We’ve reached the year of 1978, the year I turned six years old, and once again, I have a whole smorgasbord of horror goodies to choose from, necessitating another long list of honorable mentions. So before we get into the entrées, I offer a few hors d’oeuvres in the form of the very decent sequel … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1978
When you look back on it, 1960 was a hell of a year for horror. Three movies in particular that were released that year made a massive impact on the genre going forward, and I’d argue that their influence is still felt everywhere today. Two of these films were, of course, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal Psycho, … More Movies: Eyes Without a Face (1960)
The pond looked dark, even now, even in broad daylight. Muriel remembered it had always looked dark. She had always been afraid of it. She waded through layers of dead leaves in her worn black flats, keeping her eyes fixed on the still water. The grass around the pond had grown long and wild; Muriel … More Fiction: William’s Pond
In my recent discussion of the V/H/S series of films, I admitted that I wasn’t the biggest fan of found footage, but did concede that there were several examples of the subgenre that I quite enjoyed, including the one we’re discussing today, which I saw years ago but somehow never got around to reviewing. The … More Movies: [•REC] (2007)
I’ve talked about horror-adjacent animated films on here before (Rock & Rule, When the Wind Blows, the Japanese Jack & the Beanstalk), but it was my recent post on Chuck Jones’s Rudyard Kipling adaptations that got my mind going back to childhood, and back to Saturday mornings and after-school sessions watching blocks of those classic … More Ten of the Best Spooky Looney Tunes Shorts
Upon opening her eyes, Lorna would always see the same thing: The floors, the walls, the ceiling, all sparkling with frost in the darkness like the inside of a candy sugar house, still and white and glinting in the light of the silver moon. Icicles dangling like delicate blown glass, reflecting her image in miniature, … More Fiction: Winter House
This week’s read was another result of what I’ve taken to calling Kindle Unlimited Roulette, where I simply scroll through the recommended horror titles and choose a book at random that has a cool cover or an intriguing title. Patrick Reuman’s A Place So Wicked was published in early spring of 2021, and although going … More Books: A Place So Wicked by Patrick Reuman
I have to admit that as far as horror subgenres go, demonic possession stories aren’t usually my favorite thing, but for some reason, while scrolling through my Kindle recommendations, Nick Roberts’s 2022 novel The Exorcist’s House kind of popped out at me, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Roberts is a West Virginia-based … More Books: The Exorcist’s House by Nick Roberts
It’s time once again to dive back into the Boris Karloff-hosted Thriller series, though I regret that I’m going to have to truncate this installment a bit. Although I’d previously been doing these posts as six-episode chunks, once I got to episode 19, I discovered that the Roku Channel, where I’d been watching the series, … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 1, Episodes 19 & 20
In my recent review of 2022’s Dark Glasses, I talked a little bit about my love of the early work of Dario Argento and the decline in the quality of his movies that began around the 1990s and continues, pretty much unabated, to this day. It’s a shame, of course, but it happens to most … More Movies: Mother of Tears (2007)
The Scare Salon 