Author: Mike Kerns

“There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”  – Stephen King, Salem’s Lot, 1975 In his second published story, Stephen King had already begun to show his understanding of the horrors coming of age into adulthood.…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”20383″ img_size=”800×450″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]The Game of Thrones coverage on Geek Vibes Nation isn’t slowing down after the first 2 episodes of the final season. Mike (A Song of Ice & Fire book reader since 2000) and Danny (A “show only” superfan) are talking Thrones Zone on the newest episode of Geek Media Corps. Watch their roundtable discussion below or check out the podcasted version here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ENUkZU7MI] More Thrones coverage on the new season from GVN: Tia discusses series creator George R.R. Martin’s thoughts on the series ending mllkat discusses what we learned from season 8 episode 2 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”20201″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]I wrote previously about my reasons for finally deciding to dive into Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. Since the editor here is so nice, he has decided it was fine by him to continue chronicling my adventures as a novice through “Randland.” For those who missed it, I recorded these first three “video diaries” immediately after finishing each to help me keep track of what happened in which book and I recently decided to turn them into individual reviews. Below you will find the video review for the fourth book in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time; The…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”19834″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]The Game of Thrones coverage on Geek Vibes Nation isn’t slowing down just 3 days after the premiere. Mike (A Song of Ice & Fire book reader since 2000) and Danny (A “show only” superfan) are talking Thrones Zone on the newest episode of Geek Media Corps. Watch their roundtable discussion below. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClD8ukyhicU] More Thrones coverage on the new season from GVN: mllkat gives a detailed spoiler breakdown of what we learned from the season premiere Tia talks about the record ratings for the season premiere Geek Media Corps had their season preview and predictions episode…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”19922″ img_size=”845×426″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]While no official announcement has been made, according to the IMDB page for Kelly Valentine Hendry, Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time has found a casting director. Valentine has many esteemed credits in her casting director history such as BBC’s Broadchurch and the period piece series The Last Kingdom and  Harlots. For those worried she doesn’t do her homework, fear not. She posted a photo on her Instagram account over a month ago of her reading the first book in the Wheel of Time series. While news has slowly trickled in about the…

I wrote previously about my reasons for finally deciding to dive into Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. Since the editor here is so nice, he has decided it was fine by him to continue chronicling my adventures as a novice through “Randland.” For those who missed it, I recorded these first three “video diaries” immediately after finishing each to help me keep track of what happened in which book and I recently decided to turn them into individual reviews. Below you will find the video review for The Eye of The World, The Great Hunt, and The Dragon Reborn. I’m…

I already touched on my interest in the Wheel of Time series in my post asking if the soon to come Amazon series could be the successor to Game of Thrones. But since then I have read three and a half books in the 14 book long Wheel of Time and I came to a conclusion; I need to document this journey because it’s going to be a wild one. So, I started making “video diaries” to get my thoughts out there and I had planned to release them all after I finished the series. Turns out this video would…

Five -time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Julianne Moore is attached to play the title character of Lisey Landon.

“It’s probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls – as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets another, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human…

I wrote previously about Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 and the first look at the series. Since then, a highly positive reception at WonderCon and now a full trailer and release date for the AMC adaptation has been revealed. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpnZkAtVK2Y] Based on Hill’s 2013 best-selling novel of the same name, NOS4A2 follows Vic McQueen, a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx, a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls of children then deposits what remains of them into…