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Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)
Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction
Jul 31
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Alec Worley
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Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)
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Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
Checking into Daisy Johnson's The Hotel (2024)
Jun 26
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Alec Worley
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Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
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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
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Alec Worley
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28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
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How to Build a Haunted House
Constructing chills and building liminal beauty in House (2007), a wordless graphic novel by Josh Simmons
Apr 24
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Alec Worley
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How to Build a Haunted House
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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
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Alec Worley
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Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
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Vampires Don't Have to Be Horrible
How Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos (1992) subverted the bloodsucking genre
Feb 20
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Alec Worley
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Vampires Don't Have to Be Horrible
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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
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Alec Worley
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The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma
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Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
How Andrew Michael Hurley’s compulsive folk horror novel casts its bleak and atmospheric spell
Aug 20, 2024
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Alec Worley
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Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
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M.R. James and the Craft of Fear
Learn the subtleties of writing terror from a master of the scary ghost story
Mar 14, 2024
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Alec Worley
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M.R. James and the Craft of Fear
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The Horror Masterpiece Everyone Missed
How 'The Rolling Giant', an incredible YouTube short by Kane Pixels, builds tension, embraces the uncanny and gives viewers the virtual creeps
Jan 25, 2024
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Alec Worley
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The Horror Masterpiece Everyone Missed
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Over By Christmas (a short story)
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain - published here for the first time anywhere (30-minute read)
Dec 21, 2023
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Over By Christmas (a short story)
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Beyond the Veil: Q&A with Man o' Ghosts
Multimedia ghost story creator Thom Burgess explains the techniques behind his latest horror project 'Mister Howl', as well as lessons learned piloting…
Sep 25, 2023
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Alec Worley
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Beyond the Veil: Q&A with Man o' Ghosts
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