On Earth, everyone can hear you scream, and they'll hear you do just that when you experience the horror of realizing that monsters are very real things that live all around us, thanks to Dorkly.

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This bedding will run you $65-80 over on Incredible Things, but that seems a fair price to lie every night with one's true love.

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Don't breathe. Don't move. Don't even think. Survive. If you can.

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Time to clean out your chests, er, desks, guys.

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Shane Black has clarified reports that he will be rebooting the 1987 Predator, saying his addition to the franchise will instead be an entirely new story mining the creatures' "rich mythology." So...female Predators? That's what you're telling us, right, Black?

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Whether you know H.R. Giger's name or not, you've definitely been scared by him: the Swiss surrealist who passed away yesterday was best known for his Oscar-winning work on Alien, for which he designed the sets and titular creature.

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Especially the kinds with clips on their legs so they can actually hang on to a head. Happy snuggles!

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While the xenomorph (that is, the Alien) has become an enshrined part of horror cinema, the kind of cultural artifact that you can absorb easily whether or not you've actually ever seen the original source, like Godzilla, Frankenstein, or Ghostface from Scream. I can't speak from personal experience, but in 1979, when the R-rated Alien actually hit screens, I doubt that it was that easy. Instead, little kids had to learn to fear the alien from, apparently, really clashingly upbeat commercials where they futilely fight off a horrifying embodiment of our existential dread of unfathomableness of space and our own bodies. Fun for the whole family! On the other hand, we would totally go nuts for the Ripley action figure with Turbo Torch action that showed up later.

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You may not remember the "Bambi Burster" from Alien 3, but that's probably attributable to a few good reasons: the film is 20 years old, threequels are always kind of iffy, and, oh yeah, that thing is so terrifying you might have blocked it from your memory anyway. Watch as the film's crew makes sculptor Steve Norrington's quadrupedal xenomorph animate, and try not to let it creep you out too much. Think of it as refreshing: isn't it nice to see 3D models in an age of CGI? (via i09.)

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Aliens Vs. Predator may have been a pretty terrible movie, but the concept it embodies has a lot of merit. Especially on the chessboard. That was, perhaps, the thinking behind this amazing chess set from Joker-Laugh, which features the familiar "faces" of everyone's favorite acid-bleeding xenomorphs and mandibled hunters. My only question is if the transparent Predator pieces get some kind of bonus for being invisible -- it only seems fair! See more images of both sides, arrayed for battle, after the break.

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In the 12th century, someone somewhere in Scandinavia carved the Lewis Chessmen, a collection of nearly 100 chess pieces of a particularly unique and expressive style. It wasn't the first ornate chess set, but it's certainly a strange and unique set with its shield-biting berzerkers and worried looking royalty. Since the Lewis chess set, the Western world has continued to make stranger and stranger chess sets. Perhaps this speaks to the power of the game, and it's captivating metaphorical nature. More likely it speaks to the human desire to spend stupendous amounts of money. Regardless, chess set making has come to the point where it's no longer about the game but about whatever weird twist you can put on it. And trust us, they've come a long way from simple walrus ivory carvings. So whether your covet these gameboards, or laugh at those that do, please enjoy this humble collection of the least humble chess sets the Internet has to offer.

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Good news for those who like their alien spaceships properly oozing, dark, and pseudo-sexual: H.R. Giger is now confirmed as a contributor to Ridley Scott's new Alien prequel.  Giger is the artist who designed all of the alien looks in the original sci-fi horror flick, and so it is he who we can thank for those extraterrestrials known sometimes as xenomorphs, but more commonly called simply, significantly, aliens.

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Easy Sequels to Horror Flicks (Spinoff)

Michigan Town Regulates Fortune Telling (Freep)

5 Bad-Ass Pokémon (GameRant)

Weird Lawsuit of the Day (Bleeding Cool)

Star Wars + Warhammer = Win (Toycutter)

This Is A Laser-Sighted Pea Shooter (The Sun)

Lutetia: Beautiful Asteroid (BBC News)

(image via Reddit.)

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