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The Eastland Survivors and the Case of the Missing Bylines

Send us Fan Mail Memory can vanish quietly—sometimes with a server shutdown. This week, we open the door to the Eastland disaster’s online past: from an early researcher’s dial-up “postcard pages” to an early Eastland website’s now-defunct archive. We trace how those pioneering digital efforts shap…

The Rosetta Stone of the Eastland Disaster

Send us Fan Mail Tracing the Eastland story back to the people who first preserved it online. This week, I’m pulling back the curtain on how, in the late 1990s, the Eastland Disaster story was rediscovered, shaped, reshaped, and carried onto the early Internet (courtesy of the Eastland Memorial Soc…

One Family, Two Losses, and a Voice That Went On

Send us Fan Mail A century-old trade journal shouldn’t be the most gripping thing you’ll hear about this week, but here we are: a 1915 issue of The American Lumberman unlocks the intertwined stories of Chicago’s Czech community in the aftermath of the Eastland disaster. We trace a death notice—Juli…

Rescuers in the Shadows: A Milestone, a Mystery Photo, and the Brothers Petroskey

Send us Fan Mail This week, we pull back the curtain on the Eastland disaster’s historiography and bring two overlooked rescuers to the forefront: Great Lakes captains Walter and Emil Petroskey. The Petroskey brothers manned a lifeboat and saved lives when the steamer rolled in the Chicago River in…

All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale pry into All the Colors of the Dark, a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino and starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, George Rigaud, Susan Scott and Marina Malfatti. Music by Two Minute Noodles. Find Nicholas Bell and Joseph's…

Episode 56: Les Diaboliques (1955) & The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)

Welcome to episode 56 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts. This week we are in Europe, where we return to the psychological thriller and the Italian giallo, with two films drenched in murder and paranoia. …

Episode 19 - The Sweet Body of Deborah

The Sweet Body of Deborah (Guerrieri, 1968) After a five-year absence, Fragments of Fear returns to the Italian thrillers of the 1960s with Romolo Guerrieri’s The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968). Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel star as newlyweds Deborah and Marcel, whose honeymoon in Geneva is disrupt…

Episode 65: All the Colours of the Dark (1972) & The Omen (1976)

Welcome to episode 65 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts. This week we are covering two suitably autumnal films, both of which share a memorable filming location of Bishops Park in London, and both of whi…

Finding the BLERD in you

On this episode of Brave Blocks, we interview George Hilton, a U.S. Army veteran and Co-Founder of BlerdCon, as he shares portion of his military journey, deployment to Kuwait in the 90’s, the importance of being one’s authentic self in all spaces, the birth of BlerdCon, and channeling one’s fandom…