Category: Features

The Cutting Room: The Passage

When terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being bitten by bats in South America, the government conducts secret tests with human subjects to see if a virus can cure illness. Instead, it unleashes a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires out of the test subjects, which include death row inmates. Why we’re looking forward to this: …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Revisited

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Sometimes, dead is better, especially when you read Stephen King’s classic novel, Pet Sematary. The book King himself claims is his scariest is really one helluva story, certainly one of his best, and still relevant today. This marks the third time I’ve read this book, and damn if it just keeps getting better every time. …

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AHS: Roanoke Chapter 9: Mopping Up

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It has been a weird week, to put it mildly. If ever there were a need for good art, or at least good entertainment, now is the time! Not that AHS has ever promised us art–in the entertainment department, though, they can be top of the line, if they’re in the mood. Season 6 has …

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Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories and Literary Wonderlands

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Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories “The tales of mummies, sarcophaguses and ancient curses here run the gamut from chilling horror to darkly comic.” ‘As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see that this horror was …

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