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• Friday Night Features: “The First Wave” Short Film

  By Evahalloween on August 29, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  From the time George Romero kicked off the modern era of zombie films with Night of the Living Dead to our recent resurgence of reanimated brain eaters, the zombie has changed little as a horror trope; a shambling nightmare bent on destruction, not so… Read More ›

• In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice”

  By Evahalloween on August 25, 2014 • ( 11 )

  

  In 1835, the Southern Literary Messenger published a short story so shocking, so graphic and ghastly, that outraged letters poured into the office of editor Thomas W. White. Written by a relatively unknown Edgar Allan Poe, the story, Berenice, tells of Egaeus, a young man of family and… Read More ›

• Silent Sundays: The Body in the Library (1942)

  By Evahalloween on August 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Cover art by Rein van Looij for the Dutch edition of Agatha Christie’s 1942 The Body in the Library.