For many people – many of us, anyway – a love for the works of Edgar Allan Poe is practically a rite of passage. At a certain age, young readers with – shall we say – a kind of in-built love for the darker side will almost inevitably find their way to Poe. And, once […]
I’m very glad that filmmakers seem to be returning to aesthetically-pleasing supernatural tales these days, rather than endless found footage or excruciating ordeal horror. You could argue that there’s plenty of space for all the above, of course, and you needn’t stick with just one genre of horror (or any other genre for that matter) […]
By Keri O’Shea Last year, I had my first experience of Lovecraftian theatre at the Abertoir film festival – and let me tell you, it was something of a revelation; not a revelation along the lines of those suffered by Lovecraft’s tortured protagonists, mind, but more of a lesson in how Lovecraft’s tales can jump […]