Spanish filmmaker Amando de Ossorio is best remembered today for his cult classic Blind Dead movies (Tombs of the Blind Dead from 1971, Return of the Blind Dead from 1973, The Ghost Galleon from 1974, and Night of the Seagulls from 1975). Of those, I’ve only covered the first so far, but recently, a friend … More Movies: Demon Witch Child (1975)
The 2023 English/German horror film Baghead (not to be confused with the 2008 horror comedy of the same name directed by the Duplass Brothers) dropped on Shudder in April of 2024, and there seemed to be a bit of buzz around it, so I was curious to give it a look. I will say right … More Movies: Baghead (2023)
In 1968, Michael Reeves’s historical folk horror film Witchfinder General (which Tom and I reviewed here) hit theaters in its native Britain. Starring the always incredible Vincent Price and renamed The Conqueror Worm for American audiences, the film took the real-life figure of English witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and spun a lurid tale of torture and … More Movies: Mark of the Devil (1970)
Gerald Brom, who is professionally known just by his last name, is an insanely talented artist and writer who I was peripherally aware of just by virtue of seeing his beautiful book covers here and there while browsing around in bookstores. He started as a commercial illustrator and later went on to do artwork for … More Books: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
T. Kingfisher is the horror- and fantasy-specific pen name of prolific children’s book author and illustrator Ursula Vernon. I had read one of her horror novels before (The Hollow Places, from 2020) and enjoyed it quite a bit, so when a friend recommended one of her newest books to me, I was happy to give … More Books: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
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
At the end of November of 2022, an author named Alan Golbourn contacted me and offered to send me a couple of his novels for review, and of course I accepted, because free books are one of my very favorite things. I regret that it’s taken me this long to get around to reading one … More Books: The 666 Murders by Alan Golbourn
Not too long ago, when I did a post and video about Disney’s 1980s “Dark Phase” and talked particularly about the 1980 film The Watcher in the Woods, I happened to mention that the movie in this specific cycle and era that actually got the most discussion for being straight-up nightmare fuel for 80s kids … More More Dark Disney: Revisiting Return To Oz (1985)
New Hampshire-based author John Durgin is a very new face on the horror scene, having co-founded Livid Comics only two years ago, in 2020, and publishing a Christmas horror comic series called Jol around the same time. According to his bio, he was a huge fan of Stephen King and had long dreamed of becoming … More Books: The Cursed Among Us by John Durgin
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
The Scare Salon 