Category: Art, Culture, Literature

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Tommy (1975), and the Culture of Celebrity.

by Jerome Reuter | Jan 17, 2022 | 0

Celebrity has long been a cultural fixation. As individuals who live in a consumer-based economy,...

“Good-bye to the sunrise”: Grieving Anne Rice

by Miranda Corcoran | Dec 17, 2021 | 0

“And then it was that I said good-bye to the sunrise and went out to become a vampire” — Interview...

Review of Seconds, by Jez Conolly & Emma Westwood (Auteur/ Liverpool University Press, 2021)

by Miranda Corcoran | Dec 3, 2021 | 0

John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is a maddening, surreal and deeply distressing film. Fusing elements...

The Haunting Season (Book Review)

by Sheila M. Merritt | Nov 15, 2021 | 0

What better way to indulge my Anglophilia than by immersing myself in the British tradition of...

The Last House on Needless Street (Book Review)

by Sheila M. Merritt | Nov 11, 2021 | 0

The device of the unreliable narrator is a genre staple. With The Last House on Needless Street, author Catriona Ward ups the ante.

J.A. Seazer’s Sounds of Tenjō Sajiki: Nuhikun – Directions to Servants

by Tom Clark | Nov 10, 2021 | 0

With a body of work spread out across various mediums as wide ranging as radio drama, boxing...

New Book: War Is Hell: The Making of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

by Andrew J. Rausch | Nov 7, 2021 | 1

If you like horror films and/or the Hellraiser films, War Is Hell: The Making of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth is a book you must add to your bookshelf.

Spooky Suburbia

by Sheila M. Merritt | Oct 31, 2021 | 0

Southern California. A place of dreamers and the demented. A locale that combines the balmy with...

Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Book Review)

by Sheila M. Merritt | Sep 27, 2021 | 0

It’s impossible for horror fiction to lay to rest the ghost of Shirley Jackson. In The Haunting of...

Book Review: Ramsey Campbell, Certainly

by Sheila M. Merritt | Sep 10, 2021 | 0

In the interest of full disclosure, I obtained my trade paper edition of Ramsey Campbell,...

No Wave: The Early Films of José Bénazéraf (1961-1966)

by Tom Clark | Aug 10, 2021 | 0

When José Bénazéraf passed away in December of 2012, author Pete Tombs wrote “What can you say...

Passport to Espionage: All the Old Knives

by Sheila M. Merritt | Jul 7, 2021 | 0

In All the Old Knives, author Olen Steinhauer navigates the twists and turns of his story by examining the relationship of two former lovers who worked for the CIA.