NOS4A2 is the kind of novel I think people have been waiting for Joe Hill to write.
Blu Gilliand
by Blu Gilliand
04/08/2013 - 2:00pm
When Robert McCammon returned to the publishing scene in 2002 with Speaks the Nightbird, his fans rejoiced. And although McCammon made it clear that historical fiction was what he was happy to focus on, I think we all held out hope that some day he’d return to the kind of straight-up horror he’s so good at.
by Blu Gilliand
04/01/2013 - 3:00pm
My hat’s off to Erik Williams. If I’d had the idea for his new book Bigfoot Crank Stomp, I honestly don’t know if I would have had the guts to write it.
by Blu Gilliand
03/26/2013 - 2:00pm
The tight-knit horror fiction community was left reeling last week by the loss of three gentlemen over a ten-day period; three men who’d served as inspiration, as mentors, as legends, as examples of the best the genre has to offer.
by Blu Gilliand
03/19/2013 - 2:00pm
They say that anthologies and short story collections are a tough sell; it makes sense, then, that you don’t see that many on the shelves in your local big box bookstore (if you still have one in your neighborhood, that is).
by Blu Gilliand
03/11/2013 - 3:00pm
When Eclipse Comics ended the Tapping the Vein series after the fifth volume, it wasn’t because they’d run out of material to adapt – Vein only scratched the surface of the short stories Clive Barker had published under the Books of Blood title.
by Blu Gilliand
03/04/2013 - 5:00pm
Over the past few years, Mark Miller has established a close working relationship with Clive Barker.
by Blu Gilliand
02/26/2013 - 4:00pm
In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I have zero knowledge of the Dead Space video game series. My active gaming life ground mostly to a halt sometime around Halo 2, and although I still throw together the occasional session of Call of Duty or Madden, gaming as an entertainment option has dropped pretty far down my personal list.
by Blu Gilliand
02/19/2013 - 6:00pm
A recent story is USA Today shared the news that Clive Barker is working on an original comic book series for Boom! Studios entitled New Genesis.
by Blu Gilliand
02/11/2013 - 1:00pm
Last week I reviewed The Wicked, a nasty little bit of throwback-style horror from the pen of James Newman. Whenever a book grabs me like The Wicked did – shakes me up and reminds me of why I spend so much time reading this crazy genre – I like to talk to the writer, get inside his or her head and find out what led them to make the choices they made in writing it