Harry's surgery went well, although they ended up needing to take the entire leg. Fortunately, the vet said it didn't look like the tumors spread to his body. My mom says Harry is up and walking fine on just three legs now. A little groggy sometimes from his pain meds, but getting around without any real difficulty.

Harry the cat goes in for his surgery today. Wish him luck, everyone.

Written in 1959 by Joseph Payne Brennan, The Corpse of Charlie Rull is an early zombie short story, predating 1968's Night of the Living Dead, and is one of the first stories that involves a zombie that wasn't resurrected by voodoo. It's also shockingly violent and nihilistic for its time, and, like Slime, was published in the short story collections The Shapes of Midnight and The Feaster from Afar, but, once again, because these can be prohibitively expensive, my man on YouTube Edward E. French has got you covered (as before, see below)!

Charlie Rull is a homeless man who lives in the town dump outside of the town of Newbridge. Aside from being a chronic alcoholic, he's never harmed a single soul in his entire life. That all changes the day...
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Written in 1953, Slime is the granddaddy of all blob monster stories (not counting Anthony M. Rud's Ooze). Originally published in Weird Tales, it's also available in this wonderful but sadly out of print and expensive paperback collecting several of the author's works, with the awesome title "The Shapes of Midnight."

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Wharton's Swamp, a coastal marsh located near the town of Clinton Center, has an unsavory reputation for being haunted. Most of the locals avoid it. But homeless man Henry Hossing isn't aware of it. He's just passing through, having stopped to take shelter from a rough storm the night before. Hassled by the local cops, he makes a camp...
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The GoFundMe for Harry's leg surgery has hit $650! My mom is so happy! Thanks to everyone who donated, or even just spread the word!

Harry's GoFundMe - https://www.gofundme.com/harry-needs-a- ... 5xtDhH_nec - is up to $470 of the $650 needed. My mom is just about in tears in gratitude to everyone who donated.

My mom's cat Harry has a tumor in his leg and he needs an operation. It isn't cheap. Please, give anything you can to help him out. As you can see from the photos, he really, really needs this operation (beware, the pictures are pretty icky):

https://www.gofundme.com/harry-needs-a- ... 5xtDhH_nec

If enough people give just $20, it could add up really quickly.

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone had a good 2018, a few, um, bumps along the way notwithstanding, and here's looking forward to 2019 being even better!

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Party times!

I now own Burton, a.k.a. "Pinky," my new pink-footed tarantula, a surprise from my mother today because she knew I was still a little upset over my scorpion Richard's death. So far, he (?) is a greedy little booger, gobbling up three crickets in his little critter carrier. He seems very active and healthy, though, which is good. I'll need to clean out Richard's tank before putting Burton into it, though. (As well as change the name if I find out if "Burton" is a girl, heh.)

Merry Christmas (Day), everyone!