Neil Gaiman took the reader on a magical mystery tour when American Gods was first published in 2001. The prodigious novel displayed creatively dexterous literary prestidigitation and was greeted with accolades. A slew of genre Best Novel awards followed in ...

Leslie S. Klinger, the annotator of The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, is a very thorough fellow. His attention to detail is intensive and his penchant for in-depth research dazzles. In this second volume, the follow-up to 2014’s The ...

There are few things as comfortably rewarding as settling into a collection of ghost stories. Esteemed editors-annotators Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger, in their anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense, amplify the rewards through their notations and ...

Graeme Davis is an editor who clearly likes women. More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror is dedicated to his wife: “who proves to me every day that women are amazing.” To put it simply, the ...

I was introduced to Greek mythology as the result of a Frankenstein Complex. As a kid, I would swap the heads and bodies of my paper dolls. These attempts to create the perfect cardboard woman resulted in beauty pageants, in ...

Something’s not right about the Canadian village of Saint-Ferdinand. It is the site of a series of killings that has been a part of the fabric of the town for almost two decades. While the locals aren’t complacent, they do ...

Universal Pictures had such success with its horror movies that the logical assumption was the more monsters, the merrier. Starting in 1943, with the release of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Universal embarked on a series of creature-crossovers, in which ...

In a bizarre confluence of recent acquisitions, my last two book reviews for Diabolique were novels that featured people from real life interacting with fictional characters. Given that things often seem to come in threes, it wasn’t too surprising to ...

Meta meets the metaphysical in The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge. This brilliant and dense novel is an intellectual mind game. Reality is ephemeral in a narrative that mixes facts and fantasy. While ostensibly focusing on theorizing about H.P. ...

In 1932, Universal Pictures released The Mummy. The studio was coming off a financial high from 1931, when Frankenstein and Dracula were substantial hits. Capitalizing on a heightened interest in ancient Egyptian antiquities, that was triggered by the 1922 discovery ...