The Sound of Your Footsteps
by Michael Reyes The bum covered in shit sat ragged and bare-faced at the Crossroads of the World. He called himself Mazda Miata, his broken grin and feral gaze more than enough to keep strangers six feet away, not that there were many people around. The few that walked his territory did so in a… Continue reading The Sound of Your Footsteps
When Chucky Didn’t Do It
How a tabloid witch hunt for a killer dollmovie reveals a pursuit of profit over truth By Steve Stark England 1993 and a horrific murder has shocked and horrified the nation. A pair often-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, have been found to have tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger after abducting him from… Continue reading When Chucky Didn’t Do It
Manson’s First Interview
A Life Through Books Interview By MANSON What is the hardest part of writing your books? Self-doubt. Trying to overcome that nagging inner critic. Nothing ever seems good enough for it, and just when I think I do have something good enough to appease the little beast, it wants me to kill the darling. What… Continue reading Manson’s First Interview
La Madre De Los Dolores
The Futility of Hope by Anthony Perconti First of all, let me get something out in the open immediately. The Hell Bound Kids: Wild in the Streets is not the feel-good hit of the summer. It is a mélange of hardboiled fiction, by way of The Lord of the Flies, The Warriors and Dark City… Continue reading La Madre De Los Dolores
Mary Whitehouse VS Evil Dead
How one low-budget horror film eventually defeated the censors by Steve Stark In 1984, the British establishment were very concerned, not with the fallout from the Falklands conflict, high unemployment rates or the AIDs epidemic. They werevery concerned with the emergence of a batch of horror films on VHS, chief among them being Sam Raimi’s… Continue reading Mary Whitehouse VS Evil Dead
Something To Do With Death: A Review of Coy Hall’s The Hangman Feeds the Jackal
by Anthony Perconti Subtitled A Gothic Western, Coy Hall’s novel The Hangman Feeds the Jackal immediately brings to mind the 1974 classic, Richard Brautigan’s TheHawkline Monster. Both books fall squarely within the Western genre, but where Brautigan amplifies elements of the (weird) gothic, Professor Hall focuses the macabre. One zigs, where the other zags. One… Continue reading Something To Do With Death: A Review of Coy Hall’s The Hangman Feeds the Jackal
