Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

  • July 12, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

The Hatching cover

“If you’re looking for a story that will truly scare the hell out of you and skitter around the inside of your skull long after you’ve read the last word, you’ve found it in The Hatching.” As avid scholars of the dark and disturbing, we frequently call certain horror fiction and movies terrifying or horrifying. …

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The Elvis Room Comes Alive in Creepy Celluloid Adaptation

  • July 6, 2016

  • 5 mins to read

The Elvis Room - Elevator ride

Hitting the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 25th, 2016, director Andrew Schwarz brings his vision of The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones to the screen. This Is Horror published the chapbook of The Elvis Room in March of 2014 to rave reviews, and now fans will get a chance to see the short …

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Book Review: The Soul Standard by Caleb J. Ross, Nik Korpon, Richard Thomas, and Axel Taiari

  • July 6, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

The Soul Standard cover

“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …

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The Dark Water of Koji Suzuki

  • July 5, 2016

  • 9 mins to read

Rain Water Drops

Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …

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