The Other Side of Sylvia Plath

By Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

While I was crafting the cento poems that became La Belle Ajar, I felt like I was communing with Sylvia Plath. As I wrote in the afterword of my poetry collection. Sylvia Plath once said, “I want someone to mouth me.” When I started this cento project that is what I did. For hours at a time, I could feel Sylvia’s timelessly evocative voice speaking to me in...

4 Spine-Chilling Coming-of-Age Novels by Horror Writers of Color

by Desiree Villena

Horror is haunted by a reputation for whiteness. H.P. Lovecraft’s well-known racism, for instance, still casts a shadow as vast as his outsized influence over the genre. Meanwhile, an enduring stereotype holds that characters of color are inevitably the first to succumb to any slasher or ghoul. 

Horror writers of color have long grappled with this troubling legacy as they produce groundbreaking work that takes the genre in...

So by now you will have worked out that I have a thing for horror, and my favourite kind by far, is what I refer to as classic, comic book horror if you will.

Therefore, when we subscribed to Shudder at the start of Lockdown in the UK (thank YOU Shudder for an amaze-balls dealio) and I realised that they had re-imagined Creepshow, my mind was blown.

I have always loved this type of show – Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, even things like X Files...

The Tao of Horror

By Mark Matthews

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Thanks to Nightworms for letting me blab for a bit about horror on their blog.  

And I’m gonna blab about the Nightworms catchphrase: “where horror is our happy place.”

How the hell can horror be a happy place? Because in a sense, I hate horror—the trauma, the unjust suffering,...

Why I hanker after some vampire lovin’.

I was first introduced to all things fanged back in the late ’80s. Rightly or wrongly, I’m not here to debate parenting issues, my dad was into horror big time, and had a glorious hardback book that included these three beauties – Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, and, most importantly, Salem’s Lot. 

Unless you live under a rock, you should know that Salem’s Lot is Stephen King’s 1975 vampire tome. 

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