Horror as Banishment
Andrew
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…
Repulsion at the End of the World (a Polanski Masterpiece Turns 50)
Look on the Internet Movie Database, and you’ll see a tagline for Roman Polanski’s 1965 film Repulsion that almost preempts interpretation: “A classic chiller of the ‘Psycho’ school!” Marketing-wise, the…
Take a Sure Thing: R.J. Sullivan’s Dark Wit Is Not a Whim
Darkness with a Chance of Whimsy showcases author R.J. Sullivan’s development over ten years with ten short stories, providing a brief introduction for each tale that explains its history. It…
Shadow Out of the Sky: Not Afraid to be Scary
Brick Marlin’s Shadow Out of the Sky—a horror novel with enough ingredients from science fiction, fairy tales, and other sources to feed a troop of hungry new readers as well…
Ladder Day Storytelling (Never Too Early To Scare Yourself Silly)
It’s the story of a man who wakes up stripped to his underwear inside a giant aquarium. He learns that some things should have bones, and some things shouldn’t, but…