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Have you ever been afraid of the movies? Not afraid AT the movies--any good horror film should give you chills--but scared that the movies themselves could somehow darken your world?…
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Have you ever been afraid of the movies? Not afraid AT the movies--any good horror film should give you chills--but scared that the movies themselves could somehow darken your world?…
Recent articles have lauded the movie The Witch for flying from the festival circuit to grace the mainstream’s megaplexes with its arthouse horror presence. I’m a snob about snobbery: while…
‘Tis the season to be afraid. No, I’m not confusing the Holiday Season—fuck it, I mean the Christmas Season—with Halloween. I mean the real season of horror, the one when…
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Richard Marsh's The Beetle. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite. Marie Corelli's Ziska. Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan. Ishiro Honda's Matango. William Hope Hodgson's "The Voice in…
You know something isn’t right. A nagging feeling, an itch, a funny smell, a sour stickiness on your tongue, a lurking in the corner of your eye, a high-pitched whine…