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From 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 […]
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In the near-future (2016), roommates Margot (Jessi Gotta) and Daniel (Nat Cassidy) hole-up inside their Brooklyn apartment, awaiting the next big hurricane to bear down on the Big Apple—the new normal following Hurricane Sandy. As they briefly leave their sanctuary to navigate the perils of […]
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I tried to build a golem. I was in fifth grade and I had read way too much Dungeons & Dragons and heard the Judah Lowe story.[1] My sister and I were bored and we had some modeling clay. The confluence of all these factors […]
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At the time, there were those who thought that horror couldn’t exist after the concentration camps. Compared to the carnage of the Second World War, Count Dracula and his “creatures of the night” felt like downright cartoonish caricatures of what real fear looks like. Films […]
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The latest volume of Image Comics’ horror-noir hybrid—Fatale Book Three: West of Hell by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips—doesn’t quite achieve the success of the previous two collected Fatale volumes focusing on the mysterious Josephine’s emotional turmoil, and not the men around her. Where the […]
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Director Jeremy Berg’s psychological horror-thriller Sader Ridge (The October People) is a refreshingly creepy film. Where other movies might go for cheap scares and body horror, Sader Ridge is a quieter movie that relies on the strength of its performances and the implications of the unspoken to […]
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The Crow: Skinning the Wolves marked the end of James O’Barr’s long absence from the franchise he created and he’s back again with a new Crow tale entitled Curare. The high standard he set with Skinning the Wolves is easily met in this new tale […]
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Joyland by Stephen King is available through Titan Books’ hard-boiled pulp crime imprint, Hard Case Crime. King’s latest tale is executed in the mold of classics from a bygone era and as such it’s only available via paperback, for now at least. So for you […]
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The Conjuring hits on all the haunts…. James Wan, your seat is ready. Following up the widely applauded INSIDIOUS should have proved to be much more difficult for the man who brought us gore by the gallons with the SAW series and buckets of heebie-jeebies […]
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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 […]
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