Bob Pastorella

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  1. The Misunderstood Perfection of Shelley Duvall in Kubrick’s The Shining — 8 comments
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The Misunderstood Perfection of Shelley Duvall in Kubrick’s The Shining

  • February 27, 2017

  • 6 mins to read

The Shining -The Torrence Family - All together

Let’s be clear from the start: Stephen King’s book The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining are two completely different animals. All further understanding and appreciation of either incarnation spawns from that fact. Yes, the source material for the film is the book, but it’s just that: source material that Kubrick used to mold …

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Book Review: The Time Eater by Aaron J. French

  • February 24, 2017

  • 3 mins to read

The Time Eater Aaron J French - cover

“Aaron J. French gives us a psychological war between man and the darkness behind the curtain of reality” Aaron J. French has used his fiction to deal with the occult, the weird, and the metaphysical. His first novel, The Time Eater, takes these concepts to the extreme and gives the readers a tale that expands …

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Book Review: Chupacabra Vengeance by David Bowles

  • February 23, 2017

  • 13 mins to read

Chupacabra Vengeance - cover

“Bowles has delivered a work of genius, producing a collection of entertaining speculative fiction that is also literary gold.” Award-winning Mexican-American author David Bowles is a man of many talents. As well as a teacher and a lifelong academic with a particular passion for learning about languages and cultures, he is also a published poet …

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Book Review: Black Static, Issue 56

  • February 20, 2017

  • 6 mins to read

Black-Static-56 - cover

“Overall, a great start to the year for the UK’s premier magazine of dark, literary fiction, which makes clear its intent to continue to be a showcase for some of the best writing the expanding and fluid horror genre has to offer.” And so we come to the first Black Static issue of 2017, and …

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