Bobb Cotter I recently learned that author Bobb Cotter passed away on Saturday, February 8, 2020. According to his obituary, Bobb was a lifelong comic book collector and a horror and sci-fi movie fan. These interests are evident in the eight books (affiliate link) he’s published with McFarland Publishing. Being a lifelong horror fan myself, […]
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Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers – Matthew Edwards As a regular reader of horror reference books, there is clearly a wide range of themes, approaches and overall quality. Some books are merely lists, while others are in-depth biographies or deep film-by-film studies. Some wade in the pool of psycho-babble and find meaning where
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Book Review: Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between The latest book from Gary A. Smith and McFarland is “Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between”. (affiliate link) For the casual horror fan, this might force the question: isn’t that oddly specific? Couldn’t we just have
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Review: Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era Gavin’s Review: Vampira and her Daughters Having written on all things horror for well over a decade now, and being a lifelong horror fan another decade or so before that, there comes a time every so often where you
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Review: Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others Gavin’s Review of Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic “Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others”, (affiliate link)is the perfect primer for those who are interested in horror (whether it be movies,
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The Turn to Gruesomeness In his new book, Jon Towlson‘s claim is that in the era of DVD and Blu-ray, we can re-examine the classic horror films of the 1930s (specifically the “golden age” of 1931-1936) and find that if it weren’t for the censors, we would see some of the most “gruesome” horror films
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Francesco Borseti’s It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers Francesco Borseti’s is the best horror reference book of 2016. There is no question about it. If the folks behind the Rondo Awards read this, don’t even bother to have a vote because we already have a winner. What Borseti has done is
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Pola Negri: Temptress of Silent Hollywood Book Review In “Pola Negri: Temptress of Silent Hollywood”, out now from McFarland Press, author Sergio Delgado has pieced together an impressive piece of scholarship. What makes this book so impressive? First and foremost, Delgado spends almost as much time tearing down myths and legends as he does building
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Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s Book Review The 1980s were an unusual decade. The 50s were the simple “good old days”. The 60s had political upheaval. The 70s seem to be completely forgotten. And then the 80s… Reaganomics, and a strange mix of New Wave music and cult movies. More pop culture today
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Little Horrors: How Cinema’s Evil Children Play on Our Guilt Book Review As much as I am ashamed to admit it, after being knee-deep in horror for over two decades, I never considered “evil children” to be a subgenre in the same way that the slasher, found footage or exorcism is. T. S. Kord’s (out
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