There’s a good question posed here, one that I’ve been thinking about for a few days now: How do you define horror?
I think, as Supreme Court justices do with pornography, we all probably know horror when we see it. Or we do most of the time, at least. But knowing something on site isn’t the [...]

writer: Jai Senartist: Rizky Wasisto Edipublished by Shoto Press
(this article originally appeared in Rue Morgue #35, Sept./Oct. 2003)
A light, but no less accomplished for it, strain of horror is offered in The Malay Mysteries, a pair of uniquely designed and printed comics dramatizing Indonesian folks tales.
The series kicks off with its darkest offering, Garlands of [...]

2001/JapanDirector: Takashi Miike
(this article originally appeared in Rue Morgue #33, May/June 2003)
“Some things are truly strange,” states the main character of Visitor Q, just before he has sex with the dead body of his murdered lover. Visitor Q gleefully shatters boundaries and taboos. Incest? Check. On-camera lactation? Got it. Necrophilia? Yup. Prostitution, drug addition, anal [...]

I always feel at the outset of these kinds of enterprises (whether they’re blogs, zines, magazines, whatever) the need to articulate the point of the thing’s existence. And though I think the subhead above encapsulates the goal of the blog pretty well, I feel a bit of a need to explain myself some more.
I decided [...]