Tag Archives: literature

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 ...

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 ...

About a month ago, I began what was supposed to be a short retrospective on the recently restored early Polish films of Andrzej Zuławski – The Third Part of the Night, The Devil, and On the Silver Globe, followed by ...

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 ...

It was announced very recently that 20th Century Fox has become the winner in an intense bidding war over the film rights to the famous Agatha Christie novel Murder On The Orient Express. After having acquiring the rights from RLJ ...

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 ...

Joseph Nassise’s new Jeremiah Hunt novel, Watcher of the Dark is available today from Tor Books. DIABOLIQUE contributor Shelia M. Merrit had a chance to chat with him following her review of the new novel. Check out her interview with ...

In Watcher of the Dark, Author Joseph Nassise expertly carries on the exploits of his vision-impaired protagonist, Jeremiah Hunt. The author incorporates information from the two previous books in the series with fine precision. Although no prior reading is required to ...

The Witches has become the default title of Peter Curtis’s 1960 occult novel, due to the 1966 Hammer adaptation. It was originally The Devil’s Own, however, and later became The Little Wax Doll, published under the author’s real name of Norah Lofts. This latest ...

In David Fincher’s 1995 thriller Se7en, an obese man pays for the sin of gluttony by being force-fed to death. The results are shown in gruesome detail. But the concept isn’t totally original. We already saw a slew of young ...