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Primary NICHOLAS CAGE acted in the two GHOST RIDER movies, SEASON OF THE WITCH, the 2009 ASTRO BOY, the 2010 SORCERERS APPRENTICE, and TEEN TITANS GO TO THE MOVIES.

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Peripheral JAMES CAGNEY acted in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM with--

Primary VICTORY JORY, a.k.a. THE SHADOW.

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Primary DEAN CAIN is  best known for his version of Superman in LOIS AND CLARK, and also acted in FUTURESPORT and episodes of SMALLVILLE, LOST, and SUPER HERO HIGH.

THE BLACK CAT (1843)

The justly famous BLACK CAT is particularly amusing for its inversion of the rational mode of Poe's own detective Dupin. Poe knows that no one reading the story will credit the narrator's opening statements:

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified — have tortured — have destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them. To me, they have presented little but Horror — to many they will seem less terrible than baroques. Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place — some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.

Obviously, though Poe never shows the reader a literal ghost, any more than he did in METZGERSTEIN, he surrounds his titular feline with so many weird coincidences that no reader seriously believes that the cat can be explained by "very natural causes and effects."

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Primary JAMES CAAN acted in ROLLERBALL DICK TRACY, ALIEN NATION and the 2008 GET SMART.

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Primary BRUCE CABOT acted in KING KONG, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS.

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Primary SEBASTIAN CABOT (left) acted in an episode of ZORRO.

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Peripheral SUSAN CABOT (left) acted in WAR OF THE SATELLITES with--

Primary DICK MILLER of SMALL SOLDIERS.

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Primary ADOLF CAESAR acted in an episode of THE WILD WILD WEST and voiced a couple of characters for SILVERHAWKS.

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Peripheral SID CAESAR acted in the 1985 ALICE IN WONDERLAND with--

Primary TELLY SAVALAS  from ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE.

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Primary GABRIEL BYRNE acted in THE COOL WORLD, VAMPIRE ACADEMY, EXCALIBUR, and END OF DAYS.

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Primary ROSE BYRNE acted in SPY, ATTACK OF THE CLONES, X-MEN FIRST CLASS,
and X-MEN APOCALYPSE.

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Primary EDD BYRNES, (not shown and once known as "Kookie" of 77 SUNSET STRIP), acted in episodes of THE MASTER and KUNG FU: THE LEGEND CONTINUES.

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Primary JIM BYRNES acted in episodes of HIGHLANDER, V, SANCTUARY, SUPERNATURAL, and ANDROMEDA, and voiced characters in WAR OF THE WORLDS: GOLIATH, HIGHLANDER: THE SEARCH FOR VENGEANCE, SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED, and many others.

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Peripheral ARTHUR BYRON (left) acted in the 1932 MUMMY with--

Primary BORIS KARLOFF of THE MASK OF FU MANCHU.

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Primary KATHLEEN BYRON acted in an episode of THE AVENGERS.

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Primary SUSAN BYUN (left) acted in SERGEANT KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D.

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Primary MERRITT BUTRICK acted in two STAR TREK films (as Kirk's son)  and in WIRED TO KILL, and episodes of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.

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Primary PAT BUTTRAM, best known as "Mister Haney" on GREEN ACRES, acted in an episode of KNIGHT RIDER and voiced one of Eddie Valiant's bullets in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

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Peripheral SARAH BUXTON acted in an episode of FREDDY'S NIGHTMARES with--

Primary ROBERT ENGLUND, who becomes a "combative villain" in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS.

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Primary RUTH BUZZI  acted in PANDEMONIUM, played the Captain Marvel villainess "Aunt Minerva"  on LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES, and voiced characters on PLASTIC MAN, DARKWING DUCK, THE SAVAGE DRAGON, and WILD COW BOYS OF MOO MESA.

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Primary SPRING BYINGTON acted in an episode of the 1966 BATMAN.

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Primary JOHN BYNER acted in an episode of GET SMART and voiced characters in SWAT KATS.

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Primary RALPH BYRD played "Dick Tracy" in several features/serials, including DICK TRACY,
DICK TRACY RETURNS and DICK TRACY'S G-MEN, and also essayed characters in BLAKE OF SCOTLAND YARD, SOS COAST GUARD, the 1940 MARK OF ZORRO, and THE VIGILANTE.

THE GOLD-BUG (1843)

This story involves two white guys and a black former slave hunting for treasure on an island off the coast of South Carolina. There are a few macabre touches, as with the titular bug, which seems to have a "death's head" on its back. Still, the story handles its mystery-solving elements in a thoroughly naturalistic manner, much like the latter two Dupin stories. Poe handles the flow of dialogue in this story better than any previous tale, though most readers, including myself, will find precious little humor in the language-mangling of the mush-mouthed ex-slave.

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Primary FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN acted in the 1937 DICK TRACY and an episode of the 1966 BATMAN.

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Primary DICK BUTKUS acted in the series BLUE THUNDER and episodes of WONDER WOMAN, THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN.

Primary DAWS BUTLER voiced hundreds of cartoon characters, though very few appeared on super-type shows, with the exceptions of SUPER SIX, PETER POTAMUS, and JONNY QUEST.

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Primary GERARD BUTLER acted in 300, GODS OF EGYPT, both HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films and a short thereof, BEOWULF AND GRENDEL, LARA CROFT-- CRADLE OF LIFE, REIGN OF FIRE, TOMORROW NEVER DIES, and DRACULA 2000.

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Primary YANCY BUTLER is most famous for her depiction of the heroine of WITCHBLADE, and has also acted in DEATH RACE 2050, KICK ASS 1 & 2, WOLVESBAYNE, and the "Machine" part of MANN AND MACHINE.

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Primary STEVE BUSCEMI acted in ESCAPE FROM L.A. and in two SPY KIDS films, as well as voicing a character in an animated TRANSFORMERS film.

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Primary GARY BUSEY acted in PREDATOR 2, SOLDIER, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 2, and episodes of KUNG FU and FROM DUSK TO DAWN.

Primary JAKE BUSEY acted in STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE FRIGHTENERS, and episodes of CHARMED, FROM DUSK TO DAWN, and AGENTS OF SHIELD.

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Primary TIMOTHY BUSFIELD acted in episodes of LOIS AND CLARK and SLEEPY HOLLOW.

MONSTER MASHUPS #29

Just caught the 3-minute "couch gag" segment for 2013's SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XXIV. In addition to numerous other horror "quotes," it included all of the major Universal monsters chasing the Simpsons, with the monsters wielding the torches this time round.

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Primary MARYEDITH BURRELL (not shown) acted in EVE OF DESTRUCTION and an episode of LOIS AND CLARK.

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Primary TY BURRELL, best known for MODERN FAMILY, voiced "Captain Marvel" in THE SUPER HERO SQUAD SHOW and acted in THE INCREDIBLE HULK.

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Primary JACKIE BURROUGHS acted in an episode of SMALLVILLE and voiced "Katherine" in the "Den" episode of HEAVY METAL.

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Primary ELLEN BURSTYN has one credit, an episode of THE TIME TUNNEL

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Primary LEVAR BURTON became renowned for "Geordi LaForge" in STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION, as well as voicing characters for TRANSFORMERS: RESCUE BOTS, THE SUPER HERO SQUAD SHOW, OK: KO, GARGOYLES, CAPTAIN PLANET, and BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES.

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Peripheral RICHARD BURTON acted in THE ROBE with--

Primary VICTOR MATURE oF SAMSON AND DELILAH.