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The Dangers of Being Alone in Gothic Fiction
Stephen King Stephen King involved both psychological “aloneness” and geographic isolation within his books, The Shining and Salem’s Lot. Salem’s Lot wasn’t located on a main road, but it wasn’t so far away that it was completely isolated from other small towns nearby. The majority of the isolation within Salem’s Lot came from the fact that the main protagonists are alone in their knowledge, and their belief in that knowledge. They alone are fighting the good fight, and the odds get harder to overcome as the town is slowly overcome, leaving them fully alone—taking away the members of the small group of fighters until only Ben and Mark are left, the only humans in a world of blood-thirsty vampires. By the end, Ben and Mark are truly alone, surrounded by animals that have lost their human feelings.
By Terry Stone7 years ago in Horror
Author Spotlight: Frank LoProto
It came from 1954. The beast of Sunny Florida. The thing from another world. No, these aren’t movie titles. They’re proper introductions for the first of many authors I hope to spotlight. He’s a horror factory from the East Coast, a lover of the supernatural, and a master of the written word. While you will know him as Frank LoProto, I call him dad. It may sound corny to spotlight a relative, but as I still struggle to find myself as a writer, it seemed appropriate to start this series off with an individual that means so much to my own career.
By Mark LoProto7 years ago in Horror
Crypt TV Fables: Who Is the Piper?
I discovered Crypt TV a few months ago when an episode of Jon Solo's Messed Up Origins series covered the story of the Pied Piper. I subsequently went back and watched some of their other videos and was impressed with what I found.
By Greg Seebregts7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Brightburn' Fails to Fire Up Scares
Brightburn ruined my day. I was in a good mood before I saw this nasty, brutal, B-movie. What if Superman were evil, and Ma and Pa Kent were morons; that's the premise of Brightburn. Take the paragon of virtue, Superman, and make him a figure of ugly malevolence. Subversion is a perfectly suitable goal, but you’d better have a good point to said subversion, be it merely an interesting thinkpiece or an alt-world comic book. Unfortunately, all Brightburn has is a premise, and a taste for blood.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Color Out of Space' (2010)
AKA 'The title soon to be added to horror movies ruined by Nicolas Cage' The Color Out Of Space (2019/2020). This story by H. P. Lovecraft has had dozens of cinematic adaptations, all of which did things right and things wrong. Colour From The Dark (2008) was the first movie I ever reviewed, and is the reason my blog went from politics to horror reviews. The review took up maybe six lines, but got triple the hits of any of my long winded political opinions, and the rest is history.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Tea Party for Two
Serena is laughing beside me on the couch, her silky hair brushes my shoulder. I am envious of her hair, all silver blonde curls, and no sign of split ends, or of it not behaving as it should. My hair is long gone now, as are my eyebrows, and my eye lashes. Chemotherapy took those away months ago, and every chance my hair had to grow back, chemo took it away again.
By Faith Heple7 years ago in Horror
