For this shockingly terrible and frightful A-Z of horror blog this week I have chosen something so utterly horrid that it will make you go pale. It is the most brutal of murders, the most hideous of monsters and the most dreadful of reviews. To gaze upon it would make even the most hard-hearted of … Read more
This week I have a contractual obligation to write the A-Z of horror. This is one of the most influential tales to have shaped scary stories, legends and lawyers for centuries, but I would say that, it’s in my contract to do so. If you want to make anything of yourself, you need to make … Read more
“Somebody blows their nose, and you want to keep it?” (Venkman, 1984). This week is all about the slime that holds the spooky spirited apparitions of the dearly departed, and nefarious naughties, together. That is right, no haunting can ever truly be complete without… E is for Ectoplasm From the parlours of Victorian … Read more
Think hard, as without memory you’ll never understand what you ever did to deserve this. It is time for my A to Z of horror. This week I am because I published, the Village is controlled by the children, and every night I’m there I break my heart to please. That’s right… D is … Read more
And so, the A-Z of horror, according to me, continues. In this blog, I want to examine an element of horror that is more terrifying than a terrifying terror trying to terrify a Trevor. Now that’s terrifying! And if you can get what it’s going to be from that, you can probably tell everyone what … Read more
OK, so just how does one follow the amazing job that Ashley Lister did on his A-Z of horror? I know, with my own version. Not just a rehash of the format. If I am going to follow the master, then I must play to my strengths. So, in this A-Z of horror I will … Read more
Start listing classic horror movies from the 70s and, after mentioning The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror, it won’t take long before someone suggests The Omen. The Omen (1976) was directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. According to Wikipedia: The story introduces Robert Thorn, the American Ambassador in Italy who adopts the … Read more
Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire, first appearing in the stories by horror writer HP Lovecraft, and later being mentioned by his followers. It was first referenced in Lovecraft’s 1924 short story ‘The Hound’ written in 1922, although its most nefarious author, the ‘Mad Arab’ Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft’s ‘The … Read more
by Ashley Lister We have science fiction that goes back as far as 1683 with Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone. According to Edward Simon in The Atlantic, the plot of this story is relatively familiar to contemporary readers. An explorer builds a space ship and meets aliens on another world. They are a … Read more