60s Horror: Kwaidan
September 2, 2004 9:21 pm1964/Japan Director: Masaki Kobayashi IMDB Kwaidan is, if I understand thing correctly, considered to be something of a masterpiece of... View Article
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60s Horror: Spider Baby
August 28, 2004 12:08 pm1964/U.S.Director and Writer: Jack HillStarring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Omhart, Quinn Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig IMDB My... View Article
Comic Review: The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty #1
August 19, 2004 9:52 pmWriter: Gabriel Benson | Artist: Mike Hawthorne and Mike AtiyehPublisher: Beckett Comics Reading comics on the web is not always... View Article
Comic Review: The Goon Vol. 1: Nothin’ But Misery
August 11, 2004 4:04 pmWriter | Artist: Eric PowellPublisher: Dark Horse ComicsOfficial Site There’s something about a little psychopath punching out a fortune-telling seal... View Article
"Ghost stories in which the ghost never appears"
August 5, 2004 10:59 amThe always-excellent The Believer has a good interview with one of my favorite short story writers, Dan Chaon. Check it... View Article
Comic Review – Tiempos Finales, Vol. 1
July 30, 2004 7:23 pmwriter | artist: Sam Hitipublished by: La Luz comics It used to be that the major small press/indie comics show... View Article
Movie Review: The Strangler’s Wife
July 26, 2004 9:23 pm2002/USDirector: Michael AllossoIMDB | Official Website If there’s any genre and archetype that has been done, pardon the pun, to... View Article
Addendum to Strangler’s Wife Review
July 26, 2004 9:22 pmA few things I want to elaborate on, but not directly within the context of my review. 1. I’ve no... View Article
Book Review: The Monster Show
July 19, 2004 8:11 pmBy David J. SkalPublisher: Faber and Faber All stories are woven out of well-known and easily identifiable archetypes, according to... View Article
Book Review: Geek Love
July 15, 2004 10:20 pmBy Katherine Dunn Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries Publisher’s Page for the Book Horror fiction is the hardest of all the horror... View Article