1958 horror, dir. Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee: IMDb / allmovie. The Count relocates from his castle to… Karlstadt? US vt Horror of Dracula.
1939 mystery/thriller, third in the Miss Silver series. Rachel Treherne inherited her father's fortune, and has carried on his desires as to how it would be used. But she is surrounded by parasitic relatives, and someone is trying to murder her…
1957 horror, dir. Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart: IMDb / allmovie. The Baron is awaiting execution for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Surely someone will listen?
1906 fantasy for children. Living in Sussex, Dan and Una run into Puck, who introduces them to a variety of historical characters.
2023 Regency fantasy romance. Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her clothing disintegrating at a ball in Bath; she is rescued by Georgiana, the scandalous "Duke of Annadale", whose father and three brothers died in quick succession (obviously by her witchcraft) leaving her in possession of the family's wealth. But curses are not so easily thwarted.
Back to the boardgame café.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved mildly abstruse string formatting. (Note that this ends today.)
1975 drama, dir. Miloš Forman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher; ImdB / allmovie. "I don't think he's overly psychotic, but, I still think he's quite sick."
2016 mystery, first in its series. In 1908, the widowed Lady Hardcastle and her faithful maid Armitage move to rural Gloucestershire for a quieter life than London can afford.
More gaming with nearby friends.
1973 horror, dir. Douglas Hickox, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg: IMDb / allmovie. Edward Lionheart was the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, in his own mind. He killed himself after being laughed out of contention for a critic's award. But now those critics are being bizarrely murdered.
2025 SF, seventeenth of its series. With Chimera still occupied, and relief having to wait for a massive ship-building programme, a diplomatic mission is sent to the other reezh worlds to see whether any of them can be persuaded to become allies.
1972 horror, dir. Robert Fuest, Vincent Price, Robert Quarry: IMDb / allmovie. That is not dead which can eternal lie…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string breakdowns. (Note that this ends today.)
2020 historical mystery; eighth in Huber's Lady Darby series (post-Regency amateur detection). Lady Darby, six months pregnant, is painting the portrait of the scandalous Duchess, and then a Twelfth Night party turns up a corpse in the cellar…
1971 horror, dir. Robert Fuest, Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten: IMDb / allmovie. Who is committing bizarre murders, and why?
Seven for games on a sunny November afternoon.
2013 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, second in the Ash Henderson series. The serial killer known as "The Inside Man" stopped eight years ago; now he seems to have come back. Ash Henderson, stuck in prison until the criminal underboss he annoyed chooses to let him die, is hauled out as part of a power play.
1992 drama, dir. James Foley, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon; ImdB / allmovie." The people are insane. They just like talking to salesmen."
The Oxford Meeples had another quarterly games day, and I had a great time again. (Yes, I've missed a few.)
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array scanning and transformations. (Note that this ends today.)
1981 action, dir. John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Adrienne Barbeau: IMDb / allmovie. Are you a bad enough dude to save the president?