ABERRANT SHADOWS: ST. LOUIS CURIOS

A few years back, my wife and I took a short vacation to St. Louis. While there a few oddities drew my attention. While perusing the offerings of a second hand shop in the Delmar Loop, I began to feel watched. Looking about, I found no living soul behind me. Then my gaze settled on […]

RUDYARD KIPLING MACABRE TALES

Born in Bombay, British India in 1865, Joseph Rudyard Kipling led a very successful life as a writer. He was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, an award for which he remains the youngest recipient ever. He’s best remembered for the various screen adaptations of his works […]

GRIMSCRIBE BY THOMAS LIGOTTI REVIEW

Although I’d heard of Thomas Ligotti before, I never read much by him. I recently was gifted this collection from a friend (thanks again to David T. Wilbanks). I’d planned to only read a handful of the stories but got so hooked I ended up finishing all of them. Born in 1953, Thomas Ligotti is […]

ABERRANT SHADOWS: PARIS CATACOMBS

Aberrant Shadows is a new segment here at Horror Delve where I’ll post my encounters with weird, eerie or bizarre things that have breached our everyday, commonplace world. THE PARIS CATACOMBS: My wife and I traveled to Paris, France last December (2016). While there we toured a section of the catacombs beneath the city. These […]

THE CHOSEN CHILD BY GRAHAM MASTERTON REVIEW

THE CHOSEN CHILD (1997 TOR) was recommended to me by horror and fantasy author David T. Wilbanks. He’s proven in the past to have a good take on the kind of stories I like, so I ordered a copy and promptly dug in. Here are my thoughts: My one complaint has to do with the […]

JULIUS LONG

Julius Long was a lawyer born in Ohio in 1907 who penned a handful of horror and detective tales before his death in 1955. Some of his stories were published in Weird Tales Magazine during the 1930’s. His most popular offering seems to have been “The Pale Man” (1934) which has been regularly reprinted in […]

FOUR BOOKS I’D LOVE TO SEE ON SCREEN

Reading the odds of how some horror and science fiction novels have of being made into feature films or television series got me to thinking of some I’d like to see make the leap from page to screen. 1. NIGHT THIGS by Michael Talbot – Movie – This novel about a mansion in the Adirondack Mountains […]

HOUSE ON THE MOOR BY WILLIE MEIKLE REVIEW

I recently set out in search of something to read by Willie Meikle. I quickly settled on THE HOUSE ON THE MOOR published by DARK REGIONS PRESS (2015). Why? Because it’s a haunted house story, which is my favorite type of fiction. Here are my thoughts. The story begins with John Fraser taking his wife […]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!!

And the winner of Horror Delve’s favorite Sword and Sorcery Movie is…. THE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER CONAN FILMS! Up until about a day ago it had been embroiled in a three way tie with THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY and EXCALIBUR, but I was saved from having to cast a deciding vote when someone came […]

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SWORD AND SORCERY MOVIE?

I like doing polls from time-to-time to gage the preferences of those who check in here to Horror Delve. This time I’m wondering about your favorite Sword and Sorcery movies? I’ve created a list of 23 that came to mind but could be persuaded to add some I may have overlooked if you leave them […]