Gem Wheeler Dec 21, 2016
We celebrate the work of M.R. James, whose eerie ghost stories were made into a festive tradition by the BBC...
A shadow lurking just beyond the edge of the vision. Dusty manuscripts bearing fragments of ancient testimony, conflicting and confounding. The sickening touch of a decayed hand, grasping at us from the darkness. The imagery of the ghost story may differ between cultures, but the sense of creeping dread left by the most effective tales remains universal.
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One name stands out in the grim roster of English purveyors of the form: Montague Rhodes James, an eminent medievalist with a sideline in...
We celebrate the work of M.R. James, whose eerie ghost stories were made into a festive tradition by the BBC...
A shadow lurking just beyond the edge of the vision. Dusty manuscripts bearing fragments of ancient testimony, conflicting and confounding. The sickening touch of a decayed hand, grasping at us from the darkness. The imagery of the ghost story may differ between cultures, but the sense of creeping dread left by the most effective tales remains universal.
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One name stands out in the grim roster of English purveyors of the form: Montague Rhodes James, an eminent medievalist with a sideline in...
- 12/20/2016
- Den of Geek
From Nosferatu to Twilight, gothic films have explored what frightens us – and why we are willing victims of our fear. A few days before Halloween, and as the BFI begins a nationwide season, Michael Newton is seduced by horror, sex and satanism
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
- 10/26/2013
- by Michael Newton
- The Guardian - Film News
Former Punisher and Mist-battler Thomas Jane had a rough ride with the studio bods on his last directorial effort Dark Country. He publicly complained about the final cut and the lack of a theatrical release, but the experience doesn't seem to have burned him too badly, since he's about to head back behind the camera for The Wet House, in which he'll also star.The title refers to an establishment that's kind of the polar opposite of a rehab facility: a wet house is apparently a place where substance abusers and addicts go to die, when their afflictions place them beyond recovery. It's a new one on us, but writer Jack Reher seems confident that it's a thing. The film's story involves a doctor at the facility - presumably Jane's character - enduring a haunting and slowly losing his mind.Reher's screenplay is loosely based on, of all things, a short story by Charles Dickens.
- 2/15/2013
- EmpireOnline
Fango got word from Renegade Arts Entertainment that readers (and listeners) can now purchase the first installment of Doug Bradley’S Spine Chillers. Volume One of the audiobook, subtitled Classic Horror Stories, features the horror veteran lending his voice to tales by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, William F. Harvey and Saki.
The first edition of Spine Chillers, which we last told you about here, contains Harvey’s “The Beast With Five Fingers,” about an evil, murderous, disembodied hand, and his “August Heat,” a frightening tale dwelling on questions of fate; Poe’s classic “The Tell-Tale Heart,” about the maddening guilty conscience of a murderer, that will provide a pounding heart both through your headphones and in your own chest; Lovecraft’s “The Outsider,” about a man all alone in the world and his attempts to make contact; Dickens’ ghost tale “The Signalman,” in which a haunting specter...
The first edition of Spine Chillers, which we last told you about here, contains Harvey’s “The Beast With Five Fingers,” about an evil, murderous, disembodied hand, and his “August Heat,” a frightening tale dwelling on questions of fate; Poe’s classic “The Tell-Tale Heart,” about the maddening guilty conscience of a murderer, that will provide a pounding heart both through your headphones and in your own chest; Lovecraft’s “The Outsider,” about a man all alone in the world and his attempts to make contact; Dickens’ ghost tale “The Signalman,” in which a haunting specter...
- 2/27/2009
- Fangoria
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