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Tag Archives: horror
Reynold Humphries’ The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, and Steffen Hantke, editor’s Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945
Kestrell Rath wrote this review. There is a growing body of high-quality critical writing about the horror film, both classic and contemporary, and part of this criticism has begun to address the ongoing dichotomy between the often confused and disparaging … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film
Tagged fim criticism, horror
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F. Paul Wilson’s The Haunted Air
As I said in my omnibus look at the previous volumes in this series, ‘Sometimes why we review something here at Green Man is as interesting as what we review. I honestly had not planned on reviewing this series, as … Continue reading
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream is an anthology that also serves as a love letter to the Deamlands stories of H.P. Lovecraft and others. Filled with carefully chosen stories themed after dreams and a … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, urban fantasy
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Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Craig Clarke wrote this review. Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen Who never thereafter were heard of again, Did Sweeney, Did Sweeney Todd, The demon … Continue reading
Sean Hogan’s England’s Screaming
Sean Hogan’s England’s Screaming is an interesting piece of literary studies as fiction. Specifically, it takes a number of icons and figures from British horror and attempts to build a coherent timeline of events assuming they occupy a united world. … Continue reading
Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
“Captain, the corpses are fighting the skeletons!” I saw the trailer for Warm Bodies when I had gone to see something else, and thought “Cute, but probably not something I’ll want to see.” Well, I was looking to kill a … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
This review was written by Rebecca Scott. I admit to some trepidation about writing this review. So many authors, editors, musicians, and reviewers have said so much about these books. This series altered the face of the comics industry. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged comics, fantasy, horror
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Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere: The Author’s Preferred Text (The Illustrated Edition)
There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, horror, illustrated books, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
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Neil Gaiman’s Sandman audio-drama
It’s hard work to adapt the Sandman graphic series to another medium, but I’ll say that Audible, with the participation of the author as the narrator, has done it most excellently. It’s a full cast production with the usual exceedingly high … Continue reading
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Tagged audiobooks, fantasy, horror
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Robert Valentine’s Doctor Who: The Lovecraft Invasion
Doctor Who: The Lovecraft Invasion is Robert Valentine’s look at the famed horror author through the lense of a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama. Featuring a living weapon that feeds on the fears of its host, the tale quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, mystery, science fiction
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