“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 ...

Such an odd choice by Destiny for the creator of an eternal monster, that Stoker fellow. Such a Renfield, such a Sorcerer’s Apprentice. From his diligent research, his industry, his graphic and sex-charged vision grew an icon which overwhelmed the ...

Winston Churchill once described Russia as, “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” This same analogy could be used to describe western attitudes about Japan for many years. Until admiral Matthew Perry opened its gates to foreigners in ...

In recent years feminism has been responsible for significant developments within film theory. Perhaps most importantly has been the shift from dominant models of psychoanalysis, as an ageing film theory that as such relies largely on patriarchal paradigms, to other ...

Director Lucio Fulci once claimed that “violence is Italian art.” While this sentiment was asserted repeatedly throughout the Italian cult cinema of the ‘60s and ‘70s through genre filmmakers like Bava, Fulci, Argento, and Martino — elevating cinematic violence to a ...

Author Tiziano Sclavi is a man of incredible imagination. From The Planet Putipoo to Mostri, he knows his way around a page. The supernatural threads itself throughout his works, most notably in his two lasting pieces of fiction: the novel Dellamorte ...

Edgar Allen Poe stands as one of the most prominent names regarding classic American horror literature and rightfully so, considering his works The Telltale Heart (1843) and The Raven (1845). Likewise, Washington Irving also stands as a notable name in ...

Big feuds in horror arrived on the big screen most famously in 2003’s Freddy Versus Jason. Now thirteen years later, the concept is coming back with the much anticipated film, Sadako Vs Kayako which was released in June 2016 in ...

     I first encountered the audio CD Closed on Account of Rabies: Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe in the autumn of 1999. My friend Evan dropped by my dorm room and told me that he had something that I ...

Two hundred years ago this week, history was made with the birth of that filthiest creation of all, Frankenstein: one of the most influential Gothic and science fiction novels of all time; a book that inspired countless generations of writers, ...