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SLASH : A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Welcome to SLASH – A Horror Movie Podcast! With our second season I am going to be watching and discussing the films from the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise – starting with the original 1984 classic and ending (for now?) with the 2010 remake.
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PixThis pioneering work in the splatterpunk genre by John Skipp and Craig Spector explores a violent, graphic horror narrative, which makes it a must-read for any splatterpunk enthusiast. To add a comment, download the Likewise app from your device's app store. PixWritten by Clive Barker, a renowned author in the splatterpunk genre, 'Books of Blood' is a collection of intensely gory and horrifying stories that perfectly embody the splatterpunk style.
10 of the Scariest Vampire Books to Read Until Your Blood Runs Cold
I know I’m so late to the party, but I recently got the vampire itch after reading Dracula for the first time. I was surprised by just how many of the typical “vampire” characteristics were formed in that book. The coffin-dwelling, blood-sucking, mind-controlling monsters in that book were so much more horrifying when framed in a Victorian narrative as the characters grappled with how to take them down. I think, looking at vampires with modern eyes, it can feel like they’re not scary at all.
7 Underrated Horror Books of 2021
No Books Left Behind: 7 Underrated Horror Books of 2021 These books deserve more time in the spotlight. By Michael J. Seidlinger | Published Jan 10, 2022 Photo Credit: Cover, The Boy with the Spider Face by AJ Franks Don't Push the Button By John Skipp Searching for the best horror books around? Sign up for The Lineup's newsletter to get terrifying recommendations delivered straight to your inbox.
Out of the Ruins
Description WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding from the monsters on the other side of the wall, can we turn the cataclysm into an opportunity?
Skipp's Self-Isolating ABC’S of the COVID-19 (Stage One)
Alphabet photo by Magda Ehlers AUTHOR’S NOTE — If there’s one symptom of the coronavirus that’s spread faster than the virus itself, it’s writer’s block through the writer’s community. You don’t even have to catch the bug itself, cuz it’s already done a number on our heads. And I can’t even tell you how many hundreds of writers I’ve seen on social media, lamenting their inability to pull their thoughts together and make something out of words. You may be one of them.
The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1|Paperback
WARNING!!! EVERY MOVIE YOU EVER LOVED MAY ALREADY BE BIZARRO! From the first silent movies to the latest YouTube craze, Bizarro weirdness has always been the secret ingredient that glues our eyeballs to the screen. Transported beyond regular life. To places we only dared dream. WELCOME TO THE WILD WORLD OF BIZARRO FILM! Where the cheapest outlaw cult flicks collide with the sneakiest big-budget mainstream subversions. Hitting us from every angle. Altering our brainscapes from childhood on.
Tasting the Hurricane with John Skipp and Lindsay Lerman
Lindsay Lerman: I met splatterpunk legend John Skipp in Portland, Oregon in March of 2019. I was there for AWP—the annual conference and convention for writers, publishers, and students—to read from my upcoming book and to meet “the industry.” John saw me read, and the next day my publishers introduced us.
FUNGASM PRESS - OFFICIAL PRE-SALE LAUNCH PARTY!!!
HI! And welcome to the official pre-sales launch party for Fungasm Press! We're a unique boutique imprint of Eraserhead Press, the flagship of the evolving Bizarro genre (oft-described as the literary equivalent of the “cult” section in a really great video store, for those of you who still remember video stores, or what “cult” means in the coolest countercultural art-o-tainment sense).
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Portland, OR
Get Exclusive perks in our HPLFF 2023 Portland, OR Kickstarter! Our annual fundraising campaign is LIVE! Every year, this lets the community pledge to help the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival® take place in Portland, OR without the need for big corporate sponsors. It covers upfront expenses like theater rental, and the hundreds of myriad expenses from transportation to badge printing that go into putting on a show of this scale, hosted by two Lovecraftian horror fans and their horde of volunteers.
The 10 Best Horror Books You've Never Read
Nick Cutter's The Deep is The Shining meets The Abyss--something is happening at a research station at the bottom of the Pacific, and horror fans will relish every frightening page. Cutter picked 10 of his favorite off-the-radar horror novels. I’ve been reading horror since I was a kid. I was a lummox, you see, and my parents were pleased to see me reading anything. They weren’t too fussed about what may have been sandwiched between the covers of the books I carted around.
John Biggs (Author of Bloggers Boot Camp)
“Every 30 seconds, it transmitted portions of [a Chopin Polonaise] to tell the world that the capital was still in Polish hands. Angered by the unexpected setback, the German High Command decided to pound the stubborn citadel into submission. In round-the-clock raids, bombers knocked out flourmills, gasworks, power plants and reservoirs, then sowed the residential areas with incendiaries.
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