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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Jack Webb is as important to television drama as anyone who has ever lived. Working mostly in the period we might refer to as “classic television,” or the Golden Age, he should be held in as high regard as Rod ...

Sweeney Todd, the tale of a throat-slitting London barber who turned his murdered clients into human meat pies for public consumption, is now known as a famous musical with several film adaptations, but it is really the surviving relic of ...

Johanna Spyri’s novel Heidi became a literary sensation almost immediately after publication in 1881, spreading the story of an intelligent and adorable Swiss orphan girl across the world. Popular with both children and adults, it was part of a trend ...

What do Big Jimmy the Aberdonian Bloodsucker, Big Rab the crisp-scoffing 80s action superstar, Davey Wilson, international joiner extraordinaire, spam fritters, diarrhoetic fishermen, Dundonian Darth Vader, stauner (erection) stealing aliens, Lorne sausage-obsessed American gang members, and drunken pish-gibbering demons have ...

Known today as a master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe was a remarkable writer whose gruesome poems and stories have fascinated and haunted readers for over 160 years. Annabel Lee, The Oval Portrait, Berenice, The Fall of the House ...

As a fifth-grader, I thought I was pretty hot stuff for having read Stephen King’s Night Shift and Salem’s Lot. So when a commercial came on the television for a King book-of-the-month club, I was taken aback when my father ...