The Horror of Humanity: After Pride by george DANIEL lea
For those of us who made Pride -and for whom Pride is made-, there is no overnight on/off switch; we do not emerge from our rainbow-hued daze and revert to straight standards of respectability: we are...
View ArticleSUBMISSION CALL: UNDER HER EYE, A BLACK SPOT BOOKS WOMEN-IN-HORROR POETRY...
Black Spot Books will publish its second Women in Horror Poetry Collection in November 2023 in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This collection is...
View ArticleTHE LAST MAN STANDING IN THE THING: CARPENTER’S OTHER FINAL GIRL FLICK BY...
The Last Man Standing in The Thing: Carpenter’s Other Final Girl Flickby Rebecca Rowland John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) may be completely absent of women, but it successfully produces a final...
View ArticleExploring The Labyrinth: Urban Gothic
Keene’s execution (pun, I guess, intended) of that trope is pretty much flawless. The Tribe/Family/Creatures that inhabit the house of Urban Gothic are absolutely fucking terrifying and grotesque;...
View ArticleFIVE THINGS I LEARNED WHILE EDITING ORPHANS OF BLISS AND THE ADDICTION HORROR...
I learned about the power of creative fiction to tell us a lie that speaks a larger truth, and in the end, storytelling itself has created a new high, one of understanding, insight, and compassion....
View ArticleHORRORS OF THE 41ST MILLENNIUM: THE TYRANIDS.
the Tyranids not only reflect Lovecraft's more profound, cosmic horror, but also those that are intimate and human: they evoke phobic response to creatures that might cause us harm. Snakes, spiders,...
View ArticleTHE HORROR OF HUMANITY: ALL MY LITTLE OBSESSIONS BY HENRY CORRIGAN
But the bit which frightens me and still keeps me up at night, is the realization that what really helped wasn’t love or perseverance or even understanding. What really helped me was luck, pure and...
View Articlethe filming of Matt Shaw’s new horror, GPK
“Mike’s arse gushes blood” - the filming of Matt Shaw’s new horror, GPK:I write horror for a living. Over 300 publications, in fact. My imagination is a dark place. Just when I think I can’t have any...
View ArticleVIPCO VAULTS OF TERRORFEST 2023 is open for submissions!
After the successful inaugural VIPCO VAULTS OF TERRORFEST world renowned video label VIPCO are once again open for festival submissions for the next online film festival VIPCO VAULTS OF TERRORFEST...
View ArticleHORROR FEATURE: STUPIDITY IN HORROR BY KYLE MUNTZ
If Chad’s lucky, the scene will cut with a menacing snap, and we’ll be back with his two friends at the party, wondering where Chad went. If he’s less lucky, we might actually see him get swallowed,...
View ArticleMATT WESOLOWSKI TELLS TONY AND STEVE SIX STORIES
Tony Jones and Steve Stred rake over old bones and discussthe stunning ‘Six Stories’ series with author Matt Wesolowski It takes a very special series of books to unite two top review sites for a...
View ArticleImmoral Origins: A Suspense Thriller (The Desire Card Book 1) by Lee Matthew...
A PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER THAT ASKS HOW FAR WE’RE WILLING TO SHED OUR MORALS IN ORDER TO HELP THE ONES WE LOVE. It’s 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent. As are mobsters, gritty streets,...
View ArticleHORROR OF MY LIFE: RUS WORNOM
THE FIRST HORROR BOOK I REMEMBER READINGAll the Marilyn Ross Dark Shadows novels (well, the ones with Barnabas Collins) and then Dracula and The Exorcist, which I remember reading simultaneously.THE...
View ArticleIT’S THE QUIET ONES YOU HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR BY STUART D. MONROE
I just can’t shake how many kids there are out there like me, suffering through the combination of undiagnosed/untreated mental illness and bullying that are just waiting to explode. I feel that. Some...
View ArticleCOVER REVEAL: THE SECRET GARDEN OF YANAGI INN BY AMBER A. LOGAN
We welcome Ginger Nutter, Amber Logan to the site to mark the cover reveal of her new novel, The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn, along with an exclusive excerpt from her novel. You can find the gorgeous...
View ArticleA Rainbow At Night: Reappraising the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope in terms of...
'If Horror is the province of the non-conformist, then lately it also feels like the last bastion of queer catharsis in genre literature.' A Rainbow At Night: Reappraising the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope...
View Article“Anne Rice, Visions of Home” (A The Book That Made Me guest essay)by E.F....
I grew up in a family of readers, always passing books around and talking about characters we read about like they were part of our extended relations. In a way, they were. So it was nothing...
View ArticleHorrors of The 41st Millennium: The Tyranids.
Back in its earliest days, the now-iconic grim-dark, science-fiction dystopia of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40 000 universe was a veritable grab-bag of idea and influences. Whatever the...
View ArticleTHE HORROR OF MY LIFE: NEIL CHASE
THE FIRST HORROR BOOK I REMEMBER READING The first horror book I remember reading was The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. I think it was as part of a school assignment, and though it wasn’t...
View ArticleHORROR AND RESILIENCE: FINDING STRENGTH THROUGH FEAR BY T.L. WOOD
As I have declared many times before, “writing for mental health is not the same as writing about mental health.” My own Black Dog is still with me—all the fictional horror in the world could never...
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