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The Girl Next Door (2007) is Terrifying and intense!

The Girl Next Door (2007), directed by Gregory Wilson, is based on the novel of the same name, and a series of terrifying events that became a young girl’s nightmare. Written by Jack Ketchum, Th...

Meg tied in the basement in The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum

Four Essential Novels by Jack Ketchum

If you are not familiar with the name Jack Ketchum, you definitely should be. A pseudonym for author Dallas Mayr, Jack Ketchum has been putting his dark mark on horror fiction for over thirty years, w...

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Seven Extreme Horror Novels That Could Never be Adapted to Film

When horror makes an impact on the page, that impact is almost always translated to the screen. And if it doesn’t make it that far, there’s at least an attempt. Film adaptations of horror novels are s...

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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...

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...

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Real Scary Stories- Movies Based On True Events (part one)

One trick that’s often used in horror movies is claiming that they’re based on real events that have happened. Here we list some of the real scary stories that have been turned into movies. Read more ...