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“American Horror Story”: The Story of Roanoke Revealed
FX’s “American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare” continued last night, offering more reasons for Shelby and Matt (Sarah Paulson and Cuba Gooding Jr.). Now, Angela Bassett’s daughter is kidnapped/missing; because of this, the family must stay in order to find her. The episode takes notes from Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist by bringing in a psychic to find her, which also is used as a device to explain the “true story” behind the Roanoke ghost story. While there’s now a lot of answers, the writers are pushing on the mystery of “Croatan”, which by the quick search on Google reveal is a Native American tribe that may or may not have been in alliance with the Roanokans. We’ve seen characters from this episode scalped in previous ones, so I think it’s safe to assume the Croatan are responsible for the vanishing Roanoke people.
FX continues to hide information, thus leaving us with only the promos to gauge what’s head. Below is what’s on Chapter 4, which appears to focus on the secret word, “Croatan”.
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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August
We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.
A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.
Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.
Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”
“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.
“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”