For many in my age group, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was much more than a series of books. They were essential reading that helped cultivate a generation obsessed with horror. I was first introduced to them at ...

“What you meet in the dark is yourself. And that is truly a thing to be feared.” — The Witch Finder’s Sister Historian Malcolm Gaskill notes in his 2005 book Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy that the infamous Witchfinder General ...

“Fire does not burn them. No weapon of iron can wound them, and the snakes harmlessly lick up the sweat from their heated cheeks. Fierce bulls fall to the ground, victims to numberless, tearing female hands, and sturdy trees are ...

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 ...

Marcus King is not a terrorist. Anyone who feels they should begin with that assurance probably shouldn’t be taken at their word, but that’s where writer, Alex De Campi, delivers her first blow in Bankshot #1. Right before professing he’s ...

“Could horror create a Black monster without indicting the entire race as monstrous, and perhaps image a Black character as brave or as a savior?” This question, asked in the third chapter of Robin R. Means Coleman’s book Horror Noire, ...

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 ...

The idea of being watched has always been horrifying but what if you were being watched… by no one? That sentence might sound like it’s trying too hard, but writer, Cullen Bunn, and artist, Jack T. Cole, have created a ...

Thirty years ago, the infamous Dillon (Carl Weathers) deceived an elite rescue team, led by his old friend Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), into infiltrating the inhospitable jungles of South America under the guise of saving survivors of a massive helicopter crash. ...

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 ...