When I heard that Kristi DeMeester’s first novel Beneath had Southern Gothic leanings and a damnation of religion, I knew I had to read it. In the book, reporter Cora Mayburn is handed a brow-raising assignment: coverage of a fundamentalist ...

Old Hollywood will never not have an allure to most of us — the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown’s dolled up matinee idols in clingy satin sheaths, mink stoles, and perfectly coiffed hair still captures our imagination after all these ...

Nadia Bulkin’s first collection of short stories, She Said Destroy, was recently released from Word Horde, and it’s intense. The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author specializes in socio-political horror stories, often based in Indonesia where she grew up. Paul Tremblay — ...

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, ...