Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie

  • May 16, 2024

  • 4 mins to read

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie - cover

“With his latest, DiLouie presents a meta-horror tale with an obsessed director using a cursed camera aimed to capture an aspiring Final Girl’s last performance.” Max Maurey is one of the world’s most famous horror directors. Everyone loves him. Actors love him, audiences adore him, and Hollywood needs him. But this is the 80s, and …

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Look Out For … Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi

  • May 9, 2024

  • 4 mins to read

Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi - cover

“With his latest, Malfi takes the ‘secret from the past’ trope, fills it with damaged and desperate characters, and cranks the horror volume all the way up.” Quickly rising up the ranks in a law firm in New York, Andrew Larimer has finally settled into his new life. With a very pregnant wife, Andrew’s thoughts …

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Look Out For … Cinderwich by Cherie Priest

  • May 2, 2024

  • 3 mins to read

Cinderwich by Cherie Priest - cover

“With her latest, Priest presents readers with a small-town mystery wrapped in a road-trip to a city shrouded in a horrifying past.” “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Originally spotted by trespassing children decades ago, no one knows who put Ellen’s corpse in the treetop to this day. Hoping this was their Ellen, Kate …

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Authorcon 3/Scares That Care 2024 Roundup with Kev Harrison and Michael Clark

  • May 1, 2024

  • 11 mins to read

Kev Harrison and Michael Clark at Authorcon 3 2024

Two weeks ago, I went to Authorcon 3, part of the Scares That Care series of horror conventions in Williamsburg, VA. It was my first big convention of this kind, and I shared a vendor table with fellow author Michael Clark, who had visited Scares That Care previously, way back in 2021, though this was …

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