If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ll know that I love author Grady Hendrix. I’ve read and reviewed several of his works (such as Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group), but as I was browsing my local bookstore … More Books: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
A hit at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, director Leigh Janiak’s impressive debut Honeymoon is, I think, best enjoyed going into it cold, as I did, because I really had no idea what was going on until near the end, which made the film a reliably harrowing experience (I‘m gonna spoil it here, … More Movies: Honeymoon (2014)
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
I’d seen this film three or four times previously and absolutely adore it, so it was with some surprise that I realized I had never got around to doing a proper review of it. Allow me to correct that tragic oversight forthwith. Starry Eyes premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in 2014. Written … More Movies: Starry Eyes (2014)
1981 was another banner year for horror, and as such, I had my work cut out for me again, having to winnow the list down to five entries from the initial fifteen I picked out. If you do the math, that means there are ten (!!!) honorable mentions, which might be the most so far. … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1981
Some of y’all might remember that a while back, I reviewed a 2022 novel titled The 666 Murders by a British author named Alan Golbourn, which I enjoyed quite a bit, with some caveats. So recently, when Golbourn contacted me again and offered me a review copy of his latest novel The Cult From Beyond, … More Books: The Cult From Beyond by Alan Golbourn
Since in my last movie review, I finally got around to seeing a classic horror film from the 1950s that I had previously and shamefully been sleeping on (Night of the Demon from 1957), I decided to continue along the same lines for this installment, taking in another film from the same decade that gets … More Movies: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
I feel as though choosing books at random like I do ends up netting me a higher-than-average percentage of novels by British authors, and I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe British writers are just better at coming up with titles and concepts that intrigue me, or at least are more capable of targeting … More Books: Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter
Jacques Tourneur is a name that should be well-known to serious horror fans; he’s often hailed in that community for directing a handful of the classic RKO horror pictures of the 1940s: Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man. I had seen those films previously, but for whatever reason, I had … More Movies: Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon) (1957)
English writer A.J. Wills worked as a journalist for more than a decade before becoming a full-time novelist in 2021; his was a name I’d heard before, leading me to believe I’d actually read something of his, but I guess I was mistaken because none of the titles of his novels rang a bell. But … More Books: The Warning by A.J. Wills
The Scare Salon 