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The author of “The Last American Vampire” on fear, historians, and what we don’t know about Hollywood.
When the nominations for the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel were announced last month, it was a very good day for upstart novelist Joe Hill—his second full-length book, NOS4A2, earned a nomination for the year’s top honor. Also on the ballot: Stephen King’s Dr. Sleep, the mega-selling sequel to The Shining. […]
Call it the second-cousin of The Twilight Zone or the offspring of Alfred Hitchcock Presents; either way, the 1980’s TV show Tales From the Darkside did for paranormal horror TV what milk did for cereal. Originally running from 1983 to 1988 and produced by horror legend George Romero, it has been reported that the anthology series is set […]
When you’re a child of Stephen King, it’s perfectly understandable if your mind is a little…twisted. Luckily for the world at large, Joe Hill and his canon are just that, as well as deliciously subversive, cleverly outlandish, and universally spooky. All of those qualities are on display in his subtle, complex, wry, oaky-flavored Horns, which is coming to […]
If you’ve already terrified yourself discovering what bread is doing to your body in David Perlmutter’s Grain Brain, by David Perlmutter, then there’s more where that came from. Sugar, Salt, Fat, by Michael Moss, explores exactly why it is that you love all the junk food you love—because it has been specifically engineered, at a chemical […]