Carnival of souls

* The great Nick Bertozzi posts some links and thoughts about his MODOK story in Marvel’s Strange Tales anthology.

* Clive Barker and the guys who wrote the last few Saw movies (and a screenplay for the Hellraiser remake) are collaborating on a TV series called Clive Barker’s Hotel. Not sure how I feel about that, not sure I should even be allowed to post the minutiae of Barker’s film career anymore given that I still haven’t fucking seen The Midnight Meat Train, but there you have it. Clive Barker’s Hotel: They have eternity to know your flesh, and you have until 11am to check out.

* Torture Links of the Day: Is Attorney General Holder going to prosecute torture-interrogators who went beyond the Bush Administration’s legally dubious guidelines, thus essentially giving a pass both to those who tortured by the book and those who wrote that book? (Via Spencer Ackerman.) Was a fraud suspect reditioned out of Afghanistan and tortured under the Obama administration? (Note that this isn’t an “extraordinary rendition” case involving us snapping up a suspect and dumping him in another country that can torture with impunity–the man was brought to Virginia–but still.)

* Up close and personal with The Squirrel Machine author and longtime ADDTF fave Hans Rickheit:

(Via Chris Mautner.)