Tag Archives: horror

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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Dan Simmons – Song of Kali (1985) Review

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Set in the Indian city Kolkata, which used to be named Calcutta but the book was written before the name change in 2001 so the name Calcutta is used throughout, and anyway the Kolkata of this book isn’t really … Continue reading →

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Vampire’s Kiss (1988) Review

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Jeroen Admiraal

The movie that launched a million memes. There are compilation videos to be found of crazy moments of Nicholas Cage acting, and chances are that at least a couple of those scenes come from this movie. So, what is it … Continue reading →

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Critters (1986) & Critters 2 (1988) Review

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Jeroen Admiraal

5.5/10 There was this amazing time in the late 1980s when a whole load of alien invasion films came out – but it was crazy, weird aliens or little monsters. I guess the alien visitor theme started anew with E.T. … Continue reading →

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Mandy (2018) Review

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

Mandy is a pretty strange film, even for the standards of Nicholas Cage. So, a quick introduction of the story: Cage, a lumberjack, lives in the woods with his wife Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), but then Mandy is kidnapped by an … Continue reading →

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The Purge. The first three movies (2013-’16).

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

The Purge (2013) So it all starts with this slasher horror movie. A scientist on the TV says how we are all violent creatures and the Purge is a therapeutic exercise. I immediately started thinking about Roman amphitheatres and shooter … Continue reading →

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Peter Watts – Blindsight (2006) Review

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 Time for a reread of Peter Watts’ Blindsight. Ever since I discovered this novel a few years ago and rushed through it at a feverish pace within hours, I’ve had a fascination for it. Dense, mind-boggling, cutting-edge, horrifyingly bleak, … Continue reading →

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Annihilation (2018) Review

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 The story around Annihilation (2018) is just as interesting as the film itself. It will probably go down in history as not only a cult classic for science fiction and horror fans, but it is also part of the … Continue reading →

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