A lone rider traveling “(d)uring the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year.” This is how Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher begins. Since its first publication in 1839, Poe’s macabre masterpiece has been […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsI always say that the great thing about independent art of any kind is the lack of restraints imposed by studios, publishers, record companies, and the like. I have to say that The Story of Her Holding an Orange is one of the more unique […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsGav Chuckie Steel is one of those guys that just ooze horror. He eats, dreams, and breathes the gory stuff. This non-stop motor of his serves him spectacularly well in his directorial debut, a fantastic super low-budget flick titled The Shadow of Death. If you […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVFrom the darkness has curiosity ever reached out and struck you? Has it caused you to wonder about your favorite genre writers and what’s on their bookshelves? It’s reached out and struck me. Do they have some classic pulp detective novels? What about graphic novel […]
Authors Books & Comics“I had to do everything because I couldn’t find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.” Sometimes people ask me why I’m so crazy for monsters and so interested in the weird. I have […]
Featured ArticleLegs McNeil, the co-founder of the revolutionary manifesto known simply as Punk Magazine, once stated that when rock and roll is done right, it is truly the Devil’s music. If this is the case, then the Devil has a helluva good taste in tunes. After […]
Music & Events Music ReviewsWho can lay claim as the first nation of horror? Although history is littered with classical works and cultures that felt a thing for the macabre (according to old Howie Lovecraft, fear is the most fundamental human emotion known), two nations in particular stand out […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsThe best horror films are made by horror fans because we, as a genre community, are snobs. We like our deaths to be creative, our storylines to be thorough and our blood to be the right shade of red. We get it where other filmmakers […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVLet’s set a scene, shall we? It’s a coffee shop–one of those terribly pretentious ones with all the “vintage” advertisements and foreign language posters on the walls. The person next to you is intently scribbling away in a black notebook. What’s she/he writing? You probably […]
Featured ArticleKane Hodder jokes about his favorite chokes with RavMon while promoting Hatchet III at the Mad Monster horror convention (video below). The horror heavy weight talks about his new favorite kills and weighs in on who would win in a fight between disfigured, sociopathic swamp […]
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