Monthly Archives: October 2015

I’m not sure about the music (it’s growing on me, though), but the video with Rose McGowan channelling Nosferatu and other horror icons is certainly appropriate for Halloween.

And yet more “recent” horror. The Purge (2013) America in 2022 and thanks to the New Founding Fathers the country has one night a year when any act of violence, up to and including murder, is allowed, with emergency services … Continue reading →

Following on from Monday’s post, here are the remaining four reviews from a feature on DarkFuse novellas that originally appeared in Black Static #34:- DARKFUSE NOVELLAS (Continued) The mad artist is a familiar figure in horror fiction, and Nicole Cushing … Continue reading →

Three more “recently” watched horror movies. Amityville III: The Demon (1983) This was shown on the Horror Channel (they have a lot to answer for), and it was originally made to be shown in 3D which may account for why … Continue reading →

Demons unleashed from an ancient forest.

Three reviews that originally appeared in Black Static #34 as part of a feature on DarkFuse novellas:- DARKFUSE NOVELLAS Author Michael McBride seems to have a thing for the word ‘blind’ in his titles. The last book I reviewed by … Continue reading →

ITEM: #1 was way back in December 2013, if anyone is keeping track. I had a lot more to say for myself then. ITEM: It’s been a while, but I am still getting a disproportionate amount of pleasure from carelessly … Continue reading →

I rather like this:-

With the countdown to Halloween underway, we shall have horror, and lots of it. An American Haunting (2005) This film is supposedly based on true events, the story of the Bell Witch, a case of possession which allegedly took place … Continue reading →

Reviews of three books by Jack Ketchum that originally appeared in Black Static #5:- ON THE SIDE OF THE VICTIM: A JACK KETCHUM FEATURETTE Stephen King said that he was probably the “scariest guy in America” (which suggests SK doesn’t … Continue reading →