Horror

Invaders From Mars (1953): Making Sci-Fi Feel Like a Nightmare

Framing the terrors of childhood, from Stranger Things to Spielberg to the monster matinees of the Atomic Age

May 4 • Alec Worley

Audio of Weird: A Clutch of Christmas Ghost Stories

Snuggle down, drink up and listen in to a read-aloud of ‘Rats’ by M.R. James and ‘Over Before Christmas’ by Alec Worley

Dec 16, 2025 • Alec Worley

We Need To Stop Being Weird About Theme in Stories

What your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it

Nov 5, 2025 • Alec Worley

Lessons from Hannibal Lecter: How to Write a Human Monster

Can horror be scary without the supernatural?

Sep 29, 2025 • Alec Worley

The Best Scene in 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981) Isn't the One You Think

How to write a comedy of terrors

Aug 28, 2025 • Alec Worley

Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)

Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction

Jul 31, 2025 • Alec Worley

Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror

Checking into Daisy Johnson's The Hotel (2024)

Jun 26, 2025 • Alec Worley

28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Predicting a bloody future without stating the bloody obvious. How Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reinvented the reanimated

May 19, 2025 • Alec Worley

How to Build a Haunted House

Constructing chills and building liminal beauty in House (2007), a wordless graphic novel by Josh Simmons

Apr 24, 2025 • Alec Worley

Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)

John W. Campbell's classic novella of Golden Age science fiction and John Carpenter's modern horror masterpiece - both absorb new meanings in the age of…

Mar 26, 2025 • Alec Worley

Cronos (1992): Vampires Don't Have to Be Horrible

How Guillermo del Toro subverted the bloodsucking genre

Feb 20, 2025 • Alec Worley

The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma

How the 1989 comic book by James O’Barr expressed real-life tragedy through gothic fantasy and what happened when it met the Hollywood machine

Sep 18, 2024 • Alec Worley

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