Bob Pastorella

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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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Book Review: Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn

  • July 5, 2016

  • 6 mins to read

Stolen Away cover

“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

The Nameless Dark cover

“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

Wolfman cover

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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