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Harry Potter meets the 2016 US presidential campaign: I have to start this book review with an apology. I found it …
Harry Potter meets the 2016 US presidential campaign: I have to start this book review with an apology. I found it …
Genre bingo (or How to Write a Bestselling Book/Hit Movie) : Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, …
I’m not usually a horror fan, so when Erik Therme sent me his new release I had to first …
So…horror. I’m a total wuss when it comes to horror anything, so I do my level best to avoid it. …
What if Harry Potter didn’t know about magic until he went to college? And what if (along with almost everything else to do with dorm life as a freshman) Hogwarts turned out to be more horror story than dark fantasy, and Harry’s fellow students had a tendency to end up as ketchup?
Arsenic poisoning was a common way for Victorians to die. They used it everywhere: in the new, fashionable green wallpaper that Queen Victoria used in Buckingham Palace; in the green dye of dresses; in “Dr Simms Arsenic Complexion Wafers and Medicated Arsenic Soap;” designed to give a woman a rosy complexion; and in a ‘pure’ form which men took to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, death often followed on the heels of such a use of “Victorian Viagra,” but at least those men died happy.
“Doctor, this woman’s kidneys are missing.” We made it through various bits of eerie mayhem—including the alien birth (tastefully shown in silhouette behind a scrim, but I still recognized my daughter as the ‘mother’)—by not meeting the eyes of any other parents.
In most horror, it’s enough that the main characters survive Daddy coming for them with an axe. But in urban fantasy, they catch the ghost who drove Daddy crazy and charge him with income tax evasion, bring hot dish to the ghost’s mama, and maybe end up married to the ghost’s sister.
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. (Psalm 139:12) What’s the difference between dark fantasy and horror …
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