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Continue reading →: “It is as if the entire film is set in a graveyard in the middle of the night.”
That quote is from Troy Howarth who was, at the time, writing about Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby … Kill! for his intimidating coffee table tome The Haunted World of Mario Bava. The quote, alas, probably can’t be as freely applied to my story “Marcella,” which is inspired more by the…
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Continue reading →: All on Tape
Astute readers will already be aware that I have been a loyal devotee of Analog Sunday for many years now. For those who don’t know what that is, Analog Sunday is a monthly event hosted (currently) at the Rewind dive bar behind and beneath the Screenland Armour. It is the…
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Continue reading →: “But by God, Eliot, it was a mask from life!”
Lovecraft is famously – and perhaps apocryphally – difficult to adapt into other mediums, which hasn’t stopped literally hundreds of people from trying over the years. As his stories go, I have always been of the opinion that “Pickman’s Model” made the transition with more ease than many, and my…
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Continue reading →: “Weirdos turn me on.”
Against my better judgement, I am writing about Incubus. Despite its reputation as just a bunch of people attempting to ride the coattails of Stephen King’s phenomenal success, the paperback horror boom of the 1980s actually produced a wide range of different writers and stories, most of them now buried…
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Continue reading →: Speaker for the Dead
Like most of the rest of the horror community, it would seem, I learned last night that Brian Lumley passed away earlier this month at the age of 86. Lumley’s is a name that never quite attained the same sheen as certain other writers who were his predecessors or contemporaries,…
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Continue reading →: Tales for Those Who Can’t Sleep
I watch a lot of movies [brief pause for murmurs of shock to subside] and I read a lot, but I don’t actually read a lot of novels. Last year, I made a conscious effort to read more of them, and largely succeeded, reading some 16 or so novels in…
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Continue reading →: Year Coming Down
Writing can be a difficult, lonely, and discouraging path, and I’ve rarely felt any of that more keenly than I did this year. The fragmentation of social media and a long stretch of not going to conventions has left me feeling more cut off from my writerly peers than at…
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Continue reading →: Scary Ghost Stories
It is de rigeur among horror hounds to make a big production out of how much you dislike Christmas. And if you do partake in the season’s festivities – as, after all, most of us do – then you must do so as ironically as possible. Hence things like the…
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Continue reading →: Drinking with SkeletonsIn 1892, three cabarets/theme restaurants opened in fin-de-siecle Paris, each one based around a different depiction of death and the afterlife. These morbid, macabre, and often titillating escapes had antecedents as well as contemporary parallels and modern successors, but there was nothing else quite like them before or since. All…
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Continue reading →: To Keep It Unholy
The first of November can be a particularly sad time for people like us. Halloween is “spooky Christmas,” after all, and for horror nerds and, most especially, those of us for whom Halloween, in particular, holds a special place, the long year that stretches out ahead of us, bereft of…
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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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