Tag Archives: Horror Fiction

While not a hands-down horror novel, Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, has elements of horror within its pages. It’s the fifth book from S. Craig Zahler, novelist, screenwriter, cinematographer, musician, and the director of last year’s Bone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sheila Merritt’s Retro Reads reviews books from years past that still merit attention. Peripherally tying in with Diabolique’s collaborative Italian Film Project, she now looks at Don’t Look Now, which is set in Italy. Don’t Look Now (1973) is a film ...

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 ...

In the introduction to In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, editor-annotator Leslie S. Klinger observes that “Poe’s best stories traverse the ranges of existentialism—pondering the inexorable nature of time and death and the indifference of God—and of the depths ...

Diabolique’s Sheila M. Merritt had the opportunity to interview author-editor Paul F. Olson about a subject close to his heart: Better Weird, a tribute anthology in memory of David B. Silva, who died in March 2013. Silva was a writer ...

Craving some Lovecraft?  Want to swim with (not exactly) fish?  Like girls with gills, guys with BIG lips or vice versa?  Do webbed appendages entice?  Well, Editor Ellen Datlow has put together an anthology that will rock your liquid fantasies. ...

In this month’s edition of DIABOLIQUE’S EXHUMATION COLLECTION, we’re proud to be featuring a story by author Steven Mace entitled “Vortex”. “Vortex” is a short story set in a fantasy universe of Mace’s creation, and although it is only a ...

R.L. Stine burst onto the scene in the 90’s with Goosebumps, a lengthy series of children’s horror novels. Monsters and supernatural forces all permeated the pages, capturing the imagination of children; spawning a popular television series as well. Along with ...