Category Archives: horror

Varney the Vampire; Or, The Feast Of Blood (1847) by James Malcolm Rymer (Review)

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

The thing with Varney the Vampire is that you shouldn’t try to read all of it. It’s too much. You’ll go insane. What I would advice is to simply read chapters until you satisfied. So, what is Varney the Vampire?  … Continue reading →

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Junji Ito – Tomie (2001) Review

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 This may come as a surprise, but I am not an immortal succubus. I do not know their life cycle. I do not know what keeps them up at night (well, actually if you are a succubus… but I … Continue reading →

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B.R. Yeager – Negative Space (2020) Review

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

Now prepare yourself for some disturbing content. B.R. Yeager takes us into the world of emotionally troubled teenagers. Set somewhere in a little town in New England, a bunch of teenagers try to cope with fact that there is a … Continue reading →

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George R.R. Martin – Fevre Dream (1982) Review

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Fevre Dream is a delectable fusion of Stephen King and Mark Twain. Set on the Mississippi in the 1850s, it’s a story of steamboats and vampires and Martin took it up with verve. I give it my full recommendation.  … Continue reading →

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Arthur Machen – The White People and Other Weird Stories (Review)

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

This is a Penguin collection of Arthur Machen’s best short stories. Machen was a Welsh writer of supernatural horror who was active around the late 1890s and early 1990s, and he was a huge influence on other writers such as … Continue reading →

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Stephen King – Bag of Bones (1998) Review

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Stephen King’s Bag of Bones is at its core a haunted house story, and a homage to the classic haunted house novel Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier. But it is more than that. It is the story of … Continue reading →

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John Wyndham – The Kraken Wakes (1953) Review

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Sequel to The Kraken Snoozes, followed by The Kraken Needs a Cup of Coffee and The Kraken Defrosts His Car. Ok, enough of that. This is an alien invasion story, very much in the tradition of H.G. Wells’ War … Continue reading →

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Two Gothic Horrors: Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1894) & Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872)

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan (1894) This novella is one of the foundational texts of the modern fantasy horror genre and weird literature. It influenced and has been praised by many authors, from Bram Stoker to Lovecraft to … Continue reading →

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Clark Ashton Smith – The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies (Review)

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Clark Ashton Smith was once one of the Big Three authors of fantasy and horror fiction at the Weird Tales magazine, alongside H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. And while Lovecraft and Howard and their works are still remembered … Continue reading →

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Bram Stoker – Dracula (1897) Review

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 From the very first chapter, Stoker lays on the atmosphere thick. It was a dark and stormy night, when Jonathan Harker made his way east to Dracula’s castle in Transylvania. Every sign along the road tells him that he … Continue reading →

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