The Music on the Hill is a short story written by Saki, which is Hector Hugh Munro‘s nom de plume. The author wrote several stories that share a morbid and grotesque atmosphere and among which we can find the story we’re tackling today thanks to ABEditore and their collection, Micromondi. The Music on the HillRead More →
The Temptation of Harringay is a short story by Herbert George Wells published for the first time in the St. James Gazette and later in the collection The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents. We’ve been able to read it thanks to what you’ll certainly have guessed is one of our favourite publishers: ABEditore andRead More →
Superstition is a horror movie directed by James Roberson in 1982 set in an old house owned by the local parish. A string of weird killings keeps taking place between its walls, leading Reverend Thompson to investigate. Superstition – Plot A building in the county of Black Pond has become a theatre ofRead More →
A remake by Patrick Lussier of 1981’s My Bloody Valentine, My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) tries to experiment with what was then a new cinematographic technology and its use in the slasher genre. We take a look at the film for our Steps in The Dark collection and try to seeRead More →
My Bloody Valentine, directed by George Mihalka, is a slasher genre movie set on the day of the popular celebration of love that is Valentine’s Day. That is why we chose today to talk about it for our Steps in The Dark collection, even though, as we already said, it isRead More →
Chicago is a divided city, the South Side is mostly comprised of families of colour while the rest of the city belongs to white people. We’re in the 1950s and this is Lovecraft Country, a new TV show under the HBO brand. Plot Atticus Freeman returns to his old Chicago andRead More →
A fairly recent movie, released just in 2015, Krampus is a horror-fantasy film that takes inspiration from the popular creature known as Krampus. This is, in fact, a very interesting character that can make for an ideal starting point for a good story. Krampus – Plot After an extreme confrontationRead More →
On the 13th of September 2005, the first episode of Supernatural aired in the US. This new show wanted to bring the horror genre to mainstream television and in doing so faced a challenge that many before had lost. Two years later, the show started airing in Italy too andRead More →
We’re back to talk about creatures that lurk in the night once again for our collection Steps in The Dark. Today we’re taking things back to Italy under the direction of Mario Bava. The film we’ll be looking into is Black Sunday, released in 1960. The setting, however, is Moldova,Read More →
Bats and old blackened wood, a motorcycle: Victoria McQueen returns with her bridge of thought in the second season of Nos4a2, aired on Amazon Prime Video. Plot It’s been eight years since Charlie Manx’s defeat. Victoria has rebuilt a life there, in Colorado, with Lou and her son BruceRead More →
Of all the vampire stories in existence, the most famous is definitely that of Dracula. Even though the character has been included in many different retellings, it is at the hands of Bram Stoker that its most famous version comes to life. So how could we not take a look atRead More →
From the classic atmospheres of the 1950s in the United States, a new series by Netflix peeps out: Ratched, based on the famous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Plot It was 1947 when nurse Mildred Ratched arrived at the mental hospital run by Dr. Hanover. She is hiredRead More →
The Haunting of Bly Manor is the second story in the horror anthology by Netflix that also includes Hill House and has been collected in its entirety under the title The Haunting. Plot After the tragic death of a previous au pair, Henry Wingrave hires a young American woman as aRead More →
October is the month of falling leaves, the period in which life gives way to death, everything stops and then changes in the infinite circle of the seasons, to culminate with the most mystical festivity of the year: Halloween. So what better way to celebrate Samhain’s night than with theRead More →
This month too we are poised and ready to kick off our monthly writing challenge again: The Edge of The Page. We can’t wait to share with all our readers the stories that we received over the month of September and that followed the Halloween theme, but in the meantimeRead More →
Released only a couple of months ago, Peninsula promises to expand the world created in Train to Busan and, following it, has to face very high expectations for a movie that’s been almost four years in the making. Plot Right after the zombie epidemic, an ex-soldier (played by Gang Dong-won) and his team look forRead More →
Train to Busan is the second movie of the saga in chronological order, but the first to be released in movies on a large scale and the one that most contributed, with its success, to the distribution of its prequel and the creation of its sequel. Plot During a tripRead More →
Right from its release, Train to Busan has gained fame and recognition that were fully deserved. It’s cemented itself almost immediately as one of the best movies of the horror renaissance of the last few years and brought with it the possibility of expanding its narrative universe with two more works, one thatRead More →
Hey, ghouls! Sometimes it’s hard to be a famous Hollywood ghoul, especially if you are a creature from the Black Lagoon! heyclodiaComic artist based in Rome. When I’m not drawing, I’m probably thinking about black holes and String Theory. Or maybe Shrek.Read More →
First released in 1922, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is definitely one of the titles that paved the way for the wider horror cinematic genre. There was no way, then, for it not to be the first movie in our new segment: Steps in the Dark. Nosferatu: A Symphony ofRead More →
The Edge of The Page is the new Vampire’s Tears initiative that aims to engage our most courageous and creative readers. Do you enjoy creating new characters and settings? Do you spend hours writing page after page of stories that come from your imagination and that you’d love to shareRead More →
We’re taking another step in our vampirical journey, this time the protagonist is The Singular Death of Morton by Algernon Henry Blackwood. For this segment, ABEditore with their Draculea brings us back to the dawn of the XX century with an author who is famous for his strokes full of mystery. Blackwood,Read More →
A new column is coming on our portal and its name is Steps in the Dark and will be dedicated to horror movies of all time. As we have already done with Memories Forgotten, dedicated to animation we will face a path that will lead us to rediscover old cinematicRead More →
Ken’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne is the first story in the Draculea collection by ABEditore. Published in 1883 in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, it’s a short story – but not that short really – told for the most part in the first person by its own protagonist, and in part by oneRead More →
A few months ago, I found this show on Amazon Prime. NOS4A2 is a horror series that will enchant you with its originality, with the great potential to become something truly unique. Plot Victoria McQueen discovers she has an amazing power: she can find lost things. Onboard her motorcycle, sheRead More →
Still them, the vampires, with a new Netflix series that tries to identify them. Another time, science contrasts the popular belief which segregates these creatures in folklore. Plot Born in a vampires’ family, the teenager Doina rebels to her mother’s rules, refusing the pills that she has to swallow everyRead More →
As always, attracted by all the vampires’ world, particularly Dracula’s world, I couldn’t miss Castlevania, animated series inspired by a video game. Plot of the first season Targoviste, Wallachia, 1475. Lisa from Lupu, Dracula’s wife, is burned at the stake on charges of witchcraft. Dracula arrives too late to saveRead More →
Written in 1872 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla is another of the big classics of vampire literature and the second tale we have chosen for our Lockdown with a Vampire challenge. As for the previous story, for this one too you’ll also find an article in Italian on the BloodyRead More →
The Vampyre by John William Polidori is the first story in our Lockdown with a Vampire challenge. We want to remind our readers that they can find a review of this story in Italian on the Bloody Reader blog too. The Vampyre by Polidori dates back to 1819 and it wouldn’tRead More →
A new story about him, Dracula, and how could I miss it? His world always fascinated me, so it was inevitable to yield to this seductive nocturnal creature. Plot The challenges of a cunning nun seem to lead Dracula against intriguing dangers, but soon he wakes up in a foreignRead More →
What a surprise, when Netflix streamed the first season of this new TV series, V Wars. I was very curious to see again Ian Somerhalder in a new vampires’ telefilm, so I decided to watch it and I was pleasantly impressed. Plot Returned from a trip to the Arctic Circle,Read More →
Hello, peoples of the web! Today’s appointment will be a little different from usual because we’ll be taking what I like to call a serial approach. This is not my first time with such a task although the first time it was more of a path in the life ofRead More →
Hello, darling! A long time is gone since my last book review. I think the reason why could be that after Illyon, it was like I can’t read a lot. I don’t know why. It could be ’cause I did so much work in that blog, but they didn’t valueRead More →
