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Jewel Box: Delightful startling points and beautifully honed sentencesJewel Box by E. Lily Yu The pleasure for me in reading E. Lily Yu’s collection of short stories, Jewel Box , was sourced in two...
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Rai: The rise and fall of a futuristic New JapanRai: Deluxe Edition, Volume 1 (issues 1-12) by Matt Kindt (writer), Clayton Crain (art), and Dave Lanphear (letters) Matt Kindt is one...
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Thoughtful Thursday: What’s the best book you read last month? (GIVEAWAY!)It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report! What’s the best book you read in October 2023 and why did you love it?...
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The Running Grave: An addictive return to the detective seriesThe Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) An insidious cult, a spiritual leader who converses with the dead and a ghost...
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WWWednesday; November 1, 2023The World Fantasy Award were announced Sunday, October 29. Best Novel went to Saint Death’s Daughter, by C.S.E. Cooney. Priya Sharma took...
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Starling House: A dark fantasy set in a vividly depicted realist worldStarling House by Alix E. Harrow Starling House is the central mystery of Eden, Kentucky. Eden is a company town, and that company is...
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Fingers of Fear: In Ormes’ wayFingers of Fear by J.U. Nicolson This will hardly be the first time that I have mentioned editor/author Karl Edward Wagner, and his...
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Two Frightening Films Starring William ShatnerBorn in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931, William Shatner, over the course of the last nine decades, has managed to carve out for himself a reputation...
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A Witchy Double FeatureIs there any figure more commonly associated with the Halloween season than the good ol’ witch? I think not. Or perhaps I should more properly...
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No One Will Come Back For Us: A sampling of one of the best writers aroundNo One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed Premee Mohamed is one of the best writers around, and her first short story collection,...
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Psychic Killer: Show me the fireball!Psychic Killer directed by Ray Danton We’ve all heard the expression “if looks could kill,” but how about thoughts?...
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Our favorite spooky houses (GIVEAWAY!)Houses are a staple of the spooky season. Whether the house is infested with ghosts and no more to blame than one with a termite problem,...
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A Quartet Of Grisly Gialli, Volume 4For the fourth and final time this Shocktober season, I would like to shine a light on the giallo films that were so very popular in Europe...
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WWednesday: October 25, 2023This week’s column will be very short! The Hugo winners were announced Saturday, October 21, at the Chengdu WorldCon. Ursula Vernon,...
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Five Horror Anthologies From AmicusWhen most people think of the British horror film, they probably – almost invariably – think of Hammer Studios, and for good reason; Hammer was...
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The Birds: Book vs. filmThe Birds by Frank Baker In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock, following the cinematic marvels Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and...
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Four Horrors From Merry Ol’ EnglandIn today’s Shocktober column, I would like to shine a light on four terrific horror films from merry ol’ England. Three of these, as might be...
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A Quartet of Grisly Gialli, Volume 3In today’s Shocktober column, I would like to take another look, for the third time this Halloween season, at some of the giallo films that...
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Mooncakes: A magical YA love storyMooncakes : Suzanne Walker (writer), Wendy Xu (illustrator), and Joamette Gil (letterer) Well, Mooncakes is likely to ruffle...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human EvolutionEve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon In Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million...
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A Quintet of Italian HorrorsAlthough the Italian horror industry in the late ‘60s and throughout the 1970s seemed to be fairly well focused on the giallo film, and that...
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Three Frankenstein Outings From The House Of HammerIn 1957, Hammer Studios in England came out with the first of their full-color horror creations, The Curse of Frankenstein , starring Peter...
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WWWednesday: October 18, 2023I re-watched Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story Crimson Peak , and was smitten by the amazing wardrobe, just as I was the first time. I...
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A Devilish Double FeatureThe subject of Devil worship is one that the cinema has returned to repeatedly over the decades, and for good reason: Honestly, is there...
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A Lycanthropic Double FeatureWhen most people think of the cinematic werewolf, chances are that they have in mind the big three, and who can blame them? In 1935,...
