Saturday, October 21, 2017

The Devil Is Not Mocked, but Nazis Are

Earlier this week, there was a failed attempt by emo-boy Nazi Richard Spencer to spread his message of fourchan fascism on a Florida University campus. Spencer is best known for being punched on television and bringing Nazi-punching back into fashion. Nazis are irredeemable villains, the lesser of two evils in just about every matchup imaginable, as pulp master Manly Wade Wellman (whose Appalachian regional tales of supernatural menace are wonderful) illustrated in his tale The Devil Is Not Mocked. The story was adapted as a fun segment of Rod Serling's Night Gallery:



Night Gallery S2E06 A Question Of Fear, The... by carsambadizileri


The ending is pretty well telegraphed from the get-go, but the whole thing is entertaining enough that this foreshadowing is forgivable.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So about the tiger man job.... we need pictures now please

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Better a tiger man than a cheetah man.

Sirius Lunacy said...

I still lean towards Puma Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnRxbH5Ay4I