OK, go ahead, call me out of the loop. But I never heard of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror awards until today.

And this will be the eighth year they give the things out!

Though the more I think about it, the more I realize that what’s far more likely is that I have heard of them, only they got lost in the grooves of my brain with all the other awards handed out in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

But what got stirred up from the depths of those very same grooves is the memory of a weekend I spent with Rondo Hatton. Well … not the real Rondo Hatton. (You may think I’ve met everyone, but I really haven’t.)

You can see the Rondo Hatton I’m talking about in the photo below. (more…)