Into the Obscuradrome
Dispatches from the mind of Bob Pastorella, writer and podcaster. Horror and Speculative Fiction.

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Nov

ObscuraJournal 11/20/25

One of the coolest things is when a band includes a callback to older music in new music. Sometimes it&
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19
Nov

ObscuraJournal 11/19/25

I've been at the 90% mark in Ghost of Yōtei for about a week now. I tried to
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13
Nov

Into the Obscuradrome 11/13/25

Welcome back to the Obscuradrome. I'm Bob Pastorella, co-host of the This Is Horror podcast, author of The
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05
Nov

ObscuraJournal 11/4/25

I'm working on something for an essay, which will probably be in my next newsletter, about how occult
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01
Nov

ObscuraJournal 10/31/25

Happy Halloween! I hope everyone is getting their fill of fun and frights and candy and horror movies. I'
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30
Oct

ObscuraJournal 10/30/25

I hope folks realize that John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, and Season of the
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25
Oct

ObscuraJournal 10/25/25

I haven't watched that many horror movies this year for Halloween. This isn't by design or
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23
Oct

ObscuraJournal 10/23/25

My eyes are dilated at the moment, so there could be typos ahead. Tinkered with the theme here a bit.
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21
Oct

ObscuraJournal 10/20/25

I've been blogging. For a while now, actually. First with my old website, then substack (left that place
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20
Oct

ObscuraJournal 10/19/25

I went back to work today. Have I ever told y'all how much I hate my job. It&
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