Category: Horror
Blumhouse tried reinventing two classic horror films. Only one worked.
(These are two movie reviews cross-posted from my own blog). The Invisible Man (2020) hooked me from the opening sequence in which Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) sneaks away from her husband …
There was a time Holmes battling Lovecraftian horrors would have been unusual
Which is how I came to write my first published story back in 1983. Not that I’m claiming The Adventure of the Red Leech was the first such crossover — …
Spoiled for Psycho (a question of the week post)
I’m going to make a wild guess that my fellow bloggers and our readers have, at some point in their lives, seen spoilers they’d rather not have known before they …
What, if anything, is a Lovecraftian story?
My short story The Happiest Place on Earth is now available for purchase in the LOLcraft anthology of Lovecraftian humor. Which is, of course, a contradiction in terms. Just as …
What was the idea here?
H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” is one of the great tales of cosmic terror. It has inspired a variety of covers attempting to capture the unspeakable horror within its pages. …
We didn’t see it coming: fiction and pandemic
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like — hell, most of …