FIVE TERRIFYING F. MARION CRAWFORD STORIES

Born in Tuscany in 1854, Francis Marion Crawford had dual Italian and American citizenship. He became a prominent novelist, many of the romance variety, as well as an essayist, historian and short story writer. It’s his horror stories which we are interested in looking at here today. He first came to my notice while I […]

SEVEN RAY CLULEY HORROR STORIES

Ray Cluley is a horror/speculative fiction writer from Wales who has won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction (“Shark! Shark’) and has had both a novella (“Water For Drowning”) and a short story collection (Probably Monsters) short listed for major awards as well. He’s also had several of his stories appear in Best Of […]

WALTER DE LA MARE ARTICLE

Born in Kent England in 1873, Walter de la Mare worked in The London Office of the Standard Oil company, but it was his poetry and fiction writing for which he is still remembered today. His works have been favorably cited by such titans of the genre as H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell and Reggie Oliver. […]

THE WINNER OF THE FAVORITE SCARY GHOST FILM POLL

I posted a poll here at the site at the end of April to find Your Favorite Scary Ghost Film ( https://horrordelve.com/2022/04/30/whats-your-favorite-scary-ghost-film/ ). I started off with several which came to mind and then added in some more movies which were suggested by others. We ended up with nineteen films in all and we now […]

MATT COWAN’S HORROR DELVE IN NIGHTMARE ABBEY MAGAZINE

I’m excited to announce that I (Matt Cowan) will be writing a regular column for a new horror publication called NIGHTMARE ABBEY, edited by Tom English and published by Dead Letter Press. My column will be titled MATT COWAN’S HORROR DELVE. I’ll be free to write about any horror-related subject which catches my fancy, but […]

TERROR TALES OF THE OCEAN REVIEW

I love horror stories which are set on or near the sea. I likewise love the Terror Tales series of anthologies which are edited by Paul Finch. So, it should come as no surprise I really loved Terror Tales of the Ocean published in 2015 by Gray Friar Press. This anthology contains thirteen tales of […]

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SCARY GHOST FILM?

My favorite horror films have always been ones which feature ghosts as their primary focus. I’m curious which of these stand out to all of you out there, so I’m posting a poll. I’ll list several which I can think of but you can nominate others in the comments if you like (no comedies for […]

BRIAN LUMLEY WEIRD TALES

Brian Lumley is a British horror writer whose appreciation for the works of H. P. Lovecraft’s led him to craft his own take on the mythos. Early on, several of these stories were published in anthologies edited by Lovecraft’s friend and greatest proponent August Derelth. Lumley would go on to produce an expansive list of […]

BLOODY BRITAIN BY ANNA TABORSKA REVIEW

Last February I looked at ten short stories by Anna Taborska (https://horrordelve.com/2021/02/23/ten-terrifying-tales-of-anna-taborska/), some of them from her 2020 Bram Stoker Award nominated collection Bloody Britain. I enjoyed those stories so much I decided to read and review that book in its entirety. Reading through these stories, it’s easy to see why the collection was nominated […]

FIFTEEN TERRIFYING TALES BY THOMAS LIGOTTI

A few years back I reviewed the excellent Thomas Ligotti collection Grimscribe (https://horrordelve.com/2017/04/16/grimscribe-by-thomas-ligotti-review/) Since then I’ve read several more of his stories which we’ll take a look at here today. Ligotti is without a doubt one of the all-time greats. THE STORIES: 1. “The Frolic” (1982) – A prison psychologist abruptly tells his wife he […]