American novelist John Hawkes is often accused of penning unnecessarily convoluted, pessimistic tales which shamefully hide behind the curtain of postmodernism. Many of these commentators would indubitably cite David Foster Wallace’s distain for what he calls Bret...
Begun on October 22, 1785 and manically written upon a piece of makeshift parchment measuring 12 centimeters by 12 meters (4.7 inches by almost 40 feet), Marquis de Sade crafted 16 microscopic words per square inch over the course of 37 days in order to produce his...
Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial 1991 novel, American Psycho, is a torturous text, not only for the characters involved, but also the reader. Set in Manhattan in 1987 and ending at the offset of the following decade, the narrative follows the daily routine of one...
“You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.” –Avery Allan Ludlow, Senior Jack Ketchum, the nom de plume of Dallas Mayr, is a horror writer. However, his trade is that of the all-too-real...
I often tell my friends that true classic horror films died when Hammer Films made their last film in the late 1970s. Sure, there was a television series in the eighties, but the company ceased to produce films after it’s failed attempt to remake Hitchcock’s 1938...
When fans of horror fiction hear the name Ramsey Campbell, they know that he is one of the most famous British horror writers alive today. Campbell is a writer who has been horrifying fans of novels since the early 1960’s when his first Lovecraft-like collection of...
