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Ashley Lister’s A – Z of Horror: A is for Aliens

February 3, 2021 by Ashley Lister

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

Monsters

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 by Colin Davies

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. From the gigantic battling behemoths Godzilla and King Kong to the all-consuming cellula beasts in The Thing. Huge accent gods found at the Mountains of Madness or insignificant humans whose atrocities in death camps and killing fields far outdo those of fictional creatures. The primal fear of what … Read more