Please Note That There Has Been a Change to My Facebook Group

The Scott Baker Demon Hunters Facebook group is no longer active and I have no further association with it. I’ve created a new group -- Scott M. Baker's Realm of Zombies, Monsters, and the Paranormal. This group will carry on where the old one left off with the same fun, bizarre shenanigans, horror posts, and terrible dad jokes. If you don’t receive an invite, please just click on the link above and ask to join. Thanks.

My Visit to the Gravesite of Claude Rains

Every fan of movies from the 1930s and 1940s knows Claude Rains. He was born in 1889 in London, served with the London Scottish Regiment in World War I where he suffered almost complete vision loss in one eye due to a chemical attack, and soon after began an acting career that spanned over forty years on both stage and screen. Some of his more memorable movie roles included Senator Paine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood (1938), and Julius Caesar in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). However, his most memorable role is that of Captain Louise Renault, the Vichy police officer who walks the line between resistance and collaboration in the classic film Casablanca (1942). 

Horror fans will more likely recognize him as Erique from The Phantom of the Opera (1943), Dr. Jack Griffin from The Invisible Man (1933), and Sir John Talbot who beats to death his son Lawrence (Lon Chaney, Jr.) with a silver-tipped wolf cane in The Wolfman (1941). 

Claude Rains retired from acting in 1965 and spent his final years in Sandwich, New Hampshire with his sixth wife Rosemary Clark Schrode. He attempted to write his memoirs, a task he failed to complete due to failing health. Claude Rains died of cirrhosis of the liver on 30 May 1967). 

Claude Rains and his sixth wife are buried in Red Hill Cemetery in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, on the northern tip of Lake Winnipesauke a few miles from their home in Sandwich. If you look just to the right of center in the bottom photograph, you can see the two graves near the picket fence.

Claude Rains designed the four-foot-tall, bullet-shaped obsidian gravestones and chose the quotation engraved on the front. 

This is Claude Rains' residence in Sandwich where he and Rosemary lived until their deaths. If you happen to go looking for the house, please be considerate of the residents who currently live there.

I hope you enjoyed this little tour of the local grave of a Hollywood legend. I'll hopefully be posting more of these over the summer. 

Remember the Fallen on Memorial Day

Let's spend a few minutes today remembering the men and women who put on the uniform of an armed service to defend this country and never took it off. We owe them everything.

I Will Be In the Asylum of Fear This Saturday

This Saturday, 28 May, from 11 AM to 6 PM EST, The Asylum of Fear will be hosting a day-long podcast, including the usual Written Undead and Padded Room podcasts, as well as one hour interviews of some of your favorite authors. There will be games and swag and more laughs than should be legal.

Not only will I be doing the morning interview, I'll be one of the inmates in The Padded Room at 4 PM. Here's the schedule of events.

11am Eastern Scott Baker

12pm Eastern Dee Cooper

1 pm Eastern Richard Ryan Rose

2pm Eastern Written Undead Podcast

3pm Eastern Josh Chadd

4pm Eastern The Padded Room

5pm Eastern The Padded Room

Happy Mother's Day

 

Happy Mother's Day to all the mother's out there and to all the women who served as mother figures. You are a blessing.

Check Out The Chronicles of Paul

For those of you who are fans of my Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies series, check out The Chronicles of Paul: A Nurse Alissa Spin-Off. The second book in the series will be coming out this fall.

No one said the end of the world would be easy, especially when your former lover is lost in the middle of it.

Paul Madison is on a business trip to Pittsburgh when the zombie outbreak erupts. As the living dead fill the streets, he abandons the idea of sheltering in place and attempts a six-hundred-mile trek to his fully stocked cabin in the New Hampshire mountains. Part of his reasoning to head north is his concern for his former wife Alissa, who is a nurse at Mass General Hospital in Boston.

Though Paul expected the journey to be dangerous, he had no idea of the nightmares he would encounter. Will he make it to his mountain cabin before society collapses around him? Will the strangers he encounters along the way be more of a liability than an asset? Will he find out what happened to Alissa?

Follow Paul on his adventure in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.

The First Three Nurse Alissa Books Are Available For Free on Audible

The first three books in the Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies series are available on Audible. I hope to start transferring the rest of the series onto audio by the end of the year. They're narrated by Naomi Rose-Mock who has done a phenomenal job in bringing Alissa and the other characters to life. 

The good news is that if you sign up for for a 30 day free trial with Audible Premium Plus, you can select any of the Nurse Alissa Audible books for free. Please check out the links below to hear a sample reading from each Audible and sign up for the free trial. Thank you.

Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies

Nurse Alissa vs the Zombies II: Escape

Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies III: Firestorm