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Reader Beware: The Art of Goosebumps is a Nostalgic Retrospective for Former Young Ghouls

Posted on February 10, 2022 (January 4, 2024) by Ally Russell

Tim Jacobus’s iconic cover art shines in this comprehensive history of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series–it’s more fun than a day trip to Horrorland! […]

February 10, 2022 Books

Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see. (Event Horizon, 1997)

Adrift & Alone: The Five Ghost Ships That Haunt Me

Posted on February 9, 2022 (January 9, 2024) by S.A. Barnes

Dead Silence author S.A. Barnes on the ghost ships (both fictional and all-too-real) that haunt her nightmares, from the Event Horizon to the Lyubov Orlova. […]

February 9, 2022 Books, On Screen

Remembering Bill Landis, the Late, Great Scholar of Sleaze

Posted on December 14, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Preston Fassel

Biographer Preston Fassel reintroduces the man behind the myth, the grandfather of modern genre criticism, Mr. Sleazoid himself: Bill Landis. […]

December 14, 2021 Books, On Screen

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A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel

Posted on October 21, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Bethany Clift

Last One at the Party author Bethany Clift explores the indefinability of horror, her own formative experiences with fear, & realizing she’d written a horror novel. […]

October 21, 2021 Books

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How to Tell a True Ghost Story

Posted on October 4, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Gabino Iglesias

Gabino Iglesias recounts his personal encounters with ghosts and what they mean to him both as a believer and a writer of horror. […]

October 4, 2021 Miscellaneous

Alison Brie making good choices in The Rental (2020)

Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second Floor

Posted on August 19, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Sam Reader

Horror fans like to joke about slasher victims running upstairs – but what if it’s actually not such a bad idea? One writer’s modest proposal. […]

August 19, 2021 Miscellaneous

1840s Wallpaper, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Your Inside(s) Aren’t Safe: Killer Color in the Domestic Gothic

Posted on August 9, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Chelsea Davis

Continuing her series on color in horror, Chelsea Davis dives deep into fatal hues in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and more. […]

August 9, 2021 Books

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Get Lost: Fictional and True Stories of Forest Horror

Posted on May 10, 2021 (January 9, 2024) by Ally Russell

Take a hike into horror with these documentaries, podcasts, movies, and books about getting lost in the woods–forever. […]

May 10, 2021 Books, On Screen

6 Works of Horror Memoir True Enough to Be Terrifying

Posted on March 10, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Sam Reader

These six books look at the ways in which horror influences and is influenced by our culture, our history, and ourselves. […]

March 10, 2021 Books

Toni Collette as Annie, Hereditary (2018)

The Science of Women in Horror Brilliantly Dissects Horror Movie Tropes and Traditions

Posted on February 23, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Sadie Hartmann

From final girls to femme fatales, The Science of Women in Horror is a great dissection of tropes and traditions in horror movies. […]

February 23, 2021 Books, On Screen

Cover detail, Let's Play White (2011)

On Being the Other in an Outsider Genre: Interviewing Chesya Burke

Posted on February 8, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Tyhitia Green

This Women in Horror Month, we spoke to horror author and academic Chesya Burke talks Black horror, Octavia Butler, and writing rituals. […]

February 8, 2021 Books

Blue Light of the Screen Is a Hauntingly Good Horror Memoir

Posted on December 10, 2020 (January 4, 2024) by Sam Reader

Claire Cronin’s book is a fascinating blend of memoir and horror criticism – a must for any horror fan who likes the why just as much as the what. […]

December 10, 2020 Books

It's all a bunch of hocus pocus | Photo by Marco Roman on Unsplash

Salem Prevails: A Remote Halloween Guide to Witch City, USA

Posted on October 30, 2020 (January 4, 2024) by Ally Russell

Couldn’t make it to Salem this October? Let us guide you through a virtual multimedia Halloween tour of the Witch City! […]

October 30, 2020 Books, Miscellaneous, On Screen

"Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. / [WKL]." Original by Warren K. Leffler (Aug. 28th, 1963), colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Via Unseen Histories on Unsplash.

When History is Horror, and Horror is History

Posted on September 11, 2020 (January 4, 2024) by Errick Nunnally

Errick Nunnally argues that American history – from genocide and slavery to racist violence encoded in law – is more frightening than any horror fiction. […]

September 11, 2020 Books

Reader Beware: The Art of Goosebumps is a Nostalgic Retrospective for Former Young Ghouls

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Reader Beware: The Art of Goosebumps is a Nostalgic Retrospective for Former Young Ghouls

Reader Beware: The Art of Goosebumps is a Nostalgic Retrospective for Former Young Ghouls

Adrift & Alone: The Five Ghost Ships That Haunt Me

Adrift & Alone: The Five Ghost Ships That Haunt Me

Remembering Bill Landis, the Late, Great Scholar of Sleaze

Remembering Bill Landis, the Late, Great Scholar of Sleaze

A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel

A Genre for the Individual: Bethany Clift on Accidentally Writing a Horror Novel

How to Tell a True Ghost Story

How to Tell a True Ghost Story

Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second Floor

Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second Floor

Your Inside(s) Aren’t Safe: Killer Color in the Domestic Gothic

Your Inside(s) Aren’t Safe: Killer Color in the Domestic Gothic

Get Lost: Fictional and True Stories of Forest Horror

Get Lost: Fictional and True Stories of Forest Horror

6 Works of Horror Memoir True Enough to Be Terrifying

6 Works of Horror Memoir True Enough to Be Terrifying

The Science of Women in Horror Brilliantly Dissects Horror Movie Tropes and Traditions

The Science of Women in Horror Brilliantly Dissects Horror Movie Tropes and Traditions

On Being the Other in an Outsider Genre: Interviewing Chesya Burke

On Being the Other in an Outsider Genre: Interviewing Chesya Burke

Blue Light of the Screen Is a Hauntingly Good Horror Memoir

Blue Light of the Screen Is a Hauntingly Good Horror Memoir

Salem Prevails: A Remote Halloween Guide to Witch City, USA

Salem Prevails: A Remote Halloween Guide to Witch City, USA

When History is Horror, and Horror is History

When History is Horror, and Horror is History

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