Elias Witherow’s The Black Farm, published by Thought Catalog in 2017, was recommended to me by a friend, and seemed to have had a bit of buzz surrounding it when it came out, judging by reviews and other people on GoodReads and Reddit recommending it, so I thought I’d give it a shot. As is … More Books: The Black Farm by Elias Witherow
I know I’ve tended toward talking about older media on this site so far, but obviously, I like to keep the format broad enough to cover something new when I think it’s worth discussing. And I can’t think of much of anything more worthy of being discussed than a brand new horror anthology series that’s … More Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
Irish author A.M. Shine has published several short stories in various anthologies, but The Watchers, which came out in October of 2021, is his debut novel, and it’s a creepy, atmospheric, monster-in-the-woods tale based around a variation on Irish folklore. Though the prose tends toward the more florid end (which I actually don’t have a … More Books: The Watchers by A.M. Shine
I remember back in 2006 when the zombie comedy Fido first came out, I was really interested to see it. It looked like a hilarious concept, it starred the delightful Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as one of the lumbering undead, and I was still feeling residual goodwill toward the zombie comedy genre, as the classic … More Movies: Fido (2006)
In my recent mega-post discussing the V/H/S movie franchise, I mentioned that found footage horror wasn’t usually my go-to subgenre, though of course I listed many examples of it that I did actually really enjoy. Interestingly, right around the same time as I was planning the V/H/S video, a friend of mine in New York … More Books: Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Various Authors
When I announced that I would be reviewing giallo movies all throughout the month of July over on my Flickers of Fear video series, a listener recommended a film I had never heard of called Discopath. Since I couldn’t resist checking out a movie with a title like that, I went over to Tubi and … More Movies: Discopath (2013)
I will admit right up front that I’m usually not the world’s biggest fan of found footage movies. There have, of course, been several exceptions to that general opinion—Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project, Creep and Creep 2, [REC], The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Troll Hunter, As Above So Below, One Cut of the Dead—but honestly, if … More Breaking Down All the V/H/S Movies
So I’d been noticing a lot of interest and buzz surrounding the 2022 film Barbarian, which premiered at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, but I wasn’t entirely sure what the nature of the buzz was, and I hoped I’d be able to keep it that way until I actually got around to seeing the thing, … More Movies: Barbarian (2022)
Ever since I started getting back into reading horror fiction over the past couple of years, I kept noticing the name Darcy Coates popping up all over the place. I don’t know a great deal about her, other than the fact that she’s Australian and seems to write a shit-ton of books in the gothic … More Books: The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates
As I mentioned in my last book review about Literally Dead, I’m a sucker for a good Halloween horror anthology, whether it’s in book or film form. The one I’m talking about today, This Is Halloween by James A. Moore, is a bit different, in that it’s ten (mostly) Halloween-themed tales by a single author, … More Books: This Is Halloween by James A. Moore
The Scare Salon 