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Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell

Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell has a concept so bizarre you wouldn’t think it could possibly work. What if Holmes, world’s greatest detective, faced off against Clive Barker’s Cenobites. It’...

Satanic Panic

Book Review: Satanic Panic: Pop Culture Paranoia in the 1980s

Satanic Panic is a newly released reference book from FAB Press on one of the most interesting crazes in American history. This is an amazing resource on the cultural satanic paranoia of the 1980s, co...

MEG - Oceanic Horror - Steve Alten - Nightstalkers

Exclusive Interview: Steve Alten Talks Meg And More!

Steve Alten is the author of the popular Meg series, about a massive prehistoric megalodon shark awakened in the modern era. There are five books in the series, with the fifth having just hit stands, ...

Horror literature

Why Horror Literature Is Suffering (And How To Try To Save It)

Print is dead. That’s what everyone says, at least. Hell, Egon Spengler said it way back in Ghostbusters in 1984. The paperback market has almost completely died out and everything has made the move t...

MEG - Oceanic Horror - Steve Alten - Nightstalkers

Why Oceanic Horror is a Subgenre Worth Diving Into

Everyone remembers the first time they saw Jaws, whether they watched it during its initial theatrical run or just scrolled by it on the SyFy Channel one day. It was a hugely impactful, influential pi...

The Modern Vampire: Six Stories That Influenced Dracula

Bram Stoker is often credited with creating the vampire genre with his seminal novel, Dracula. But this is far from true. Stories about vampires go back as far as we have stories, at least to ancient ...

Laymon’s Terms: Examining the Untapped Cinematic Potential of Richard Laymon

While slashers dominated the screen in the 1980’s, splatterpunk dominated the page. The movement was about going as far as possible, going to extremes to unnerve and shock the reader. Naturally, this ...

Literary Vampire Sequels Worth Adapting to Film

Vampires will always be popular in some medium or another. Sure, their mega-success comes and goes, but they never disappear. Stories about them go back as far as there are stories. But if there’s one...

Why Splatterpunk Should Make a Comeback

Splatterpunk was a term coined in the 1980’s by horror journalist and novelist David J. Schow. It is essentially defined as literary horror with graphically described scenes of gore, horror fiction th...