Last year, Nerdcore gifted us with sensual scenes from cyberpunk and space opera with its science fiction calendar, and the year before it was scantily clad superheroes and villains. This year, their pinups pay tribute to the horror genre, from ghosts and zombies to Alfred Hitchcock and Sam Raimi. Higher res images of the first six images are available at Destructoid and of the last three images at ShockTillYouDrop.

Update: We've replaced two of the images with uncensored versions from our sister site Fleshbot. Check out Fleshbot for more uncensored images from the calendar.

The calendars (which will not have Nerdcore censoring glasses over the sexy parts) are currently available for pre-order for $25.00.

[Nerdcore 2010 Calendar]

Just yesterday, BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin posted a great show from a local filk convention, where old-school filkers told her the story behind the word "filk" and explained the more traditional side of filking. It's strange to think bands like Goblin Cock have their roots in songs about cats and UNIX, but it's obvious they do. Similarly, heavy metal and hard rock owe a lot to folk and country music.

Now if you want to see some seriously awesome new-school filk, you have to check out this video from Judgment Day. The guys in the band use filky instruments like violins to Completely Rock Out in a way that pleases me all the way down to my bleeding entrails. Call it string metal, or call it zombie filking. Whatever you do, don't let it bite you.

The new year is barely three weeks old, so if you love mutant powers and nakedness, then this calendar should be right up your alley. (Sadly there is no beefcake version.) Like the first Nerdcore calendar, this one is also full of geeky dates, like the opening days for Iron Man and The Dark Knight. You'll also get nerdy trivia dates like Sarah Connor's assassination, the morning Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 departed, and the day Marty was sent back to the future.

So, if you're looking to decorate your dorm room, office cubicle, or basement rumpus room, you might want to pick one of these up. You may have a hard time convincing your co-workers or significant other that it's actually research for Heroes, but if you're able to pull it off, then we salute you. It'll certainly get a lot more attention than your old Far Side calendar.

Scifi music began with filking, and the less said about that the better. But did you know that mega-popular band Blue Oyster Cult sang songs written by British scifi author Michael Moorcock? (One of those songs, "Black Blade," was a minor hit in the UK.) That's true scifi music for ya. And then there is the totally underground Massachusetts band Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives, who sing about time cubes and Tatooine with feeling. Plus, one member of Honest Bob is an editor at New Scientist, which is serious cred.

And let us not forget that Judas Priest's song "Electric Eye" from way back in the 1980s is a brilliant dystopian vision of a world controlled by surveillance. OK, maybe not brilliant. But prescient! And very scifi.