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 ›
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In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice”
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 ›
Friday Night Features: “Off Season” Short Film
As summer slowly dies in the northern hemisphere, our thoughts turn today to colder times and places, frozen wastelands with howling winds, ice and snow driving cold past the skin and deep into the marrow. It is in just such a location… Read More ›