Mariana Enriquez’s novel, her first published in English, uses otherworldly elements to consider Argentina’s violent history. Read more
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Tag: Horror
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Jones expertly blends snappy graveyard humor with nail-biting suspense, and he gives his characters distinctive personalities that distinguish them from the underdeveloped body fodder common to most slasher scenarios. This characteristically clever gore-fest proves Jennifer to be a horror heroine worthy of many more adventures. Read more
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Winnie the Pooh and Nightmares Too!
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Christopher Robin and other denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood will be back on the big screen this month. Just don’t expect delightful animation, whimsical songs or heartwarming themes of young innocence and imagination. The new movie is spectacularly unsuitable for children: It’s a gore-splattered, live-action sequel out of a nightmare, featuring a terrifying pair of psychopaths who commit gruesome murders. The villains? Pooh and Piglet themselves. Read more
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Read the Short Stories Behind Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
If you, like me, spent the weekend squirming while watching Guillermo del Toro’s new anthology horror series, Cabinet of Curiosities, on Netflix, you might also have noticed that all the episodes but one start with a hat tip toward the author of the short story that inspired it. Read more
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10 Best-Selling Horror Novels That Will Scare You to the Bone
Some novels are straight-up horror while others are more subtle in their fright. One thing is for sure, all will create an atmosphere that is right at home during the spookiest time of year. Read more
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These Books Prove We’re Living In a Golden Age of Horror
18 new and recent novels perfect for spooky season. Read more
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A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft
At the NecronomiCon revelers danced to murder ballads and celebrated all things weird. They even found time to reckon with the writer’s racism. Read more
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Hollywood finally comes calling for horror writer Paul Tremblay
“Knock at the Cabin,” a new film by director M. Night Shyamalan, is the first film adaptation of one of Paul Tremblay’s horror novels. It is set to be released in February. Read more
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Trans author ‘burns JK Rowling alive’ in horror novel based on killing ‘radical feminists’
The novel is described on Amazon as “a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror”. Read more
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Black Sunset: New Essential Horror Reads from the American West
Stories about the American West have always been rife with scares and horrors sure to delight and repulse even the most hardened of horror fans, from pulpy matinee fare like Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula to literary classics like Blood Meridian, but by taking what works and leaving what doesn’t, writers today are riding into the sunset with some of the most breathtaking and terrifying fiction in recent memory. Read more
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