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Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Baltimore: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire

In the darkest days of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore, then a Captain in the English Army, watches his men fall in battle. Himself injured, he barely fights off a nocturnal predator, and in doing so, unleashes the unholy … Continue reading

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and its sequels, prequels and remakes: Psycho II, Psycho III, Bates Motel, Psycho IV: The Beginning, and Psycho

Psycho, the 1960 film by Alfred Hitchcock from the novel by Robert Bloch (which was in turn based on the life of Ed Gein, also the inspiration for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs), is such … Continue reading

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John Clute’s The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror

Ahhhh, come in. Let me set aside Catherynne M. Valente’s new novel The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden – lovely take on The Arabian Nights motif with elements of fantasy and horror in it. What’s that on my desk? … Continue reading

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Danny Boyle’x 28 Days Later

Rachel Manija Brown wrote this review. It takes less than a second for a person’s life to hit free-fall, the point at which death is imminent and inevitable. A dropped CD distracting you from the freeway ahead, a step forward … Continue reading

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Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifth Annual Collection

Joselle Vandershoot wrote this review. Since the first Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology was released in 1988, the series has been a touchstone for remarkable and ground-breaking genre writing from around the world, and the series’ fifth edition (covering … Continue reading

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John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

John Langan’s Corpsemouth and Other Autobigraphies is a collection of short stories ranging from the weird to the horrific and on to the just plain odd. With both llengthier and briefer examples, this collection will likely chill. “Kore” starts as … Continue reading

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Al Sarrantonio’s Halloween and Other Seasons, Matt Warner’s Horror Isn’t a Four-Letter Word, and H. P. Lovecraft and S. T. Joshi’s The Annotated Supernatural Horror In Literature

Halloween and Other Seasons collects eighteen stories previously published in such venues as Cemetery Dance Magazine, Asimov’s, and (one of my favorite horror anthologies from last year) Midnight Premiere. While Sarrantonio’s stories range in style from science fiction Westerns to … Continue reading

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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Series: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, and The Wastelands

The Gunslinger “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With those deceptively straightforward words, world-renowned horror writer Stephen King launches (and rather neatly sums up) the first volume of his sprawling epic fantasy series The … Continue reading

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Stephen King’s Under the Dome and Blockade Billy

At first blush, it may seem odd to review these two Stephen King works together. After all, one is a weighty tome – literally, clocking in at nearly 1,100 pages – about a small Maine town trapped beneath a bizarre … Continue reading

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Victor Salva’s Jeepers Creepers

“Jeepers, Creepers, where’d you get those peepers?” — Louis Armstrong Siblings Trish and Derry are heading home for Spring Break, taking the back roads so Trish can get over a broken relationship before she breaks it to her parents. In … Continue reading

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