MORE GUY DE MAUPASSANT MACABRE TALES

A few years back I took a look at six short horror stories by legendary French author Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1892). That post is available by clicking this link: https://horrordelve.com/2014/06/05/guy-de-maupassant/ . Since it’s been awhile, I decided it was high time to return to more works by him. The Stories: 1. “The Hand” […]

IT WILL JUST BE US BY JO KAPLAN REVIEW

It Will Just Be Us, a horror novel by Jo Kaplan (who has also published stories and novels under her maiden name of Joanna Parypinski), presents us with a chilling, supernatural mystery which also brings light to the family dynamics of those who live inside the haunted manor. The story of Wakefield Manor, a sprawling […]

13 QUESTIONS WITH MARC DAMIAN LAWLER

Hailing from the U.K., Marc Damian Lawler is a writer, an editor, an R. Chetwynd Hayes enthusiast and more. I first discovered him when Jim Moon cited an anthology Marc edited titled Before You Blow Out The Candle on his Hypnogoria podcast ( https://hypnogoria.libsyn.com/hypnogoria-136-before-you-out-the-candle ). Having enjoyed a story from it that Jim read during […]

HALLOWEEN SUGGESTED READING LIST VIII (2020)

The Halloween tradition continues! What follows is Horror Delve’s Eighth Annual Suggested Reading List for Halloween. Not all of these stories (listed by their publication date) take place on Halloween, but each evokes the proper feel for the season. Happy Reading and Happy Halloween! The List: 1. “Apparition” or “A Ghost” by Guy de Maupassant […]

COMING THIS OCTOBER…

This October, Horror Delve will usher forth its eighth annual Halloween Suggested Reading List full of spooky tales guaranteed to evoke the proper spine-chilling feels for the season. The publication dates from this list of ten stories will range from the 1890’s to this year. Another Horror Delve Halloween tradition will continue in the form […]

RAMSEY CAMPBELL SHORT STORIES LIST VI

I love reading anything by Ramsey Campbell – be it in long form or short – as a result his work gets covered here a lot. This being the case, I’ve run out of unique titles for the articles where I recount a bunch of his short stories, so from here on I’ll just be […]

TWO MORE EXCELLENT, FREE AUDIO HORROR STORIES

Every now and then I like to share links to some of my favorite episodes of the podcasts to which I regularly listen. Here are a couple which dropped this past week which I felt were outstanding. Pseudopod #719: “Cordona’s Skull by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1950): This classic story is about a down-on-his-luck stage magician […]

Terror Tales of Cornwall Review

I’ve often before mentioned my love for the Terror Tale series of horror anthologies edited by Paul Finch. I’ve already posted reviews of three other volumes here – each focusing on a different part of the U.K. – Terror Tales of the Seaside ( https://horrordelve.com/2018/05/07/terror-tales-of-the-seaside-review/ ), Terror Tales of the Lake District ( https://horrordelve.com/2019/04/08/terror-tales-of-the-lake-district-anthology-review/ ), […]

BLACK INFINITY #6: INSIDIOUS INSECTS

Black Infinity issue #6 is now out and available for purchase under $10. This one is especially exciting for me because I make two appearances in it. There’s a new installment of my retro-movie review column Matt Cowan’s Threat Watch – this one focusing on films involving insects or spiders or other such scuttling things, […]

BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE BY RALPH ADAMS CRAM

I recently read a post by fellow horror blogger Jay Rothermel ( https://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/search?q=Ralph+Adams+cram ) where he looked at a couple stories by Ralph Adams Cram, and it got me thinking about my own love of Cram’s stories. Several years back I posted about the stories Cram included in his collection Black Spirits and White back […]