Tag: horror

It’s early morning and you have dragged yourself to the first train out of the city. Half asleep you barely acknowledge the other passengers around you, all equally

Where horror has moved towards personal threat typified by the unstoppable killing machine who stalks their victims, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees and their descendents who persist in modern

Where there is war, there is suffering. In the late eighties, Tehran lived under a shadow of fear which so permeated the fabric of society that to some

Melanie is special, the smartest and most polite of all the children in class, waiting to be called upon by the teacher she adores so she can impress

Horror is the genre which is always looked down upon by the establishment, derided as being base, lowbrow, sensationalist and consciously unpleasant, yet as with the disguised social

If horror reflects the fears of the time it is made, then the three films which comprise The Purge are a terrible indictment of modern America, the first

In the concluding essay of his collection of sinister and macabre short stories Night Music: Nocturnes 2, John Connolly proposed that the brevity of that form was the

Certain places seem to attract a darkness about them, a darkness which once experienced lives on in memory. One such place is Wychwood House, the former mental asylum

The contrast between the Pleasance Courtyard at the height of the Fringe and the interior of Pleasance One could not be more defined; outside there are crowds, conversation

“If these walls could talk… they wouldn’t need to put on plays.” So says the caretaker at the historic Vaudeville Theatre, an establishment with over a hundred years