I’ve always had a soft spot for that disreputable underbelly to the enlightenment, the gothic tale of terror. This literary form reigned supreme from the last half of the seventeenth to the first half of the eighteenth centuries and were the video nasties of their day generating similar pearl clutching moral panics and righteous outrageContinue reading “Top Five Gothic Horror Novels”
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Ghost Versus Demon!
In late August 1884, two pale and trembling strangers entered the White Lion Inn in the Midlands village of Ivy Church Green. They both sank a pint of ale to steady their clearly frayed nerves, and the landlord and the regulars looked on with interest. What had terrified the two men so? Eventually, one ofContinue reading “Ghost Versus Demon!”
Top 5 Cannibal Zombie Movies from the Golden Age of Gut-munching
In recent decades there have been some fine zombie films, but these mainstream offerings tend to suffer from one fatal flaw: respectability. The zombie films from the golden age (which I’ve taken as being from the late 60s to the early 90s) are different. They are gloriously disreputable, so much so that many were bannedContinue reading “Top 5 Cannibal Zombie Movies from the Golden Age of Gut-munching“
