BALLADEER’S BLOG IS NOW FIFTEEN YEARS OLD

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave. You folks are the greatest!

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

BAD MOVIES – “Teenage” Monsters from the 1950s HERE, The Bionic Boy (1977) HERE, Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980) HERE, Television Spy HERE, Ron Ely’s Spaghetti Westerns HERE, Keith Richards movies HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – The Air Battle (1859) HERE, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686) HERE, In the Deep of Time (1897) HERE. Conquest of the Moon (1887) HERE. The Aleriel Novels (1874-1893) HERE. A Voyage into Tartary (1689) HERE. Elektropolis (1928) HERE.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Swamp Fox with Leslie Nielsen as Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion HERE, Wildside (1985) HERE, Reel Wild Cinema episodes HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. The Best of Broadway HERE. Big Hawaii (1977) HERE. The Blue Palace (1974-1976) HERE.

SILENT FILMS – Rin Tin Tin’s silent movies HERE. Seven silent films about the American Revolution HERE. Samson in silent films HERE. Rudolph Valentino’s silent movies HERE. Mabel Normand’s silent films HERE. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1916) HERE. Astrea the Strongwoman HERE.

FRONTIERADO – The original Deadwood Dick Dime Novel (1877) HERE, O. Henry’s original Cisco Kid story HERE. Shotgun John, neglected gunslinger HERE. The real Judge Roy Bean HERE. The Buffalo Soldiers HERE. Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune and Alain Delon HERE.

FOURTH OF JULY SEASON – Neglected battles: February 1777 HERE, Anna Maria Lane and Sally St. Claire HERE, the Black Soldiers of the Chasseurs-Voluntaires de St. Domingue HERE. The Black Coat, forgotten Revolutionary War superhero HERE. Blackheart Rum for the 4th of July HERE.

HALLOWEEN SEASON – H.P. Lovecraft’s 1916-1921 works HERE, A Black Mass (1966) HERE, Jean Rollin vampire films HERE, Three Silent Frankenstein Movies HERE, Swamp Thing 1970s series HERE, Van Helsing: From Beneath the Rue Morgue and The London Assignment HERE.

More Bad Mexican Horror Films: The Resurrected Monster (1953), The Living Head (1963), The Man Without a Face (1950), The Monster of the Volcanoes (1963) and The Terrible Giant of the Snow (1963) HERE.

NELLIE BLY’S NOVELS – Mysteries with touches of romance HERE.