Art, Culture, Literature

I never met Harlan Ellison, but I did fall victim to his wrath. Many times, the first of which occurred when he screamed at me through the television set. From 1993-1996, the Sci-Fi Channel’s Sci-Fi Buzz concluded its program with a ...

Although I first became interested in Liquid Sky when I was a teen in the mid-1980s (thanks Night Flight!), I only got the chance to watch it more recently. Waiting three decades to see Slava Tsukerman’s new wave cult masterpiece ...

Horror is synonymous with controversy no matter which medium it’s operating in. Some people consider the violent and disturbing content harmful and problematic, as history has shown time and time again with incidents like the ‘video nasty’ craze and the ...

This Tuesday, April 10th at Film Noir Cinema, Miskatonic University will continue its inspiring series of lectures surrounding cult film and literature with a talk from Rémy Bennett, a New York-based filmmaker, writer, and curator—and occasional Diabolique contributor. Read her ...

I’ve never enjoyed fake haunted houses, the haunted attraction. You know the kind. The ones where you stand for hours to be guided through a corridor of hallways as ghastly puppets, actors, and props come flying at your face. As ...

TL Wiswell is the brains behind the London Lovecraft Festival. In 2016 her gender-switched interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness was a sell-out success at 2016’s London Horror Festival. In February 2018 Wiswell put together a programme of shows ...

Without Richard Matheson’s seminal novel I Am Legend, Night of the Living Dead might not exist. Without that film, who’s to say what the horror landscape would look like today? Romero admitted that I Am Legend was a key influence behind ...

The New Yorker received the most protest letters in its entire history when it published “The Lottery”, a controversial 1948 short story by Shirley Jackson which culminates with a woman being stoned to death. Needless to say, it was shocking ...

“Sade is surrealist in sadism.” —André Breton The legacy of the Marquis de Sade can be felt strongly in the 20th century, largely because of the efforts of the French Surrealists in the ‘20s and ‘30s: writers and artists like ...

Tom Worsley of Bête Noire Productions discusses bringing horror to a live audience with Father of Lies, a real-life horror drama. For seven spine-tingling years the London Horror Festival has presented some of the very best comedy, cabaret and drama on ...