HORROR AND FANTASY WRITER
(Editor’s note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of 2024, using Amazon Kindle release dates.) My second cryptid horror fiction list features the Top 10 plus 14 honorable mentions. The list includes the latest D.A. Roberts novel in the No. 1 spot plus works by many familiar... Continue Reading →
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due followed up its June win for best novel at the Bram Stoker Awards by winning the Novel category at the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards on July 13. Billed as "a haunting work of historical fiction," The Reformatory is a novel that pieced together the life of a relative that Due's... Continue Reading →
Rants From The Black Lodge Podcast released the YouTube video version of its 2023 sixth anniversary show titled "Reign in Blood: A Carrie Retrospective" on July 1. Host Brandon A. Lane and his sidekick Fat Tony take an irreverent but substantive deep dive into the 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel. Hopefully, the... Continue Reading →
Fresh off wins at the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards for their novels, Tananarive Due and Christa Carmen received nominations for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards, which were announced June 7. The Reformatory by Due and The Daughters of Block Island by Carmen are two of the six books nominated in the Novel category for the... Continue Reading →
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due won the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel during a June 1 ceremony at StokerCon 2024 in San Diego, California. It was the first win for Due whose "Rumpus Room" was also nominated in the Long Fiction category. Her novels My Soul to Keep and The... Continue Reading →
Two of my long-time favorite authors plus a new favorite are releasing horror fiction books in October. JOHN EVERSON Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Everson returns with his 15th novel, The Bloodstained Doll. The book is set for release October 8 from Flame Tree Press and is billed as a modern giallo in the style... Continue Reading →
(Editor's note: Cryptid Quarterly is a feature where I highlight cryptid horror fiction from each quarter of 2024, using Amazon Kindle release dates.) I love Sasquatch and enjoy reading cryptid horror fiction. I even write a column for HorrorAddicts.net called The Bigfoot Files. I also compile The MalevolentDark.com Horror Fiction Top 25 chart, where I... Continue Reading →
Brinke Stevens started her Scream Queen legacy in 1982 as Linda in the cult slasher The Slumber Party Massacre. Scream Queen Brinke Stevens in 1982's The Slumber Party Massacre. Forty-two years later, Stevens says her scream in that film is still her best. She certainly delivers one of the all-time great shrieks of terror as... Continue Reading →
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies, collections, and zines.) "Laugh with Jolly Jack" by Stephanie Ellis is a tale of machines and madness inside a dilapidated penny arcade inherited by a henpecked husband. The machines may be cursed, so play at your own risk. Released April... Continue Reading →
FrankenCon 2024 is hosting the debut screening of the indie horror film Solitude on Friday, May 10, at 5 p.m. at the Hilton Knoxville Airport in Alcoa, Tennessee. The showing is free for anyone with a ticket to the third annual convention. Mick Strawn is excited for the public to see Solitude, a movie he co-directed with... Continue Reading →
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