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A Quartet Of Grisly Gialli, Volume 2In today’s Shocktober column, I would like to focus on another quartet of wonderful giallo films from the classic period of the early 1970s....
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A Haunting on the Hill: Do not read it after dark!A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand First, a warning: If you are alone while you are reading this book, do not read it after it...
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Five Horrors From The Big ‘70sFor many horror fans, the finest decade for that particular cinematic genre was the 1970s, the years when the giallo film was in its heyday,...
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The Renegat: Exciting but too longThe Renegat by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Renegat (2019) is a long, slow-moving, complicated novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch ’s...
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Some Unusual "Frankenstein” FareI suppose that there is a certain aptness in the fact that I happen to be writing this little mini-introduction on August 30 th . This, of...
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WWWednesday: October 12, 2023File 770 regularly prints a column by Melanie Stormm, about a writer who is the victim of misdirected email by a wannabe writer. I haven’t...
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Six Schlocky Horror ExcursionsWebster’s Dictionary defines the word “schlock” as something “of low quality or value,” so perhaps that is not quite the correct word to use...
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Holly: King’s scariest villainsHolly by Stephen King If you participate in Bluesky or X (formerly Twitter), you may follow the account called The Midnight Society ....
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A Larry Cohen Double Feature: Q and The StuffBorn in July 1936 in good ol’ NYC, Larry Cohen would eventually become a triple threat as a screenwriter, producer and director for both...
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A Quartet Of Grisly GialliJump-started by Mario Bava’s 1962 film The Evil Eye , also known as The Girl Who Knew Too Much , the cinematic genre known as the giallo...
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Hysteria: An American amnesiac In LondonHysteria directed by Freddie Francis As I believe I have mentioned here before, during the 1960s, Hammer Film Productions in England did...
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The Maniac: Carrying a (blow)torch for his lady loveThe Maniac directed by Michael Carreras Up until recently, I had been aware of only two films with the title Maniac : the 1934 camp...
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WWWednesday: October 4, 2023Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their pioneering and life-saving work on mRNA vaccines. A...
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The World of the Vampires: Murcielago-ChicaThe World of the Vampires directed by Alfonso Corona Blake 1961 was still another interesting year for the Mexican horror film, as that...
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The Haunting of Julia: The least of Mia’s big three horrors, but still funThe Haunting of Julia directed by Richard Loncraine You’ve got to feel a little sorry for the characters that Los Angeles-born actress...
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The Snorkel: Mandy, as candy, is dandyThe Snorkel directed by Guy Green A little-known picture sporting an amusing title, The Snorkel yet reveals itself to be an excellent...
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Blue Book: The story of a famous alien abductionBlue Book (Volume One) by James Tynion IV (script), Michael Avon Oeming (art), Aditya Bidikar (letters) Blue Book is the true-life...
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MCU: The Reign of Marvel StudiosMCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios , by Joanna...
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WWWednesday: September 27, 2023Closeup of young soay domestic sheep livestock ovis aries in field For no reason at all I got curious about Soay sheep , a small breed the...
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I Am Your Brother: Half frustrating, half dazzlingI Am Your Brother by G.S. Marlowe In the 1971 British horror film The Beast in the Cellar , two aged sisters, well played by Beryl...
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Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories about alternate possibilitiesNormal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson In a number of her novels, Kate Atkinson explores the idea of alternate possibilities,...
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An Inheritance of Magic: A fun opening to a new seriesAn Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka An Inheritance of Magic is a solid fantasy with an entirely engaging Everyman of a...
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Light Chaser: Can two humans put the universe right?Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton & Gareth L. Powell 2021’s Light Chaser novella is a collaboration between Gareth Powell...
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WWWednesday: September 20, 2023We all agree that the single biggest threat facing our beautiful planet is that of space aliens. Ever alert to security risks, our government...
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He Arrived at Dusk: Roman holidayHe Arrived at Dusk by R.C. Ashby Not for the first time, a novel resurrected by the fine folks at Valancourt Books has turned out to...
