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November 2008

This Gift will Hook Them on Horror

November 30, 2008

December is almost upon us and as it is time for more gift ideas.

Here is a great and useful gift many horror writers wouldn’t necessarily have. Hooked on Horror is a readers’ advisory tool that a librarian would use to help them find a scary book for a patron. I submit that it is useful for the writer in a couple of ways. First and foremost, any serious writer of horror needs to make a study of the genre.

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All I Want For Christmas . . .

November 28, 2008

“But it’s too early to blog about Christmas,” I hear you say. “We haven’t even reached Thanksgiving!”

True, but we are living in desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. Surely you’ve seen the news, and you know just how desperate. You’ve heard the cries from Washington and Wall Street and Detroit. It’s a Global Economic Meltdown(TM), and just in time for the Holiday Shopping Season(TM).

Run and hide!

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Have a Happy Thanksgiving

November 27, 2008

From the Undead Rat and family to you — have a Happy Thanksgiving Day. And watch out for zombie turkeys, they’re not as tasty as you might think. –Ye Olde Undead Rat

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More of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing

November 26, 2008

“If she wanted something she could share with others she should have chosen a mystery . . . for secrets must be kept forever.”

This collection reprints more of Alan Moore’s classic run on The Saga of the Swamp Thing.

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Of Energy Crisis, Apocalypse and Cannibalism

November 25, 2008

“You wanna know what the worst part was? It wasn’t watching my family and friends die, seeing them slaughtered in front of us. It was the waiting. Waiting for dark. They always come at night.”

For the fourth entry in our look at the 2007 After Dark Horrrorfest Movie series, we check out a movie that could have been good, except for the many plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. Welcome to the end of the world where running out of oil and gas causes cannibalism. Welcome to Tooth & Nail.

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Gifts for the Horror Comic Book Writer

November 24, 2008

Horror comics are wildly popular these days. Comic book writers like Steve Niles, Scott Allie and writer/artists like Mike Mignola have made a names for themselves scaring people with comics. However, even established horror novelists like Brian Keene, Charlie Houston and Scott Nicholson or television producers like Joss Whedon are getting into horror comics in [...]

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