70 Disturbing Vintage Halloween Costumes
Stuff You Should Know has a gallery of seventy unsettling vintage Halloween costumes.
Carol Talks Horror on the CBC
On CBC Radio’s Day 6 with Brent Bambury, the Gutter’s own Carol talks about horror movies directed by women and makes a few Halloween recommendations. (And here’s one of Carol’s favorite promotional pieces she wrote for one of the films for its premiere at the Toronto International Film […]
“Why Lesbian Vampire Movies Are Terrible (But Also Totally Amazing)”
At Autostraddle, Sara Century writes about why Lesbian vampire movies are terrible and totally amazing. “As heterosexual vampire stories had their origin in the fear of female sexuality, displayed clearly in novels like Dracula which consistently robbed its female characters of sexual autonomy throughout the narrative, lesbian vampire […]
“Herodotus’s Lycanthropic Tribe”
Werewolf Week continues at Sententiae Antiquae with “Herodotus’s Lycanthropic Tribe.”
Christopher Lee on Black Magic, Anton LaVey, Ian Fleming and Dracula
Christopher Lee talks about black magic, playing a blasphemous priest in To The Devil A Daughter, Anton LaVey, Ian Fleming and Dracula in a 1975 interview.
Now Cthulhu is Blofeld
The moons have aligned and given me the opportunity to slip two October articles in, which means you get (or are inflicted with) a third installment of the ongoing series Punching Cthulhu in the Face, a look at the many ways H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror has been corrupted […]
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