How to Figure Out THE PROBLEM
Andrew
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…
Nicole Cushing’s MR. SUICIDE: Extremes of Horror, Thought, and Talent
Mr. Suicide is the best new horror novel I have read in years, and Nicole Cushing accomplishes the coup through immersion in the perspective of a psychopathic child on a…
Abandon All Doubt, Ye Who Seekest Chills: Zimmer’s Hellscapes, Vol. 2 Delivers Wild Images, Guilty Delights
With the second volume of Hellscapes stories, Stephen Zimmer solidifies his imagining of Hell for the twenty-first century and becomes its invisible tour guide. He shows readers, in details with…
Nine Cat-Themed Horror Films Worth a Purr
Every now and then I succumb to cuteness. Samara, however, has requested that I base a character on her, one that slaughters all the “insects,” whatever that means. 9. Cat…
Horror as Banishment
An annoying question that intellectuals ignorant about the horror genre often think they’re terribly clever for asking: what is horror, anyway? An annoying corollary: why would anyone read or write…