Bob Pastorella

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Injured Eyeballs 35: To Boldly Go Where No Bloch Has Gone Before

  • June 16, 2017

  • 15 mins to read

Robert Bloch

The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …

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Midnight Mix-Tape: June 2017- Our Dark Companions

  • June 13, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

Mixtapes Scattered

  Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. From …

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Book Review: The Changeling by Victor LaValle

  • June 12, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

The Changeling by Victor LaValle - cover

“Filled with compelling wonder and deeply-disturbing horror, The Changeling is an extraordinary novel.”   In his follow up to his 2016 novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle writes a beautiful, emotional, and terrifying fairy tale in The Changeling. Apollo Kagwe is a “book man”, searching estate sales and dark basement corners for rare …

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Book Review: Palladium at Night by Christopher Slatsky

  • June 9, 2017

  • 5 mins to read

Palladium at Night by Christopher Slatsky - cover

“Slatsky has produced a genuinely disturbing story complete with great characterisation, a creepy setting and unsettling ties to real-life mysteries.” Christopher Slatsky is a weird horror fiction author living in L.A. whose debut collection, Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales (Dynatox Ministries, 2015), was universally praised by fellow horror authors such as Adam Nevill, Michael Wehunt, …

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