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Often when we 80s kids talk about growing up in that golden age of cinema, we refer to slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, or the angsty dramedies of John Hughes, or comedies such ...

Joe likes his music, attending weekend gigs in his best shmatta of brogues, Sta-Prest trousers, and Brutus shirts. He avoids the National Front elements creeping into his beloved Skinhead world, preferring to get pissed or get laid, hopefully both. The ...

Leslie S. Klinger, the annotator of The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, is a very thorough fellow. His attention to detail is intensive and his penchant for in-depth research dazzles. In this second volume, the follow-up to 2014’s The ...

Graeme Davis is an editor who clearly likes women. More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror is dedicated to his wife: “who proves to me every day that women are amazing.” To put it simply, the ...

When I heard that Kristi DeMeester’s first novel Beneath had Southern Gothic leanings and a damnation of religion, I knew I had to read it. In the book, reporter Cora Mayburn is handed a brow-raising assignment: coverage of a fundamentalist ...

The Influence by genre master Ramsey Campbell falls into the sub-category of Horror in the Household. Weird Aunt Queenie reigns over her kin financially and psychologically. Her malevolent matriarchal superiority was established when her nieces Hermione and Alison were just ...

The Last Harvest (2017) by Kim Liggett, is published under the “Tor Teen” imprint of Tor Books.  The narrative, which includes detailed depictions of sacrificial violence and a bovine massacre, makes one want to shout “Holy Cow!”  Are today’s kids psychologically ...

Out now from Fresh Pulp Press, The Terminal is Amber Fallon’s first book — or rather, at 105 pages — her first novella. It’s about the unlikely protagonist Dirk Bradley, whose name, I must admit, reminds me of the name Dirk Diggler, ...

In these last few particularly trying months — which have included Brexit and Trump winning the US presidential election — there seems to have been a desperate scramble to make comparisons between current events and historical tragedies. In a time ...

Sheila Merritt’s Retro Reads reviews books from years past that continue to deserve attention and are still readily available to readers in some format. This time around, in conjunction with Diabolique’s collaborative project examining the American Gothic, here’s a look back at ...