At Horror DNA: Access:Horror Shorts Block 3: Dead Darlings
The final block of shorts from this year’s Access:Horror festival. Read the review at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Access:Horror Shorts Block 3: Dead Darlings
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At Horror DNA: Access:Horror Shorts Block 1: Edibles
You can get the reviews for the Edibles shorts block at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Access:Horror Shorts Block 1: Edibles
At Horror DNA: Filth Eaters Review
Ito Romo’s Filth Eaters crosses nearly a millennium in less than 150 pages, moving from vampires in the New World to a catastrophized New York City of 2069. You can read the review at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Filth Eaters Review
At Horror DNA: Ivan Review
A troubled family, an engineering student hired to keep an eye on things, and a piece of technology that probably isn’t going to improve anyone’s situation. Damien Fannon’s Ivan takes familiar horror material in unexpected directions. My review is up at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Ivan Review
At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Adorable Humans
Even the best horror anthologies invite rankings of individual stories and a tolerance for unevenness. What makes the Danish collection Adorable Humans stand out is not that every segment lands equally, but that the collection shares a surprisingly cohesive emotional and thematic heart. Maybe because they share source material. All of the segments are adaptations of Hans … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Adorable Humans
At Horror DNA: Of Beasts
You can read my review at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Of Beasts
From the Eunoia Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #14
(I thought I had reposted these since The Terror Test is no more, but I missed this one.) Test Prep is a series of essays that I occasionally wrote to complement episodes of The Terror Test, a horror podcast. Originally written for Episode 46 on Les Diaboliques (1955) and High Tension (2003). Amour Fou-Frou Until … Continue reading From the Eunoia Archives: The Terror Test: Test Prep #14
At Horror DNA: Scared by the Bible
In his introduction, Brandon Grafius recalls being ten years old and attempting his first cover-to-cover read of the Bible. He found himself not shocked by the dull stretches but by the strange, violent, and uncanny bits never mentioned in Sunday school. That early discovery stayed with him, eventually inspiring his work on a PhD in … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Scared by the Bible
At Horror DNA: Spanned Canyons: The Only Perfect Way for This to End
If anything, Pete Nickerson and Gary Gahan, the duo behind Spanned Canyons, should be proud that they nailed the premise of their new conceptual album. The Only Perfect Way for This to End is a nine-track expedition into icebound hell, echoing Dante Alighieri’s ninth circle, where the damned are trapped in a vast frozen lake. Instead of … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Spanned Canyons: The Only Perfect Way for This to End
