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Elisabeth Brooks in Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981) The Howling is one of my all-time favorite horror films. I discovered it as a child, and it was one of the rare horror movies that my dad enthusiastically introduced me to.It’s ...

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, ...

Horror fiction has often addressed the notion of “the lesser of two evils.”  With a recent book review, we’ve looked at Dracula combatting Nazis. In Apex Predator, by S.M. Douglas, werewolves are pitted against plutocracy. More than just Lycanthropes vs. ...

“I am taking you to the brothel, Messieurs,” declared the old puppet, “but the brothel of memories. There you will submit, and with the sharpest desire, to women you will not even see, to a deceptive obsession. I am taking ...

Night Film by Marisha Pessl is a contemporary novel that focuses on its narrator’s quest to unravel the truth about a filmmaker, Stanislas Cordova, and his recently suicided daughter, Ashley Cordorva. Marisha Pessl creates a truly masterful twenty-first century narrative that ...

Peter James is the author of a bestselling crime fiction series.  In the late 1980s and in the 1990s he wrote some noteworthy horror novels, including Possession, Sweet Heart, and Twilight. He returns to the supernatural in The House on Cold ...

Given its title, Dracula vs. Hitler would seem to be a mash-up not terribly worthy of a serious review.  Surprise, surprise! The novel, written in the epistolary style of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is smart and engrossing. Author Patrick Sheane Duncan ...

For my money, the late ‘90s and early ‘00s represents one of the most fascinating recent creative booms of genre cinema, especially where European filmmaking is concerned. French directors, in particular, began to blur the lines between horror, thriller, and ...