Category: Features

Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Gemma Files

January 20, 2017
6 mins to read

When it comes to writers that are pushing the envelope of what horror and weird fiction can accomplish, Gemma Files is one name that people mention on a regular basis. Writer, screenwriter, film critic, Files has her fingers in nearly every aspect of the writing life. Two of her scripts were produced for episodes of …

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Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda

January 19, 2017
2 mins to read

Look Out For … The Lovecraft Code by Peter Levenda “Think Hellraiser colliding with the Illuminati.” Drawing on decades of experience, author and historian Peter Levenda turns to the novel as the best and perhaps only way to tell a story that has to be told – that hidden within the tales of America’s most …

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The 2017 State of the Horror Address

January 18, 2017
6 mins to read

Horror lovers thrive on fear. There’s something about the tension, the building suspense, the big reveal of the monster in the final scenes. We crave it, even if we’re reading with all the lights on, or watching the movie from behind our fingers covering our eyes. The stories we read fill our minds with vivid …

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In Memoriam: William Peter Blatty, 1928-2017

January 16, 2017
4 mins to read

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, died Thursday evening, January 12th, 2017. He was 89 years old. Though he wasn’t very prolific, his story of a young girl possessed by a demon made a huge impact on readers all over the world. Blatty’s follow up to The Exorcist twelve years later, Legion was later …