
Thinking of Getting Away From It All?
Holidays in horror fiction seldom end well for the traveler, despite the temptation to get away from it all. Find out more in my article.

The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell
Book name: The Nameless Author: Ramsey Campbell Publisher: Fontana Format: print Genre: Horror Publication Date: 1981 Rating: 4/5 I'm...

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson unites horror with science fiction as successfully as the Alien franchise did on the big screen.

Entire Unto Itself: The Island in Horror Fiction
Islands are such mysterious and isolated places, and help is so far away when trouble strikes, it is no surprise that they have been

The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
What makes John Wyndham's 'The Kraken Wakes' one of the horror genre's first postmodern novels?

Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber wrote science fiction, horror and fantasy. He's even credited with having coined the term 'sword and sorcery'. He won a Hugo...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
I love Edgar Allan Poe, and one of my favourite works is his murder mystery story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. It has been claimed as...

Creativity and Darkness by John C Adams
Creativity is a complex thing, and horror often explores the darkness it can engender in the human soul. The very act of generating a book

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
The 'Cambridge Companion' label is a byword for rigour and quality, so my expectations in purchasing this volume were set very high indeed.

Psycho by Robert Bloch
The title has become so synonymous with the smash-hit movie that it's easy to forget that, before Psycho received the Alfred Hitchcock...