If you’re looking for the best horror novels of all time, then you’ll be pleased to know that there are some great options out there. You’ll be able to pick the ones that are most representative of your own personal tastes as well. However, there’s one book in particular that is a perfect choice for anyone who wants … Read more
Classic Horror Stories: No more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone leaves Life endurable, I will bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Morphine that I’m a weakling or a degenerate. Hastily scrawled pages that you may guess, though never … Read more
Ice cold air seeped through the slate gray stones of the cell membrane, infusing the darkness with a biting chill. But it wasn’t the frostbite taking root in Matt Brenton’s toes that held his attention. Nor the frost coated layer of bile clinging to his ten day old beard. He’d grown familiar with the corporate of pain and … Read more
It was a day made for death. Brittle shards in the slanting October sunset stabbed the silent road. Brassy gold stained shaggy yards a muddy, coppery brown. The expiring light fingered naked chunks of rain-blackened elms and fruitless mulberries and peaches and skeletal jacarandas. It rested heavily over the drooping branches of the occasional valley oaks that had … Read more
Harry sipped his latest beer while yet one more news update flashed across the pub’s dusty television. A female reporter appeared onscreen, enveloped by an over-sized pink ski-jacket and covered in snow. “Good evening,” she said politely, a slight shiver in her voice. “I’m Jane Hamilton with Midland-UK News. As you can clearly see, the nineteen-inches of snow … Read more
You found the house because you knew of it from your dreams and you read ofit in the ancient books.It is a sacred place.The ritual was simple.You recited the words.You made the sacrifice.You called the thing back to the shape of life.You were only passing through then, in summer, but the house called to you.The boy called to … Read more
The horror film is arguably the foremost robust, pliable, and successful of genres within contemporary cinema. As a well-liked form, its pervasiveness has seen it succeed as a up to date series of blockbusters (The Mummy [1999–2008], and Hellboy [2004–2008] films), independent breakthroughs (The Blair Witch Project [1999], and therefore the insight [1999]), films for youngsters and young … Read more
Euro Horror Investigates a Sudden Improvement in American popular Civilization: the significant cult following obtained as the late 1990s by movies from the golden era of twentieth-century Continental European horror movie. Between the mid-1950s along with also the mid-1980s, these Euro in astonishing amounts and have been shown at the USA at rural drive-ins and in metropolitan grind … Read more
Don’t let anyone attempt to tell you that the horror boom is over. A dozen years back once I began as editor of The Year’s Best Horror Stories, I won’t to reserve space on one shelf for genre publications with room for stories of note published outside the horror field. For 1989 hardcover, paperback anthologies and booklets filled … Read more
A Companion to the Horror Film: Monsters are everywhere lately .They are on movie screens certainly, although oddly enough, not always in horror films. As Adam Charles Hart’s chapter in this volume demonstrates, today monsters are at the very heart of Hollywood blockbuster action films and CGI spectacles, in franchises like The Hobbit and Pirates of the Caribbean. … Read more
The Classic Horror Stories by HP Lovecraft Readers may want to cross the threshold unaided and treat this debut as an afterword with the help of Classic Horror Stories by HP Lovecraft. The fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, it’s safe to say, divides opinion. He has been called ill hysterical and neurotic’, the writing’ gruesome. And a sympathetic … Read more
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: These scary stories will take you on a weird and fearsome journey, where darkness or fog or mist or the sound, of an individual screaming or a dog howling turns ordinary places into nightmarish place-s, where nothing is what you expect. People are telling scary stories for as long as anyone … Read more
