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In what turned out to be one of my most favorite episodes of American Horror Story yet, Tricks and Treats threw down the gauntlet. The episode started with our dear, bloody newlyweds, Leo and Teresa, attempting to hide from Bloody Face. When Teresa cannot pull Leo into a room with her, Bloody Face ends up [...]
We start this season of American Horror Story off with, dare I say, more shocks and intensity than characterized season one. Fans were not disappointed. A newlywed couple, is exploring the Briarcliff asylum, a tuberculosis hospital turned Catholic ran sanitarium for the criminally insane, in its present day decaying condition. The couple, Leo and Teresa, [...]
Sinister is a disturbing movie that piles horror upon horror, with eerie snuff footage and a brutal soundtrack that builds to an ending that, if not shocking, certainly offers no respite for the viewer. In short, it’s one of the best horror films I’ve seen in years. Sinister concerns a writer, Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke), [...]
Question: If you had to label your work, what genre tag would you put on the bulk of it? Horror and dark fiction/art seem to be the two big winners here, in terms of how we would label our work, if we had to label our work. Many of us balk at having to label, [...]
Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? You are now that the team at Doejo have designed this game in order to prepare the masses for a zombie invasion. Once you go to the Zombie Survival Map website, you can share your location or type in your zip code, city or address. Utilizing Google Maps [...]
Now, let’s turn to Face/Off Season 2 champion Rayce Bird, who took top honors with a three-part design that depicted a trio cosmic beings representing light, darkness, and a transitional phase. Rayce was kind enough to answer some of our questions about Face Off and offer advice to the new contestants. Ed Grabianowski for Gothic.net: [...]
In celebration of Universal’s 100th anniversary, Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing on Blu-ray, for the first time ever, digitally restored in high-definition picture and sound, eight of their masterpieces from the horror genre titled, “Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection”. The box set can be found in stores on October 2, 2012, just in [...]
Question: Do you like doing readings and signings? Interestingly, more than three quarters of us like or mostly like doing reading and/or signings. For some of us readings and signings are a crucial way of staying in touch with the people who read our work, an up-close-and-personal method for getting a sense of what the [...]
On Tuesday May 8th, horror emporium Dark Delicacies will be hosting a DVD release event for horror thriller Madison County, with signings and probably some discussion with Daniel Dunn (Producer), Ace Marrero (Kyle), Matt Mercer (Will), Natalie Scheetz (Jenna), Joanna Sotomura (Brooke), Marshall Yates (Man with Knife!) and potentially more. If you are in Southern [...]
With The Raven movie, starring John Cusack, opening this weekend, we thought today might be an appropriate day to post Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem The Raven. This is from a Project Gutenberg archive of an illustrated 1883 edition. Gustave Doré was the illustrator. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, [...]
Hip, edgy horror. Gothic.net is the most visited literary horror site on the net. Gothic.net fiction is so highly respected that stories appearing on the site have received countless Stoker award nominations and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror mentions, and of course been reprinted in many prestigious anthologies by excellent editors. Gothic.net also gives the community active forums with more than 40,000 members, as well as promotional tools such as a topsites and a banner exchange which gives authors and small press publishers extra exposures.