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Continue reading →: Mary Shelley Didn’t Invent the GothicYesterday marked the 207th anniversary of the original publication of Mary Shelley’s immortal classic Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, which makes today a great time to both celebrate its legacy and clear up an apparently persistent misconception about the novel’s role in the development of the gothic as a genre.…
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Continue reading →: Making a ListThere are still a few days left of 2024 but, for all intents and purposes, the year is at an end. It has been a tumultuous one, both in the world and for me, personally, and 2025 doesn’t show signs of being the restful respite that we could all probably…
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Continue reading →: “Does damnation mean anything to you?” – La Main du Diable (1943)A thing that has happened to me more than a few times in my life is that I have seen a single still from a movie that has convinced me to add that movie to my watchlist, even when it has often taken years for me to finally track down…
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Continue reading →: The Most Merciful Thing in the WorldThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each…
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Continue reading →: What We Can Do
When a tree fell in my neighbor’s yard, I went over to help her clean it up. I hadn’t lived in this house very long at the time, and had never met that neighbor before. There was no motive in what I was doing, except that she needed help, and…
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Continue reading →: 31 of My Favorite Horror MoviesHappy Halloween! Since I kicked off October and the press for the release of Glowing in the Dark with a list of my 13 Favorite Horror Films, I thought it would be fun to end the month and commemorate the holiday with a list of 31 of my favorite horror…
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Continue reading →: “… and next week is Halloween.”Halloween is just one week away. I’ve spent much of this spooky season promoting the release of Glowing in the Dark, my newest book, which collects 10+ years of my best nonfiction writing on horror films. But I am also still a fiction writer, my latest story appearing in the…
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Continue reading →: “My kind of horror is not horror anymore.”“My kind of horror is not horror anymore. No one’s afraid of a painted monster.”– Boris Karloff in Targets (1968) I have spent my life trying to avoid becoming the kind of person who laments that horror (or much of anything else) was better back in the “good old days.”…
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Continue reading →: The Cat That Launched a Thousand BooksOne week from tonight, my newest book will officially be out in the world, and we’ll be celebrating at one of my favorite local haunts, the Stray Cat Film Center. There’ll be copies of Glowing in the Dark (and maybe some of my other books, too) available for sale, other…
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Continue reading →: “Quick, become a mushroom… join me in the soil!”When Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I co-edited Fungi all the way back in 2012, we put together a list of fungal fiction in various media, from William Hope Hodgson’s germinal 1907 story “The Voice in the Night” through one of my favorite films, 1963’s Matango, and far beyond. One thing that…
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Rondo Award-nominated author Orrin Grey writes disjointed and irresponsible things about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters.
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