The 2020 novel Gilchrist by Christian Galacar is another horror novel I stumbled across while browsing the Kindle Unlimited free selections; the title and cover art intrigued me, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Galacar, according to his bio, holds a degree in finance and worked in that field for several years before … More Books: Gilchrist by Christian Galacar
I only turned five years old in September of 1977, so I wasn’t really aware until later of all of the horror awesomeness that was unleashed in that watershed year. It was the year of amazingly cheesy, nature-run-amok movies (Day of the Animals, Empire of the Ants, Kingdom of the Spiders, Orca: The Killer Whale, … More My Favorite Horror Movies from Every Year Since I Was Born: 1977
While I’m a big fan of Clive Barker’s fiction and have read most of his stuff, I find that most film adaptations of his work fall far short of of the fantastical grotesqueries presented in his prose. 1992’s Candyman and 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train were rare exceptions to that, as was 1987’s excellent Hellraiser, … More Movies: Hellraiser (2022)
Richard Thomas’s short story collection Spontaneous Human Combustion was published in February of 2022, but I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy from Turner Publishing several months prior to its release. Richard Thomas was another author I wasn’t all that familiar with, although since he’s had about 150 stories published in various horror … More Books: Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas
Since I mentioned on a recent video that I’d been trying to watch some of the newer films that have recently been added on Shudder, I was happy to get a recommendation along those lines from a listener, who told me I should watch the 2022 film Speak No Evil, which premiered earlier this year … More Movies: Speak No Evil (2022)
I thank the universe pretty much every day that I was born at the time I was. My formative years corresponded almost exactly with the explosion of punk and post-punk, the birth of MTV, the home video boom, and the expansion of cable television into more and more homes. Yes, despite my dewy youthfulness, I … More Movies: Time After Time (1979)
Released in France in 1907, The Red Spectre was directed by Segundo de Chomón and is one of the few surviving examples of early-twentieth-century “trick” films. It’s only ten minutes long and doesn’t have a “plot” per se, but I gotta admit, for 1907, this thing looks fucking amazing. How is it in color, Jenny? You may … More Silent Movie Watchalong: The Red Spectre (1907)
Jeremy Ray is an author I hadn’t encountered before; according to his bio, he’s found success as a playwright and with a few of his screenplays, but his first love is short prose. He’s not exclusively a horror writer, as he likes to hop genres, but his 2021 novella Petrified Women is undoubtedly a horror … More Books: Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray
I chose Brandon Massey’s Dark Corner completely at random out of my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, and as usual, I didn’t read the description of the book; I just dived right in. The book is actually older than I thought it was when I first started reading it, having come out in 2005. Now, I will … More Books: Dark Corner by Brandon Massey
Not long after my recent post where I revisited both seasons of the iconic 2006 & 2007 Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror, a friend of mine reminded me of something that I had, for some reason, completely forgotten about: that there was technically a third season of Masters of Horror, after a fashion. Following … More Revisiting Fear Itself (2008 TV Series)
The Scare Salon 