If there’s any location on earth that deserves to be a horror movie setting, it’s the Catacombs of Paris. Miles […]
Book Review: “The Grand Hotel”
Scott Kenemore, king of zombie literature, has ventured into new territory with his latest novel, The Grand Hotel—and boy, does […]
Movie Review: “Oculus”
Who would have thought a horror movie about a mirror would turn out to be a unique narrative with surprising […]
Book Review: “A Winter Haunting”
About a year after I read Dan Simmons’ Summer of Night, I’ve finally gotten around to picking up the sequel, […]
Finding Beauty in the Macabre: NBC’s Hannibal
Now that the second season of NBC’s Hannibal has concluded, and the show has been renewed for at least one […]
Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers
Most folks in the literary world are aware of the prestigious magazine, Glimmer Train, and its lauded contests like the […]
True Horror in True Detective
Everyone’s been talking about it: Mathew McConaughey. Woody Harrelson. The King in Yellow. Carcosa. And many have been asking, even […]
Fictional Cartography: the Art of Mapping Imaginary Settings
Recently I taught a creative writing lesson to a group of high school students about creating and mapping fictional places. […]
Feminist Horror in “You’re Next”
February is Women in Horror month, so it was a good thing I decided to watch You’re Next by director […]
Book Review: “This Book Is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It)”
In 2009, the editor of popular humor/news/oddities website Cracked.com, David Wong, published a hodgepodge of zany supernatural misadventures in the […]
