Art Horror

#31Days features 65 essays and reviews covering everything from Don Coscarelli's Phantasm series to the anthology horror show Masters of Horror. This nonfiction collection follows the spirit of Sketching Details, Robert's long-running entertainment media criticism website. Horror deserves the same level of respect and analysis as any other genre.

I was a “Monster Kid” and “The Weird Kid, The Horror Movie Kid.” I found out early…horror is always personal. Now I make horror for a living. It shouldn’t just be WATCHED. Horror should be ENJOYED. This isn’t some stuffy analysis telling you what’s good or bad. Instead, it’s a tour of the 1930s through the 1980s—a personal account of how the best and worst of this era gave us so many memories and experiences that impacted our own lives. It’s fun…just how horror should always be.

November 1963. Cade and Anja have lived in hiding for a decade, training new mages. Then the assassination of President John F. Kennedy triggers a series of murders whose victims are all magicians - with Cade, Anja, and their allies as its prime targets. Their only hope of survival: learning how to fight back against the sinister cabal known as the Shadow Commission.

From psychologist, researcher, and horror film enthusiast Brian A. Sharpless comes Monsters on the Couch, an exploration into the real-life psychological disorders behind famous horror movies. Accounts of clinical syndromes every bit as dramatic as those on the silver screen are juxtaposed with fascinating forays into the science and folklore behind our favorite movie monsters.

At 14, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms "Violin Concerto" in Vienna, winning high praise from the composer himself. Instantly famous, Huberman began touring all over the world and received invitations to play for royalty across Europe. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, he committed his phenomenal talent and celebrity to aid humanity. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan European Movement.

Katherine O'Donnell was born with a disfiguring strawberry birthmark across the bottom of her face. In 1880s London, that was enough to discourage suitors. Love was something for which she yearned, but never found within her reach. Out of necessity, she became adept at hiding inside her home and behind makeups she formulated and applied herself. When tragedy upended her modest life and dumped her out onto the streets, she was bereft of options. She answered an advertisement for a mortuary assistant.

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The entity is ancient. It has taken form before, in other places, other guises. This time the place is Buffalo. The form is that of a magnificent woman...created from the dreams of a child. The eternal hunger is immense. The entity must feed. And it's prey is human. Psychic detective Ryerson Biertgarten is appalled at the savagery of the first killings. Far worse lies ahead, for the detective as well as the city. He is falling in love with a wonderful woman - but Joan will die - unless he can stop... The Devouring...

Ariel Temple is leading a perfectly normal existence. She does well in school and mostly keeps to herself. She lives with her father and wonders why they have never visited her grandfather, even though they speak to him every week on the phone. When her grandfather suddenly dies, Ariel and her father must travel to Shadow Grove to settle his affairs. Shadow Grove holds many, many secrets, not the least of which is what really happened to Ariel's mother and why her grandfather left her a powerful amulet before he died.

Becca McAllister has always been different from other girls her age. Never part of the "in crowd", Becca never really fit in anywhere. When her mother dies and her father moves them to the small town of Corydon, Indiana, Becca didn't expect things to change. But things do change when Becca accidentally makes contact with a 160-year-old ghost. As the seductive spirit within Becca's home lures her closer and closer, she learns about her own past and starts to understand that some mistakes are meant to last.

The second installment following Enchanted Secrets. The clock ticks once again...Kendra goes in search of a legendary wand in Salem. Meanwhile, her long, lost cousin, Willow, tries to stop another family curse, by enlisting the help of a dark witch. A woman on her own agenda...

It's been a wild ride, but our heroes have finally made it to Atlanta, where the chaos continues and they find that zombies aren't the only dangers lurking in the big city. The game continues with new players, several dangerous adversaries, and more than one princess that now needs saving....

Tasmyn Vaughn is not having the senior year she expected. Her boyfriend Michael leaves for college, she's being stalked by a suspicious preacher, pursued by the hot new boy at school and blackmailed by her chemistry teacher - who just might be a witch. Tas needs all of her many talents - and a little help from unexpected sources - just to keep her head above water - literally.

As a cold darkness settles upon the world, our heroes search frantically for their friends and family. Meanwhile, two evils come together and try to destroy the child they believe to be the true "Chosen One". Will they succeed and annihilate all of mankind?

It all begins with a dead whale on a Boston shoreline - not in itself an unusual occurrence. But the things that claw their way out of the blubber are very unusual indeed. A cast of giant crabs, evolved over centuries, descends on a small coastal town and, having feasted, make their way to the city using the sewer system. Soon they are swarming around Manhattan, hunted and harried by a SWAT team tasked with ridding the city of the menace...before the menace gets big enough to rid itself of the city.

The fourth Installment of Zombie Games. The road back home proves to be far more dangerous and terrifying then ever. Join Cassie and Company as they face evils that are beyond anything they could have ever imagined and enemies that are virtually...unstoppable.

Drive-in dreams and terror at the show, stories and poetry as well. There are still plenty of spaces for you to pull your car into and the concession stand is serving dishes of fear, cotten cravings, fresh hot barbecued ravens and all sorts of delights. It's a triple show at twilight, bring your best girl and watch as the lights go dim. Drive-In Horrors will take you to the other side and back.

実説 城谷怪談 老若男女皆が楽しめる怪談語りを目指し、落語や講談にも似た独特な語り節、ノスタルジックな世界観に定評がある城谷歩による怪談。 幼い頃から自身でも不思議

実説 城谷怪談 老若男女皆が楽しめる怪談語りを目指し、落語や講談にも似た独特な語り節、ノスタルジックな世界観に定評がある城谷歩による怪談。 幼い頃から自身でも不思議

実説 城谷怪談老若男女皆が楽しめる怪談語りを目指し、落語や講談にも似た独特な語り節、ノスタルジックな世界観に定評がある城谷歩による怪談。幼い頃から自身でも不思議な怪体験を