My Crown I Gave Up for You
You know that it could have been you there on the throne. Merlin sighed and looked at the window. Halfway through the coronation, he had known something infernal had entered the courtyard. The proceedings had…
Tag: Horror & Supernatural
Foolish Fantasy Heroes in Lord of the Rings and Army of Darkness
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies have been compared to all kinds of other films, particularly other epic projects like David Lean’s historical epics or the action-packed adventure movie Braveheart. However, one often underdiscussed…
Speculative Fiction Author Interview: Storm Humbert
Storm Humbert was born in Fayette, Ohio—which his website observes is “literally a one stoplight town.” Since then, he has earned an MFA from Temple University, taught (writing, rhetoric, and composition) at Temple and Sienna…
Hope Bolinger Interview: Fantasy, Superheroes and Everything Else
How many books Hope Bolinger has written is hard to say. She reports that she’s written books in anywhere from five to 45 days. As of this writing, her website states that “twenty-six of her…
Ruin of Souls
Never, ever turn your back on the dark, they had charged him. These words sounded again in his ears, even now, after so many months of solitude. His parents had drummed this message into the…
Day of Wrath: Sweeney Todd and the Search for Salvation
I have some Catholic reflections on the haunting use of the traditional Latin requiem chant Dies Irae in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", the 1979 musical by Stephen Sondheim, which was turned…
The Question of Faith: The Story of The Exorcist
In an era when every Marvel superhero movie is marketed as an event, and movies that gross $300,000,000 lose money, it may be difficult to believe that there was a time when certain movies really…
Masque of the Red Death – Chapter 7: Rouge Sunset
Nico and Erik found Francesca and Gino waiting for them at the wall. They quickly told the couple about the little girl and the old man still in the village, and the four set out…
Masque of the Red Death – Chapter 6: Burgundy Masquerade
“So, do you have an idea on how to get the three of us out in one piece?” asked Erik as he helped Nico into his pirate costume. “Not really, the biggest problem is that…