Reviews at Horror DNA
Books
Fiction
The Year of the Storm: John Mantooth
Moths: Jane Hennigan
The Hunger: Alma Katsu
Ambrosia: Hamelin Bird
The House of Last Resort: Christopher Golden
Blue Sunshine: The Novelization: Kenneth Johnson
Plan 9 from Outer Space: The Novelization: Bret Nelson
Trve Cvlt: Michael Bettendorf
Catherine the Ghost: Kathe Koja
The Gaunt Woman: John Blackburn
Pay the Piper: George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus
Strange Pictures: Uketsu
Beyond the Planet of the Vampires: Ulrich Baer
Anoxia: Miguel Ángel Hernández
Of Beasts: W. Jane Worma
Nonfiction
Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult: Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror FIlm Violence: Ariel Powers-Schaub
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond: Jeremy Dauber
Horror Comics and Religion: Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine: Edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead
Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture: Brandon R. Grafius
Anthologies
Monsters: We’re All a Little Different [Dark Tide Book 5]
A Small Light & Other Stories: Sarah Century
Stories of the Eye
Morbidologies
Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West
In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft: Joe R. Lansdale
Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales from Storied Lands
Movies
Festivals and Shorts
Film Maudit
Zeria (2021)
Agatha (2022)
Razzennest (2022)
Wild Bones (2022)
Film Maudit 2.0: The Shorts: Double Features
Film Maudit 2.0: The Shorts: Creature Feature
Film Maudit 2.0: The Shorts: Birthing Pangs
Film Maudit 2.0 2024: The Shorts: Part One
Film Maudit 2.0 2024: The Shorts: Part Two
Panic Fest
Panic Fest 2024 Short Films: Part One
Panic Fest 2024 Short Films: Part Two
Panic Fest 2024 Long Form Shorts
Keratyna (2023)
Panic Fest 2025: Chainsaws Were Singing
Panic Fest 2025: For God’s Sake Wake Her Up (2025)
Panic Fest 2025 Short Films: Part One
Panic Fest 2025 Short Films: Part Two
Panic Fest 2025 Short Films: Part Three
Panic Fest 2025 Short Films: Part Four
LA Shorts International
“One for the Road” (2024)
FrightFest
Scared Shitless (2024)
Boutique: To Preserve and Collect (2024)
Dog of God (2025)
Malpertuis (1971)
Raindance UK
Dui Shaw (2025)
Access:Horror
Shorts Block One: From Womb to Tomb (2025)
Shorts Block Two: Flesh of My Flesh (2025)
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Shorts Block: Head Trip (2025)
Shorts Block: Death Grip (2025)
Shorts Block: Nightmare Fuel (2025)
Features
Moonchild (1994)
Black Lodge (2022)
Blood Relatives (2022)
Dark Glasses (2022)
Abruptio (2023)
Body Odyssey (2023)
Candy Land (2023)
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)
King on Screen (2023)
Moon Garden (2023)
The Primevals (2023)
She Is Conann (2023)
The Becomers (2024)
Booger (2024)
Devils Stay (2024)
Get Away (2024)
In a Violent Nature (2024)
Oddity (2024)
Red Rooms (2024)
Starve Acre (2024)
Ash (2025)
MUSIC
Spanned Canyons: The Only Perfect Way for This to End
Lost in Arkham and Test Prep
Test Prep was a series of essays I wrote to complement The Terror Test, a podcast on horror movies and entertainment.
The Terror Test: Test Prep #1 (Phantasm and Phantasm II)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #2 (Found Sound Horror)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #3 (Psycho and Frenzy)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #4 (The Purge)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #5 (Existential Horror)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #6 (The Fireman, Baskin, and Southbound)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #7 (Toilet Ghosts)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #8 (Friday the 13th)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #9 (The Reef)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #10 (Mystics in Bali)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #11 (I Saw the Devil)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #12 (Cat in the Brain and 8 1/2)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #13 (Silent Horror with Murray Leeder)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #14 (French Horror)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #15 (The Brood)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #16 (Don’t Look Now and Macbeth)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #17 (Eraserhead)
The Terror Test: Test Prep #18 (Turn-of-the-Century Zombies)
My appearances:
Episode 108: Sleepaway Camp (1983) and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
Episode 2(?): Blair Witch (1999)
Other Writing About Horror:
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