Author Seann Barbour should be no stranger to visitors of this site, as I’ve previously reviewed two of his earlier novellas (2023’s The Last Day and 2024’s The Maw). Seann recently contacted me again to offer a review copy of his latest work, It Came from the Floodwaters, which will be published on Friday, March … More Books: It Came from the Floodwaters by Seann Barbour
Lovecraft adaptations tend to be all over the place, quality-wise, with the gold standard arguably being Stuart Gordon’s 1985 Re-Animator and its follow-up, 1986’s From Beyond. So when the writer of both those films, Dennis Paoli, contributed a screenplay for the 2023 film Suitable Flesh—a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1937 short story, “The Thing … More Movies: Suitable Flesh (2023)
When we last discussed the Boris Karloff-hosted series Thriller, we had finished up all 37 episodes of season one, so now it’s time to plunge right into the second (and final) season. On we go! Episode 1: “What Beckoning Ghost?” The first episode of season two is admittedly something of a letdown from the excellent … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 2, Episodes 1-6
A while ago, I read (and loved, and glowingly reviewed) a 2016 murder mystery called Magpie Murders by prolific British author Anthony Horowitz. I mentioned in that review that there was actually a “sequel” of sorts to that novel, which came out in 2020 and which I was really interested in reading. Jump ahead to … More Books: Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Scare Salon 