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While not a hands-down horror novel, Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, has elements of horror within its pages. It’s the fifth book from S. Craig Zahler, novelist, screenwriter, cinematographer, musician, and the director of last year’s Bone ...

Previously on this site, I reviewed author Bracken MacLeod’s first collection of short stories, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods. He’s proven himself to be prolific: his novel Stranded (optioned for a Warner Brothers TV show) was released just last ...

Our Lady of the Inferno (2017) is the first novel from Rue Morgue scribe and Cinedump.com assistant editor Preston Fassel. It takes place in the summer of 1983 in New York City and, more specifically, within the grime, crime and theatres ...

Bracken MacLeod is quickly becoming a recognizable name in horror literature. His novel Stranded has been nominated for a Stoker Award for “Superior Achievement in a Novel,” and Warner Brothers Television have optioned the book. I reviewed it for Fangoria, ...

Out now from Fresh Pulp Press, The Terminal is Amber Fallon’s first book — or rather, at 105 pages — her first novella. It’s about the unlikely protagonist Dirk Bradley, whose name, I must admit, reminds me of the name Dirk Diggler, ...

Because you’re reading this, you probably already are familiar Takashi Miike, the notoriously prolific Japanese director who put himself on the worldwide horror map with Audition in 1999 – recently voted number one horror film of the 2000s by the ...

Spider Baby is a weird, weird film. An anomaly in the late ‘60s, that was directed and written by Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown, Pit Stop, Coffy) and starred Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, ...

Kiddie Cannibalism, A Supernatural Love Triangle, A Crooked Kevin Bacon And The Post-Apocalyptic ‘90s Lead An Impressive Program This fall, Saskatchewan genre fans can look forward to attending the province’s only genre film festival from September 30th through October 3rd at ...

With the recent news of NBC cancelling the critically acclaimed show only a few episodes into its third season, Hannibal is very much the talk of the moment. Adding to that, the show went on to win Best Network Show ...

“Fairy Tales are not escapist stories; rather, they are brutal engagements with the real world.” – Jack Zipes, Grimm scholar and translator.   Lucky monster kids grew up reading collected stories from the Brothers Grimm—their notoriously weird and sometimes horrific ...