Andrews, author of the 1979 horror bestseller Flowers in the Attic died in 1986. Yet, she has written dozens and dozens of books since she started pushing up daisies. How? If we monsters told you our secret, we’d have to kill you. . . . . too.
It’s baa-aack. (And boy are we excited.) First published in 1923, issues of the Weird Tales magazine have appeared only sporadically since its original run ended in 1954. And yet, like a monstrous beast that cannot be taken down, Weird Tales has returned from (seemingly) certain death yet again. Self…
On October 7, 1849, the soul of Edgar Allan Poe left this world forever. (We like to believe he went on to a better place, like the Bermuda Triangle.) But the spirit of Poe’s works have lived on. Today, 163 years later on the anniversary of his death, he is…
On an eerily foreboding night in 1999 (at least that’s how we imagine it), celebrated horror author Stephen King was struck from behind by a minivan. The official story supposes that the woman driving the van was distracted by an unruly dog in the backseat. We don’t know if the…
You humans may have heard the undead are cold. Not cold-hearted, necessarily – though we are often that too. No, we are cold. Literally. Nasty side effect of lack of blood flow. For that reason, we have migrated South over the years, to places of culture and mystery that can…
Steve Unger is a world traveler, accomplished author, and historian of Dracula – both the fictional character and the historical figure on which the legend is based. His book, “In the Footsteps of Dracula,” is a travel guide and photo memoir chronicling the author’s journeys in England and Romania to…
. 2nd Edition. Steven P. Unger. New York: World Audience, Inc., 2010. 273 pages. So…it’s a vampire book? Close, it’s a book about a vampire book. Scratch that – a book about the vampire book. Twilight can suck it. Pun intended. More than just an extensive, and well-informed, evaluation of…
Many types of monsters are sensitive to sunlight. In fact, recent scientific studies have shown that Dracula himself, and all his vampire descendants, carry the gene responsible for severe photodermatosis, the sunlight disease. Alternately, other monsters’ sensitivity was developed over time, from lack of regular light exposure. Many monsters have…
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