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Hal C.F. Astell

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While I still have a day job to pay the bills, I'm a teacher by blood and a writer by the grace of the dread lord, which gradually transformed me into a film critic. I've reviewed the sort of films that most people don't at Apocalypse Later Reviews for fifteen years. I post two album reviews every weekday. I write book reviews for the Nameless Zine.

Born and raised in the rain of England, I'm still learning about the word "heat" over a decade after I moved to Phoenix, AZ, where I live with Dee, my much better half, in a house full of assorted critters and oddities, a library with a ghost guard ferret and more cultural artefacts than can comfortably be imagined. And I can imagine quite a lot.

I run the Apocalypse Later Empire. I have many book ...more

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	Huh?: An A-Z of Why Classic American Bad Movies Were Made by Hal C.F. Astell (Goodreads Author), Eric Schock (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Awesomely Awful '80s, Part 2 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Velvet Glove Cast in Iron: The Films of Tura Satana (Filmography Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Horror Movie Calendar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlie Chaplin Centennial: Keystone (Filmography Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival: The Transition Years (Festival Series) by Hal C.F. Astell (Goodreads Author), Mike Flanagan (Foreword), Andrea Canales (Afterword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hundred in 2016 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westercon 70 Program Guide by Hal C.F. Astell (Goodreads Author), Julie Dillon (Cover Design) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WTF!?: Films You Won't Believe Exist by Hal C.F. Astell (Goodreads Author), Dave Trombetti (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horns Ablaze #1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hal Astell made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please move books (profile issue) and delete one topic " I'm Hal C. F. Astell and my page is here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... My new releases on KDP aren't associating with my Goodreads profile a ...more "
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Hal Astell liked Krista Hammock's review of The Awesomely Awful '80s, Part 2: "The Awesomely Awful panels are my absolute favorite at Phoenix Fan Fusion. So when Hal told us about this book I knew I had to read it. He does an excellent job recapping the movies. Makes me want to watch the ones I have not seen yet. Can't wait to " Read more of this review »
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Hal Astell has read Patrimony (Pip & Flinx, #13) by Alan Dean Foster	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hal Astell rated a book really liked it The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1) by Joan Aiken	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I can't recall whether I read this 1962 novel when I was a child, but I could have sworn that I'd seen the 1989 feature film adaptation with Stephanie Beacham and Mel Smith. It didn't take too many pages to realise that I hadn't, because this isn't t ...more
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Hal Astell rated a book really liked it The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) by A.M. Shine (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
While some of the novels on the Books of Horror Go To List are obscure outside of extreme circles, others have cracked the mainstream powerfully enough that they've found life outside the horror community. 'The Watchers' is one of the latter because ...more
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Hal Astell rated a book really liked it Trolls by J.J.M. Czep (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My Arizona author last month was J. J. M. Czep, and I'm back with another of hers because I'd read 'Blackstrap's Ecstasy' before, albeit so long ago that it predates my debut at the Nameless Zine in June 2014, but I hadn't read 'Trolls'. It looks lik ...more
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Hal Astell rated a book really liked it To Outer Space by W.E. Johns	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The interplanetary adventures of Prof. Lucius Brane and his misfit collection of exceedingly British space travellers ran to ten books in all, but I was only aware as a kid of the six that were published in paperback and I haven't read them for almos ...more
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Hal Astell rated a book really liked it Stolen Pallor by Sean Eads (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was kindly given an ARC of 'Stolen Pallor' by its publishers a year ago but it wasn't out then and I hadn't realised that it eventually came out in July. So I'm a little late with this review, but I'm very happy that I dived in now. It's a novella t ...more
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