The 1980s was a decade that gave us horror fans plenty of memorable slasher movies. Slashers that were meant to scare, shock, and gross out the audience. At the end of the 1980s the horror genre was slowly degenerating into the horror-comedy realm when every […]
Featured ArticleIt’s been thirty-six years in between visits with Danny Torrance and the ghosts of The Overlook Hotel. With last week’s release of the highly anticipated DOCTOR SLEEP, horror maestro Stephen King shows that he still shines as a horror author. Unraveling a tale both terrifying […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsNaima Haviland’s Night at the Demontorium is a collection of short stories that harken back to the style of The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside. While all the stories are unquestionably horror tales, they aspire to be more than just that with very […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsLet’s talk for a minute about Edger Allan Poe. This will be a largely superficial, shallow, glib and possibly even pointless conversation, but by God, I feel compelled to have it. Poe was a guy (yeah I just called Edgar Allan Poe a “guy,” and […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsI’m a man who loves his alternate history. Rome doesn’t fall, the South wins the Civil War, the Mongols ravage Europe, the Vikings survive in the New World—count me in. So imagine, savage readers, that the zombie craze began in the 1920s instead of the […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVThe fourth season of the hit supernatural series Lost Girl will premiere in Canada this fall and air in the U.S. on SyFy in early 2014. This season promises guest spots by several genre stalwarts, past and present. To find out more, read the press release […]
NewsAt last, TV’s longest running murder spree has ended. After eight seasons, Dexter, the Showtime cable network’s first significant original drama is no more. And it seems like just yesterday we were all nervously contemplating the outcome of the Ice Truck Killer case. Beginning in […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsWhen you think of the average horror filmmaker certain things come to mind—the nerdy eccentricity, the black T-shirt fashion motif. So it follows that certain other things don’t come to mind—ex-lawyer, yoga practitioner, Investigation Discovery television producer, for example. However, Vancouver, British Columbia’s Karen Lam […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVThe zombie film, whether you love it or despise it, is an indispensable part of horror’s dark tapestry. Commingling the gothic dark with the gory red, the zombie film helped to transition terror away from the more cerebral towards the more visceral. Some commentators blame […]
Featured ArticleAmazingly, ever since the publication of A Study in Scarlet in 1887, the “Great Detective,” Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant/Boswell-like biographer Dr. John H. Watson have enthralled readers with their tales of ratiocination (to lift a phrase from Edgar Allan Poe – Sir Arthur Conan […]
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