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| Great ghost stories seem to have vanished in a sea of zombies, vampires and other monster creature features. Barrymore Tebbs returns to the Gothic tradition of the 1800s to give us a spooky tale of old England! A major strength here is atmosphere. Te...more | |
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| In the slew of anthologies released in October only a few stand out this year. Only a few were daring enough to step outside of the body parts, gore, torture, and violence. Enter At Your Own Risk: Fires and Phantoms is a return to the classic ghost...more | |
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| B.E. Scully’s debut novel, Verland: The Transformation, swept everything you thought you knew and assumed about the “vampire book” entirely away. It’s Gothic, philosophical look at immortality, death, and the darkness inside each of us was an amazin...more | |
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I just love a good scare and they seem rather hard to find these days. Flipping through the horror in any bookstore, I can find pages of blood, body parts, and other gore, but it's just not scary. Ok, so you ripped another arm off. Didn't the last...
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Positives: Not a zombie in site! This anthology made a point to seek out different angles on horror. The classics are great, but there is a lot more out there and you will find it here. Oracle bones that bleed, sea monsters of old, piecing togethe...
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| October is the season for horror and this Halloween is no exception. I’ve seen a lot of anthologies scheduled for release, so we are in for a real scare season! Dangers Untold, edited by Jennifer Brozek, was the first on my reading list this year. I...more | |
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| Brett Talley’s first novel That Which Should not Be debut novel was basically a prequel to Lovecraft’s masterpiece short story “The Call of Cthulhu.” It relied heavily on the plot, suspense, and action of its inspiration. Lovecraft’s story has becom...more | |
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| Horror monsters seem to go through trends. When I was little, it was the vampire. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire found a new audience, Poppy Z. Brite gave us Lost Souls, and Francis Ford Coppola (with a major casting in Gary Oldman) turned t...more | |
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
“Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies.”
― B.E. Scully
your science, your religions and your
philosophies.”
― B.E. Scully
“This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with the simple pleasures of family, church, or profession. Rather, I write to those beings like myself whose existence is compounded by a lurid intermingling of the dark and the
light; who can judge rationally and think with reason, yet who feel too keenly and churn with too great a passion; who have an incessant longing for happiness and yet are
shadowed by a deep and persistent melancholy—those who grasp gratification where they may, but find no lasting comfort for the soul.”
― B.E. Scully
light; who can judge rationally and think with reason, yet who feel too keenly and churn with too great a passion; who have an incessant longing for happiness and yet are
shadowed by a deep and persistent melancholy—those who grasp gratification where they may, but find no lasting comfort for the soul.”
― B.E. Scully
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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