

Lots of feedback from last week’s issues, mainly from people in the bands mentioned in last week’s article (Four of the ten bands contacted me and thanked me for sending traffic their way, which I replied that is was Mick, not I that named them) and a lot of people who found the column through…

Bit of a different format this week gang. Every few months you’re going to see a version of Nyogtha where I sit down with a fellow writer of things that are dark and spooky and do a column with them. This week it’s Mick Mercer. Now I realize that since the average Inside Pulse reader…

As always, we’re going to start off with reader mail. Hello Alex, How about a sea faring theme. What was the first supernatural story to appear to have happened on board a ship ? Michael C Well, when I first got this question the story that popped into my med is that of Homer’s Odyssey.…

Alright, let’s get down to it. Will Cooling, from The Nexus wrote in with this: Hey Lucard, Its Will Cooling of The Nexus, just writing to say I love the column and also just to suggest a couple of comics you may want to try. I guess techincally all of these would be down as…

This week I thought I’d do something a little bit different. For those of you not aware of it, I was commissioned to write a graphic novel for the “All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG” by Eden Studios. You may also know them as the writers of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG to boot.…

And it’s another Monday here at Insidepulse.com. This week I’m not doing reader requests if only because I’m celebrating getting back books, texts, and tomes I’ve been missing for 21 months. There’ve been a lot of essays and topics I’ve wanted to cover, but was lacking the needed resources to do it. But now that…

Another week begins here at Inside Pulse. Hard to believe we’re a month into 2005, but in fact, we are. Let’s take a look at a letter that continues the discussion from last week, shall we? Hello Alex, Thanks for answering my question about Aliester Crowley. I didn’t know you hated him so much. Sorry…

It looks like everyone is recovering from a massive snowfall this weekend. Hopefully you were all someplace warm or enjoyed the winter for a scant amount of time so that hypothermia didn’t set it. Let’s get to the questions. Hello Alex, Do you have any information about this man: Aleister Crowley? Anything on his life,…

Okay, kind of a busy week as I’m doing some stuff for Games behind the scenes, but of course I had to make room for Nyogtha. Even on weeks where I want to slack, I like knowing I’m the only guy who hasn’t missed a Daily Pulse yet. ;p Let’s do letters first. Alex, Just…