The movie New Moon is released today. It is the first film in the Twilight series to have actual werewolf content, as opposed to implied werewolf content, like the first film had.

The first episode of the second season of True Blood will premiere on HBO tonight. The first season was based on the first novel in the "Southern Vampire Mysteries" series and this second season is based on the second novel.

There is substantial transformation content, because one of the main characters is a weredog of sorts (technically, he is called a "shifter" and can transform into any animal, but in practice it is basically always a dog). Furthermore, if the TV series follows the second novel at all faithfully, there will be other shapeshifters as well, including werewolves.

If you haven't seen the TV series or read the books, what should you start with? I think both are good, but they have different characteristics. The novels are more "fluffy" like a beach read, and have simpler plot lines. The TV show is much darker in tone (there is quite a lot of gore, including some really gross sex scenes) and has more subplots and character development. I think the TV series has a richer storyline, particularly since the novels are very first-person but the TV series is willing to show us a lot more of what other characters were doing when the main character isn't around.

May the 4th be with you!

(If you don't get it, read aloud)

(If you still don't get it, check the date of this post)

Peter is the Wolf, an online comic that has so far focused on werewolves (with just one minor character werefox seen briefly) has recently begun a new storyline. A number of new, non-werewolf shapeshifters have just been introduced in the last few panels, including a second werefox, a tanuki (sort of), plus a werecoyote, werelion, wererat and werebear. If you love shapeshifters but you haven't gotten into Peter is the Wolf yet because you tend to get bored by the over-saturation of werewolves, check it out!

Here is the official website and here are various articles.

By the way, the articles have one thing wrong. The shapeshifter in the original music video was not a werewolf, but a werecat. This is according to the making-of video and it is also what director John Landis and star Michael Jackson have always said about the Thriller music video. However, since nearly everyone thinks of that creature as a werewolf, I suspect that it probably is a werewolf in the Broadway musical version.

According to an article at Variety and the comic creator's website, the horror comic Welcome to Hoxford will be made into a film.

The plot is about werewolves who run an institution for the criminally insane - an institution where patients check in, but they never check out. It looks like it could be a good, scary film. The art, though, makes the werewolves look kind of like giant bat/rabbit creatures so I do hope they'll get a better creature design for the film itself.

Today is the official release date for Princess Resurrection.

If you want to know why this news is of interest to werewolf and transformation fans, see my previous post about this anime.

According to this newsletter and also previous newsletters, work is still proceeding on an anime movie adaptation of the first novel in Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series, Split Infinity, which has werewolves as well as shapeshifting unicorns. Also, towards the end of the series, shapeshifting aliens show up, but they might not go on to adapt anything beyond the first novel, so we'll have to wait and see.

The novel series is about Phaze and Proton, two linked worlds, with one being based on science and the other on magic. On Phaze, the humans are dominant, with unicorns, werewolves and vampires being the most common non-human species. The unicorns are the only ones who get to choose their forms. Each unicorn can turn into two (or rarely three) other forms, and normally one of those chosen forms is human. Refreshingly, instead of there being a vampire/werewolf war or rivalry, as is found in so much fiction, the unicorns and werewolves are sworn enemies instead.

In related news, Warner Pictures has dropped their plans to make a movie based on the first novel of another Piers Anthony series, the Xanth series, however Disney is still apparently going ahead with plans to turn the Incarnations of Immortality novels into a TV series. The Xanth series did not have extensive shapeshifting until a number of books in, when shapeshifter Prince Dolph became a main character for awhile. The Incarnations of Immortality series has a horse who can shapeshift into any vehicle, and that's about as much shapeshifting as you get. So, of the three Piers Anthony series that had been optioned for TV or movies, Split Infinity is the one with the largest amount of content for shapeshifter and werewolf fans.

In keeping with the trend whereby a greater number of television shows are available online, and not just by pirating them, the online existences of two more werewolf-related shows have come to my attention recently:

Groovie Goolies - all 16 episodes are watchable here at joost.com. This is a 1970s cartoon that is a spin-off of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Being Human - supposedly, this is watchable on the BBC channel's iPlayer, but I haven't been able to find it. If anyone can drop me a hint on how to watch it there, I'd appreciate it.

Edited to add:
Here's some links for Being Human:

Pilot: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7EA22B9642A9D3BA

Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4D82757FB54D3E47

Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=847CC8AE8BC9D1B8

Episode 4: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9BF7E8BD725AE25E

Episode 5: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8F0EF3856854A758

Episode 6: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CBD8B8604C99B7FF

War Wolves premieres tonight on The Sci-Fi Channel as the Sunday Original Movie at 9PM Eastern Time (8PM Central). Also, there are werewolf movies on most of today, with Never Cry Werewolf following War Wolves.

I now have more information about three upcoming films with werewolf/shapeshifter content that I had previously blogged about:

Neowolf - The Band from Hell had been scheduled for a February 2009 release. Now, the official website says it will come out in March instead.

Shifter has been renamed Cross and Morningstar Films has announced on its blog that filming will begin this coming May or June and that a graphic novel version will appear on March 15th (see this link). Unfortunately, the further information that has become available about the plot sounds more as if this will be about vampires. Mentions of shapeshifting are now gone from the plot descriptions.

War Wolves now has a premiere date. It will premiere on The Sci-Fi Channel on Sunday, March 8th (at 9PM Eastern Time, 8PM Central). If you miss it then, you've got a second chance to see it on April 11th. You can see the trailer here.

The webcomic Bite Me by Dylan Meconis is going to appear as a print graphic novel. Although it is mostly about vampires, one main character is a werewolf.

A similar character currently appears in the webcomic Family Man by the same author. Family Man has no explicit werewolf content so far, simply because the plot hasn't progressed to that point yet, but it is supposed to mainly be about werewolves. According to the author, it is not a prequel to Bite Me, even though it may superficially appear to be one. It is more like a rethinking of some of the same characters, in a totally different setting and with a different plot. The art in Family Man is particularly high in quality.

Below I've posted my current list of upcoming movies and TV shows with werewolf and/or shapeshifter content. Especially in the case of films, upcoming projects can always get canceled before they appear, but the converse is also true: projects that seem to be dead can miraculously revive even after spending more than a decade in development hell.

If I've forgotten anything, please feel free to add comments correcting me or mentioning projects I missed. I'd love to hear from you.

Release dates that are known with some precision are bolded to help you skim to the projects that are likely to appear sooner and/or more reliably.

Current List of Upcoming Films:

Animals - supposedly, this has recently been released, but since I haven't been able to find any evidence of it, I'm still categorizing it as upcoming. My guess is that the film is finished but unreleased because they haven't been able to find a distributor yet. There are only a bare handful of reviews online, all seemingly from the sort of people who get advance copies before everyone else does, the official website is broken, and I even tried emailing the script writer but that email just bounces. From the few reviews, it sounds like a bad film. If true, that's a shame, since it is based on a novel that is quite good.

Bad Dog - unknown status, almost certainly a dead project. The script for this werewolf comedy by the writer of My Cousin Vinny was optioned to DreamWorks in 1997 for $3 million, but I haven't heard about any further news in years.

Beast aka Timo Rose's Beast - no release date yet, but the release year is supposed to be 2009.

Beast of the East - there is almost no information about this one so far.

Benighted - no known release date, but it currently has some big names attached. Based on the novel.

Bitten - unknown, probably a dead project. This movie version of the novel of the same name was rumored to have Angelina Jolie set to star as the main character female werewolf, but most of those articles have now been removed from various sites.

Blade 4 aka Blade: Nightstalkers - unknown status, but almost certainly a dead project. The announced fourth movie in the Blade series was rumored to be about hunting down werewolves, based on an alternate deleted ending included as an extra on the Blade: Trinity DVD. However, instead of a fourth movie appearing, the movie trilogy was instead followed by a TV series that was about hunting vampires, not werewolves. It seems likely that we will never see Wesley Snipes hunting werewolves in a fourth Blade film.

Camp Lycanthrope - unknown release date, as no studio has picked up the project yet. It is planned as a 2-D animated film in a style similar to Don Bluth's style (seen in The Secret of NIMH) and is about sympathetic werewolves (think "wolf transformations as a power" instead of a curse) in Mexico getting in danger because of a silver mine. Some really nice-looking artwork and sample animations used to be online, but these have all been removed (I think to avoid scaring off any potential studio interest). The animator is Matt Sullivan.

Cirque Du Freak - no release date yet, but the release year is supposed to be 2009

The Coffin - October 31, 2009. A coffin forms a framing device for multiple shorts, including one with a werewolf.

Cursed 2 - unknown release date. This is probably a dead project, since I haven't heard anything about it for a long time. When they made Cursed, they re-wrote the script in extreme ways after a lot of footage had been shot. Some reports even said that the movie was essentially finished when they decided to redo it in such an extreme way that the already-shot footage was useless. In either case, there was quite a bit of footage that was never put into the film at all. Around the time Cursed was released, articles came out saying that the studio planned to assemble the unused footage and maybe shoot a little more to connect it better, then call the result Cursed 2 and release it straight to video. Since this hasn't happened in the past 3 years, I suspect that it will never happen.

Death Walks the Streets - no known release date; with the official website currently saying nothing at all about the film, however Wikipedia has links to hordes of articles anticipating its release. It seems this film is very highly anticipated and has been for some time, despite the very slow progress toward actually making it.

Dog Soldiers: Fresh Meat - unknown status, I suspect that plans to make it have been dropped. On the other hand, some movies have taken a long time to be made with little news. For example, Blood & Chocolate took about ten years from the first announcement of a film being made until the film actually appeared, and sometimes went for very long time periods with no news.

First Howl aka Howl aka Love Bites - 2009 release. A satire of detective films.

Frankenstein vs The Wolfman - no release date yet, but the film is finished, circulating in festivals and viewable online (however without the 3D effect).

Freeborn - unknown status. I haven't heard any new news about this for a year or so. See my previous blog posts on the subject.

Full Moon Fever - unknown status. There has been no news for so long that I'm pretty sure this project has likely been dropped. Based on the graphic novel by Joe Casey.

The Ghouly Boys - 2010 release. Based on the comic books, this (probably animated) film is set to have a cute little orphaned werewolf cub (named Puppy) as one of the main characters. Updates as the the film's status should appear at this link.

Hotel Transylvania - September 30, 2011. An animated film with a large cast of classic Hollywood monsters.

Hyenas - unknown release date. This is about were-hyenas in the United States. It is described as humorous and more like old-fashioned monster films than it is like modern horror.

In the Blood - unknown status. One of several planned Steve Niles films. It had previously been reported that they would start filming it immediately after finishing 30 Days of Night, but now the order of the upcoming films had been changed, with Wake the Dead being the next to get filmed, and there is little mention of In the Blood anymore. Of course, if the second film does well, it will become much more likely they'll make the third.

In the Shadow of the Moon - unknown release date. However, this is perfectly normal since work on it is just starting.

Jack and Diane - unknown status. It seems some kind of delay has set in. Lesbian werewolves?

Lobo - no release date yet, since they've barely begun making it. This is supposed to be the first of a trilogy about Brazilian werewolves.

The Lycanthrope - unknown release date. It is finished (it was shown at various film festivals) but I can't find any evidence it has actually been released. The official site hasn't been updated in a long time.

Lycan Rising - unknown status. I haven't been able to locate any recent information about this film, and it seems that perhaps it isn't being made anymore. The official site is dead. According to pretty-scary.net the film was being directed by Melinda Marroquin, with a screen play by C.H. Morris and being produced by Carter Robinson (Phoenix Productions). The plot description sounds similar to Neowolf (scroll down to the "N" section) but it looks like none of the same people are involved, so this probably isn't a case of a renamed film.

Mark of the Wolf - unknown release date, but perhaps 2009. This is an upcoming full-length film and a related web series of short films. The film itself and the web series episodes 3 through 10 or so are still upcoming (see episode one and episode two).

Monstrous Nature - unknown release date. This is a nun vs. werewolf movie.

Neowolf - The Band from Hell - February 2009

New Moon - release set for November 20, 2009. Based on the novel, it will be a sequel to the recently-released movie Twilight, which does not have any explicit werewolf content in it.

Shifter - 2009 release. It is unclear whether this is about a werewolf or some other type of shapeshifter.

Spider-Man 4 and/or Spider-Man 5 - the idea that a werewolf villain will appear in one of the upcoming Spider-Man movies is rumor only, but it is based at least in part on events in Spider-Man 2. The reasoning goes like this: in the film Spider-Man 2, Spidey's love interest Mary Jane is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, who is a werewolf supervillain in the comics. Furthermore, in the movie, John Jameson has a scene where he is crooning, and the croon gradually changes into a howl, seeming to imply that the writers did intend to eventually make him into a werewolf character. Also, this character would have a good reason to go after Spider-Man since Spider-Man stole his fiancée. Of course, even if the writers were intending to expand the John Jameson plotline in future films, they could have dropped that idea by now. We'll just have to wait and see.

Summerland - unknown status, and it is probably a dead project. To be based on a novel of the same name by Michael Chabon. The novel has a "werefox" in it as a main character (albeit one who never transforms even once in the course of the book) along with some shapeshifting monsters.

Teen Wolf (remake) - unknown release date, and with such small amounts of information about it lately, it seems this project may have died. See my previous blog posts on the subject.

There's a Werewolf in My Attic - no known release date, as there is no distributor as yet, but the film is finished. Reportedly it was made for $100. It showed at the Slamdance Film Festival with good reviews. The makers are talking about remaking it on a larger budget.

Trick 'r Treat - unknown release date. Seemingly finished, but with no distributor yet.

Twilight Watch - the American release is set for 2009, no exact date so far. This is the third film in a trilogy, following the films Night Watch and Day Watch, which featured various transformations and shapeshifters, including a weretiger and werebear.

Van Helsing 2 - unknown release date. In my opinion, this is most likely a dead project. Right after Van Helsing was released, there was an announcement of a sequel.

War Wolves - apparently March 2009, on the Sci-Fi Channel. However, I haven't found an exact release day yet.

Werewolf by Night - unknown release date. I have not seen any recent information about this project. Hans Rodionoff was making a script at one point, but it seems it never started filming. Based on the comic books.

The Wolf Man (remake) - currently November 6, 2009, but since the release date has been moved twice before, who knows if it will move again?

Wolfed - unknown, almost certainly a dead project since the last time I heard about it was in 2002. Based on an obscure 1904 novel by the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

The Writing on the Moon - unknown release date.

Current List of Upcoming Television Shows:

Being Human - release date January 25, 2009, according to the BBC Being Human blog. The pilot was aired in 2008, but the series hasn't aired yet.

Bitches, for the Fox network. Seems to be a Sex and the City imitation with werewolves, by the makers of Trick 'r Treat

Guardians of Luna - unknown status, though I've heard it rumored for fall 2009. An animated show that has been touring conventions for some time and generating a lot of interest online. It has werewolves and shapeshifting dragons.

Nightwolf - unknown release date. About a werewolf who only kills the bad guys.

Teen Wolf - unknown status, but with no news for this long it is probably a dead project. UPN had planned a live-action TV series based loosely on the film (an animated series already exists).

Untitled - Jake Kennedy is reportedly working on a TV show about a female werewolf. I haven't been able to find out what it might be titled.

Van Helsing - a TV series sequel to Van Helsing, that, like Van Helsing 2 the movie (discussed above), also seems to be a dead project.

Tags: cursed, dragons, foxes, movies, shapeshifters, teen wolf, television, werecats, werewolf update, werewolves

The third movie in the Underworld trilogy, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, appears in theaters today. The first film is Underworld, the second is Underworld: Evolution, and this third is a prequel. All three films deal with a centuries-long war between vampires and werewolves.

The book is Timothy and the Dragon's Gate by Adrienne Kress.

It is high on shapeshifter content, but low on shapeshifting content.

Let me explain. One of the main characters is a shapeshifter of the draconic kind, so that makes the shapeshifter content quite high. However, this character is trapped in human form, and (according to the author's communication with me) there is basically only one transformation in the book. So that makes the shapeshifting content low.

If you're a transformation enthusiast who doesn't mind reading about shapeshifters who hardly ever display their powers, then you might want to check out this book. Or, you may like it if you enjoy reading teen fantasy novels and you aren't explicitly looking for lots of transformations.

Timothy and the Dragon's Gate is a sequel to Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, which got good reviews.

Recent werewolf (and other shapeshifter) DVD releases include:

The Incredible Hulk Complete Series a much better collection of the classic 1970s live action TV show than the incomplete and shoddy previous release. The series is also available in individual seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The 2008 movie was also released recently.

Ski Wolf, a Teen Wolf parody.

The Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman, aka Werewolf Shadow, a Spanish classic from the Waldemar Daninsky series of films starring Paul Naschy. It is the fourth in the series, but the films are loosely connected and can be watched out of order.

Necroville, a multi-monster film that, from the plot descriptions I've read, seems to focus more on the vampires and zombies than the werewolves. It is supposed to be a spoof along same lines as Shaun of the Dead.

Never Cry Werewolf, a film with a number of stupid plot twists, but enough good stuff (such as using different ideas than are generally seen in werewolf films) to almost make up for the bad stuff. For a werewolf movie, it's fairly decent: not great, but not terrible either.

Monster Mash, an animated movie for kids.

Teen Titans - The Complete Fifth Season, the final season, in which shapeshifter superhero Beast Boy and his friends take on supervillains.

Hybrid, a not-quite-werewolf movie that, unfortunately, was advertised as a werewolf movie and as a horror movie, though it is not really either. It presents more of an otherkin idea. Some werewolf fans will like it, but those who don't will probably hate it quite fiercely.

An Erotic Werewolf in London, an attempt to parody An American Werewolf in London with lesbian werewolves. It reportedly has sex scenes lifted from other films.

Bloodspit, which is mainly a vampire movie but has some werewolf content. It is made in the tradition of movies that deliberately try to be bad in order to be funny.

Aconite, formerly known as Wolfsbayne, about werewolves, gypsies and the devil.

Although it has not appeared on DVD yet, I also wanted to mention Nature of the Beast, an ABC Family Channel original movie, which could until recently be watched online in its entirety here (but the site currently seems to be undergoing maintenance). It is a not a horror movie, but rather a lightweight comedy in the tradition of Teen Wolf (though the humor is darker and there is a small amount of violence). If you're undecided about whether to watch it, you can see the trailer here.

Tags: humor, movies, otherkin, shapeshifters, teen wolf, television, werewolf update, werewolves, zombies

I have good news and bad news about the anime Princess Resurrection (aka Monster Princess or Kaibutsu Oujo).

The reason I'm even posting about Princess Resurrection is because it is an anime that has a lot of werewolf and shapeshifter content. A main character, Riza Wildman, is a half-werewolf, other werewolves often show up, and there is a werecat, a wereshark (to those who are always looking for queer shapeshifters, take note, the wereshark is a lesbian) and a race of immortal phoenixes who can assume human form (these phoenixes are quite central to the plot, but we don't find out about them until the last few episodes). Plus, there is a tanuki vampire hunter minor character, but he doesn't seem to be a shapeshifter.

The bad news is that most of the free videos have been removed from the Internet. The good news is that the show will be licensed and distributed in America.

Of course, these two events are linked. The widescale removal is because of the licensing and upcoming release set for March 17, 2009. However, they haven't managed to remove everything quite yet. If you're curious about Princess Resurrection it would be best to catch these remaining online videos before they disappear as well:

http://www.rawranime.com/category/767/ (English subtitles, has links for all episodes)

http://www.imeem.com/tag/princess%20resurrection/ (Mostly with English subtitles, particularly this playlist)

http://www.wonderfulanime.com/kaibutsu-oujo-episode-01/ (some have English subtitles, has links for all episodes)

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=7760749180508703729 (English subtitles, 1st episode only)

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/monster%2Bprincess (some subbed, some raw, not all episodes)

There are also non-English-language videos here

After the season finale, there are two bonus episodes, generally called episode 25 and episode 26. The last one, episode 26, is especially difficult to locate online, but I found one English subbed copy here.

Tags: anime, princess resurrection, shapeshifters, tanuki, werecats, werewolf update, werewolves

The long-anticipated 2009 remake of the classic 1941 film The Wolf Man, probably the most famous werewolf movie of all time, has been delayed for the second time. At first, the release was scheduled for this coming February. Then it was rescheduled to April 2009. Recently, a much longer delay has been announced, with the release date moved months ahead to November 6, 2009.

This is bad news. As I have discussed before with the film Skinwalkers, movie studios rarely delay a film's release date when things are going well. A delay is usually indicative of problems in the film. Multiple delays usually indicate worse problems. For example, it has been a joke among werewolf fans that the werewolf movie Cursed was aptly named, since it suffered from so many delays during production, with such extreme rewriting of the script that the first plot description that was publicized (a serial killer gradually being converted into a werewolf) had nothing to do with the final version of the film.

I'm hoping that the 2009 remake of The Wolf Man will be a decent werewolf movie. There's few enough of those already. But, though I hope, I don't have much faith. The entire process of remaking a classic film is so hard to do well in any case. In this case, with two delays signaling the likely presence of serious problems, it seems there is only a small chance we'll get a decent film.

I recently read a really enjoyable manga called Japan Tengu Party Illustrated (original language: Dai-Nippon Tengu-tō Ekotoba) by Kuroda Iou. I really wish it were legitimately available in English, but so far the only availability is on fan sites such as One Manga (where you can read it in its entirety).

The story involves shapeshifters from Japanese mythology known as the tengu. In this particular fictional universe, the tengu transform by a strange process. A bird (usually a crow) exits the mouth and the human body becomes unconscious (the tengu's consciousness is then in the newly-formed bird body). Then, when the bird re-enters the mouth and dissolves back into a union with the human form, the human body awakens once again. The tengu have powers in addition to changing between bird and human: they can also can fly in human form, and they can work magic.

Japan Tengu Party Illustrated follows Shinobu, a young woman who was kidnapped by a tengu as a child and is on the verge of becoming a full-fledged tengu herself. Before Shinobu can complete the conversion process, two big developments turn her life into chaos. First, Shinobu re-discovers the remnants of her long-lost human family. Second, the remaining tengu in Japan go public with their abilities and form a political party with the stated goal of converting every Japanese person into a tengu.

The tone of the entire work is wonderful, very dense with plot (unlike the thin plots of many mangas) and full of a splendid mix of mystery, spookiness and loneliness. There are quite a number of meaty philosophical questions (Are politics inherently dirty? What is the nature of belief? How should we judge our own actions? What makes a family real?) presented in a way that is interesting rather than preachy. I was also pleased that the ending was very much like the ending of a novel, with a satisfying sense of closure instead of the completely open-ended "ends" found in many manga series.

I'm quite taken with Japan Tengu Party Illustrated, and I'd love to see it licensed for sale in America. I even think it would make a good film.

Exactly two years ago I averaged my unique visitor hits for each of my eight main websites over the most recent three complete months (August, September and October of 2006) and got these statistics.

So, today I decided to do a repeat and see how things have changed. Here are the new stats, averaged over the last three complete months (August, September and October of 2007), once again listed in order of popularity:

#1: The Cryptid Zoo averages 9,403 per month (303 per day). The per-month average went up by 6,480 as compared to 2 years ago (see current stats). Its skyrocketing popularity probably has more to do with the increased visibility of the subject of cryptids than with anything I've done, as the website hasn't changed much in 2 years.

#2: Shapeshifter Emporium averages 2,806 per month (90 per day). The per-month average increased by 1,155 over the last 2 years (see current stats). It also moved up from spot #3 to become my #2 most popular website.

#3: Portal of Transformation averages 2,530 per month (81 per day). The per-month average went up by 454 (see current stats). However, its place slipped from #2 to #3.

#4: Cryptozoology Emporium averages 784 per month (25 per day). The per-month average increased by 265 unique visitors (see current stats).

#5: Monster Mania averages 607 per month (19 per day). The per-month average increased by 201 as compared to 2 years ago (see current stats).

#6: Zombie Emporium averages 515 per month (16 per day). The per-month average increased by 152 unique visitors (see current stats).

#7: Jamie Hall, Author - Personal Home Page averages 514 per month (16 per day). The per-month average has decreased by 255 as compared to 2 years ago (see current stats). Additionally, there was a slip from my #4 most popular website to #7. This is because most of the material that used to draw visitors has been removed from my home page as part of a renovation process that is still incomplete.

#8: Ghosts & Phantoms Emporium averages 426 per month (13 per day). The per-month average increased by 85 unique visitors (see current stats).

The overall pattern is up quite a bit. I'm getting almost twice as many visitors. Two years ago, 9,068 resulted from adding all the per-month averages together, but now it is 17,585. However, just like the old total of 9,068, I'm sure that 17,585 per month (567 per day) is ridiculously high because many of my "unique visitors" from one website probably go on to visit one or more of the other websites on the same day, and so get counted twice. A more realistic number is probably half of that, which is still pretty good.

Sadly, all of these websites need to be updated. I really wish I'd earned the extra visitors through continual website improvements and updates, but the truth is that I've done little. College has overwhelmed my life for about a year, but I'll probably be able to do website updates over Christmas vacation.