31 Nights of Halloween - Night 1: Tavares on the Case

Halloween being our favorite season here in the Dark Dimension, we - myself, dear Old Granddad Granvil, and Granny Black, the latter two here in spirit, natch - thought we'd try something different during this thinning of the veil between the world of the living and the Dark Dimension. Normally, posts are sparing, favoring quality (such as it is) over quantity. For this best of all holidays, we're going to be going daily, er, nightly. We'll be coffin up fearsome flotsam all month long.

And, damn, I don't know how the EC guys and the staff at Creepy kept up the wordplay - or should I say wordSLAY - and dreadful - or should I say DEADful - puns. I'm already exhausted - or should I say I feel like I've been EXHUMED?

It's an art, fellas, and I have UNDYING respect for you!

First up, let's ease into the season. Mystery is the cousin to horror, and SOUL group Tavares runs us through (not with a sword...yet) a list of '70s-era private dicks as they lament being ghosted by their best girl. So sit back and prepare to be disco-funkified as a love is purloined.

Brace yourselves: it's a Dark Dimension crossover!

It's the showdown you've been waiting for!

Marvel as I join my Distinguished Colleague at Dog Star Omnibus for the crossover of the millennium!

Thrill as titans clash in a conflict for the ages!

Dive for cover as the words fly in a literary lambaste!

Your eyes will reveal to you wonders that will leave you gape-mouthed in disbelief!

Face front, True Believers! Lash yourselves to something solid and behold a meeting of minds unimagined heretofore. Mountains will fall and continents will be riven asunder as you stand witness to:

Captain's Blog pt. 44: The Storybook Records

You dare not miss it!

In other words, come take a look as I make a guest-blogging appearance at Dog Star Omnibus' Star Trek Power Records post.

'Nuff said!