Bob Pastorella

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Book Review: Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn

July 5, 2016
6 mins to read

“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …

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Book Review: The Nameless Dark by T.E. Grau

June 29, 2016
6 mins to read

“Grau takes you down dark, horrific pathways, keeping you on the edge of your seat and reading until the final, petrifying sentence.” Weird fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance of late, possibly motivated by such authors as Simon Strantzas, Laird Barron, and Stephen Graham Jones, but perpetuated by newer faces on the scene such …

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Let’s Play a Game: The Evolution of Fear in Video Games

June 28, 2016
7 mins to read

With Resident Evil 7 preparing to lurch its way into our living rooms early 2017, This Is Horror looks at how horror and genre themes have established themselves in video games. In this first part, we look back thirty years to the earliest generation of gaming and find that as long as there have been …

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Book Review: The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman

June 28, 2016
6 mins to read

“The Suicide Motor Club is Buehlman’s best work to date and one of the best vampire novels to come along since Salem’s Lot.” Vampires have long been a fascination among readers and authors alike, ranging from Stoker’s classic Dracula to Stephen King’s exemplary Salem’s Lot and stopping at all points in between with Anne Rice’s …