It’s October, which means I try to devote each evening to watching a horror film, ranging from classics like Nosferatu to personal favorites like Poltergeist to ones I just never got around to watching like The Omen (the original—it was okay). But what about “non-fiction?” Have you ever had an experience you just can’t explain? A…
Top Eleven YA Horror Novels for Scaredy Cats
Much to the dismay of my high school best friend, I’ve never been one for horror anything. She dragged me along to bad slasher movies at the discount theater or rented Stephen King movies for sleepovers. I was always terrified even if the movie was cheesy and terrible. House of Wax starring Paris Hilton, anyone?…
My First Horror Movie: Friday the 13th
My mom is the queen of inappropriate when it comes to allowing children to watch horror movies and television. On her most recent visit, she waited for me to leave the room so she and the kids could tune into a ghost hunting show. My kids slept with me for the next two nights.
“This is Halloween!”: A History, Part 1
In this special article, Ginnis sought out a historian to reveal some of the secrets behind the history of this great season. Fortunately, she discovered a “Mad Historian” who takes a perverse pleasure in tackling the maddeningly mundane questions that plague so many of us like “How did Halloween come to be?” In Part 1 of this two…
Books That Shaped Me: L.J. Smith’s Night World
There are the YA classics many of us read, such as Newberry Award recognized books like The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, and many more. I vaguely remember these books, but I certainly don’t…
Dynamite Announces New Red Sonja Writer
Gail Simone has been teasing for awhile on her Tumblr about who the new writer will be for Red Sonja now that Simone has stepped down, but with a recent press release from Dynamite, the new Red Sonja writer has been revealed. It’s MARGUERITE BENNETT of DC Bombshells, A-Force, and other great lady-led comics. Essentially, this…
Family and Survival at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
From September 16-20 I had the opportunity to attend the screenings for the four competing feature length animated films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. At first glance the films could not have been more different from one another. There was The Magic Mountain, a Romanian/Polish/French film about a Polish refugee fighting the Russians in…
Review: Harrow County #1-5
Harrow County #1-5 Cullen Bunn (words), Tyler Crook (art & letters), Owen Gieni (“Tales of Harrow County” art for issues 1-4), Tyler Crook (“Tales of Harrow County” art for issue 5) Dark Horse Note: This review may contain spoilers and is based on advanced review copies from Dark Horse. I recently added Cullen Bunn (The…
Fan Expo 2015: First Con Photo Diary
This year local Toronto fan and photographer, Stephanie Austin, attended FanExpo with me and documented our time at the con — her first ever! — in photos. Steph and I met up outside the con, had a quick coffee and then headed in with hardly any game plan — we knew that we wanted to document the…
WWAC Reflects On Wes Craven’s Smart Subversive Horror
Wes Craven died August 30th, at 76. During his long career in film he directed over 20 films and wrote even more, many of them revolutionary. With his first film, The Last House On the Left (1972), he joined the wave of New Horror directors like John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, finding the monstrous in ordinary…
Zine Review: Sawdust Press’ Blood Root: Issue Three
Blood Root: Issue Three Canaries by Haan Lee, Jezinkas by Noel Franklin (Writer and Artist) and CB Webb (Letterer), Dead Rain by Ram V (Writer and Letterer), Kishore Mohan (Artist), and Merryn John (Letterer), Cover Art by Aatmaja Pandya and Interior Cover Art by Shing Yin Khor Sawdust Press Limits are good. Limits are also bad. These are contradictory truths with which…
