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Laurie Sheck is a renowned poet and novelist. A Monster’s Notes, her first novel, intertwines the stories of Mary Shelley and her most famous creation, Frankenstein’s Monster, in a tale that parallels both. Sheck answered a few questions recently about the enduring allure of Frankenstein, sympathetic monsters and the legacy of Shelley and her mother.
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Imagine, if you will, that someone threw 40 years of Weird Tales magazine, several moldy Dungeons & Dragons handbooks, and a tincture of the junk-infused nightmares of William Burroughs into some kind of haunted blender and set it on puree for a solid minute. Then imagine that same person feeding the mixture to a homonculus made of pure batsh*t crazy and then giving said homonculus a laptop. Carcosa might be the result – and I mean that as a compliment.
I discovered Stephen King in seventh grade. My junior high school library had a library-bound copy of his classic first novel Carrie. I grabbed the book on impulse and checked it out with a handful of other titles – all but forgotten now in the nuclear pulse and afterburn of Stephen King’s terrifying tale of [...]
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This week’s excerpt is only a few days before All Hallows Eve, so the DRS team thought it was only appropriate to give you a little scare heading into your weekend. Click Read More…if you can handle the terror…
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While there are a great many zombie anthologies on the market these days, few are as comprehensive as Otto Penzler’s newly published collection Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!. Following on the success of his prior anthology of supernatural horror, The Vampire Archives, Penzler’s massive tome exhaustively surveys the breadth of popular literature for the finest tales of [...]
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Dracula is the king of the vampires. While modern vampire fans may thrill to tales of Edward Cullen and Lestat, no other nosferatu has the kind of name recognition that the Count enjoys. From his first appearance and (spoiler alert!) death at the point of Quincy Morris’ bowie knife, Dracula has shown a talent for returning from the grave over and over again.
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Ben H. Winters’ Bedbugs (September 6, Quirk Books) is the horrific story of a woman coping with a persistent infestation of bed bugs in her new apartment. Or is she? Are the bed bugs real, or all in her head? Or maybe this is something worse than bed bugs. Zombie novels may disgust you. Ghost stories [...]
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Kirsten Imani Kasai is the author the 2009 novel Ice Song, a New Weird science fiction tale of predatory corporations, human/animal genetic hybrids and gender-switching protagonists. This week Kasai returned to this world with the release of her novel Tattoo. She recently spoke with me about her early wanderlust, the fluidity of gender roles and what inspired the genetic hybrids of her novel.
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This year, Tobe Hooper, director of the classic grindhouse shocker The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, brings his bloody vision to a new venue: the cinema of the mind. Hooper, along with some help from Paul is Undead author Alan Goldsher, has released his first novel: Midnight Movie. A meta-fictional horror novel that’s one part pseudo-biographical documentary [...]
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We’ve got the scoop on Tobe Hooper’s new novel ‘Midnight Movie’ and a run-down of thirteen creepy horror flicks that walk the line between fantasy and reality. Live now at sister site Word & Film!
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You guys must also consider that Drew here didn't write the stroyline for the second installment...