Category Archives: horror

Darryl Jones on Thematic Horror

March 31st, 2009 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror

Darryl Jones teaches at the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (A. Hodder Arnold, 2003). After several weeks of trying to connect we were finally able to get together to explore some of the topics covered in this fine book. TheoFantastique: […]

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LOTTD Unity Post: Roger Ebert and Horror Fans

March 27th, 2009 | Posted in horror, LOTTD

My fellow members of LOTTD are participating in a unity post focused around some recent comments by film critic Roger Ebert. In a film review for The Last House on the Left earlier this month, Ebert made this comment: “Other scenes, while violent, fell within the range of contemporary horror films, which strive to invent […]

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Long History and Many Forms: Chaos Monsters Then and Today

March 20th, 2009 | Posted in chaos monster, horror, slasher films

For as long as human beings have been trying to explain their place in the cosmos they have been creating monsters. We are familiar with many of the contemporary versions of these creatures, but what we might not readily recognize is that one monster in particular seems to be dominant throughout history and across cultures. […]

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Rue Morgue – Divinity in Darkness: The Rise of Christian Horror

March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Christianity, Gothic horror, horror, Rue Morgue magazine

The cover of the current issue of Rue Morgue magazine, Issue #87 highlights a double referent in its contents which dovetail with an emphasis of this blog in its analysis of the religious and social aspects of horror and the fantastic. The cover points toward an article on “Pascal Laugier’s religious-themed torture porn,” but of real […]

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Heather Duda: The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture

March 13th, 2009 | Posted in horror, monster hunter

McFarland is one of my favorite publishers and a recent title caught my attention with the publication in 2008 of Heather Duda’s The Monster Hunter in Popular Culture. Duda is an assistant professor of English at the University of Rio Grande in Rio Grande, Ohio. With this volume she addresses a deficit in the academic literature […]

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Diary of the Dead: Romero’s Continued Commentary Through the Flesh-Eating Dead

March 11th, 2009 | Posted in horror, Uncategorized, zombie

Last weekend my teenage son bought me a copy of Diary of the Dead (2008), George Romero’s latest installment in his infamous zombie series of films. I realize that the movie has been out for a while and that a number of reviews and commentary have been posted, but given the focus of this blog I […]

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John Stanley: Story of a Television Horror Host

March 9th, 2009 | Posted in American Scary, Bob Wilkins, Creature Features, horror, horror host, I Was a TV Horror Host: The John Stanley Story, John Stanley, Watch Horror Films Keep America Strong

As regular readers of this blog may recall, I grew up in northern California in the 1970s, and part of my formative experiences with the fantastic involved Creature Features originally hosted by the late Bob Wilkins, and later by John Stanley. John recently contacted me to let me know about a new feature-length documentary on […]

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Horror, Sci Fi, Taboo and Suicide

February 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Dread Reckoning, horror, suicide

In a recent post I made my own selections for the Premio Dardo Award, a blogger to blogger recognition of a sound contribution to weblogging. One of my selections was Dread Reckoning that is part of PopMatters, a magazine of cultural criticism and exploration. Dread Reckoning is the work of Marco Lanzagorta who goes into […]

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American Scary: A Tribute to the Golden Age of the Horror Hosts

February 11th, 2009 | Posted in American Scary, horror, horror host

American Scary, a new documentary is now available that I had the privilege of watching last weekend, is now available which represents a great film on an important aspect of pop culture that will take many down memory lane. This film is a nostalgic homage to the glory days of the late night horror shows […]

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Jasmine Day Interview – The Mummy’s Curse: Mummymania in the English-Speaking World

February 8th, 2009 | Posted in horror, Jasmine Day, mummy, mummymania

One of my personal areas of interest and research which provides one of the emphases of this blog is the growing academic literature on horror, science fiction, and fantasy. A while back I was reading through the bibliographical material for one such work and I came across a volume that caught my attention because it […]

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