Most people enjoy a good scare, even if they hit you a thump after you’ve jumped out of the closet at them wearing a Michael Myers mask (sorry Granny!). Hollywood has long known of the profit to be made from enticing people into a packed movie house where the group shake and scream together. Over […]
This is a light-hearted look at some of Ireland’s ghostly places. The list is not complete, as phantoms and apparitions inhabit every parish and cupboard across the Emerald Isle. It is said that there are hundreds of ghastly ghouls, for example, who linger in Leinster House in Dublin for most of the political year. The […]
Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar It’s the August 22nd, 1974, and Gwendy Peterson is a chubby twelve-year-old determined to lose weight before changing schools. She goes daily to the metal stairs that lead up the rock face to Castle View, and climbs as fast as she can to burn off all […]
Everyone enjoys a fright – except that old lady you jumped out on who keeled over with a mild heart attack and then sued you – and the Entertainment Industry has long known this. Horror movies have always been popular. From Bela Lugosi to Kate Beckinsdale, we are entranced by actors who scare us. To […]
Strange Weather by Joe Hill This is a collection of four short novels by King the Younger, one of two male novelists sired by that master of horror writing, Stephen King. Joe Hill does have some of his auwl fella’s physical characteristics, but it’s his writing and the high standard therein that most readily marks […]
What The Night Knows by Dean Koontz Detective John Calvino is a man haunted by the events of a horrific childhood that he has shared with only his devoted and loving wife, artist painter, Nicolette. When Calvino visits a 14 years old killer, Billy Lucas, in prison, he begins to suspect that there is more […]
This is a relatively short compilation of clips in which King speaks frankly about his life and the processes he employs for writing. There are some great and revealing insights into his career. The author displays a great sense of timing as he recounts incidents, such as his visit to watch the movie adaptation of […]
Nightmare by Stephen Leather This is book 3 in the Jack Nightingale series and is yet another strong addition to what is one of the more unusual yet engrossing story-lines. Nightingale is a former cop with the London Met who doubled as a hostage negotiator. It was as a crisis manager that he first encountered […]
This light look at the two versions of the terrifying adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel, IT, compares the two different takes on the psycho clown, Pennywise. Only brave readers should look into this, as Pennywise may enter your dreams. You don’t want Pennywise in your dreams, do you? Enjoyed this? Why not […]
The Dark Half by Stephen King George Stark. Not a very nice guy. This is the tagline for King’s 1989 classic horror tale about a novelist and his uber-violent alter-ego. We can only hope that the premise of The Dark Half is not entirely auto-biographical. It begins with headaches suffered by 11 years old Thad […]
This is a brief list of quotes from possibly the greatest author ever to have lived. He is a person who makes you think. That would be a great epitaph to have. – If you care, give it a share –
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy Patrick Gamble is a fairly regular young man in a world where the lycan problem is growing. The werewolves are unhappy about the continual erosion of their civil rights, and Patrick finds himself swept up in an epic tale of terror, heroism, loss and hope. Of course it doesn’t help […]
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