Category: Features

Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix

  • June 22, 2017

  • 3 mins to read

Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix “Little has been written about those pulp paperbacks that were an essential horror fix for those of us of a certain age in the days long before Netflix, until now.” SEE the amazing vintage book …

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Searchlight: Mark Korven

  • June 20, 2017

  • 4 mins to read

markkorven

We often think of horror and the weird in visual terms. Often, it is what we see, whether it’s the imagery in our heads, or the images on a screen, that truly creep us out. Yet, horror is an emotion, and emotions are receptive to all our senses. For film, sometimes the creepy comes from …

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Injured Eyeballs 35: To Boldly Go Where No Bloch Has Gone Before

  • June 16, 2017

  • 15 mins to read

Robert Bloch

The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …

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Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne

  • June 15, 2017

  • 2 mins to read

Look Out For … The Upstairs Room by Kate Murray-Browne “Some of the most disturbing examples of horror are those closest to home. The Upstairs Room is another such exercise in terror.” Eleanor, Richard and their two young daughters recently stretched themselves to the limit to buy their dream home, a four-bedroom Victorian townhouse in …

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