by Raven Kross: Yes, I have finally decided to do a personal blog about my VERY FAVORITE horror movies. Figured I might as well, since goodness knows I have blogged enough about movies I don’t like. So, here they are. [...]
Just around the corner, on February 13th and 14th, Vamplit Publishing is hosting the “Bloody Hearts Blog Hop”, a Valentine’s Day gift — in appreciation for all their readers and followers. This is the first year for the event, and will [...]
The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. A substantially revised and expanded edition was published in April 1891. For the new edition, Wilde revised the content of the novel’s existing chapters, [...]
The Body Snatcher (1884) is a fictional short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in the Pall Mall Christmas “Extra”, in December 1884, the story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the Burke and Hare murders. EVERY [...]
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927 and revised in 1933-1934. It was first published in 1927 in the one-shot [...]
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry [...]
“Carmilla” is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. “Carmilla” predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty five [...]
The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avator and its seal — the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then [...]
Attention authors and aspiring authors! DarkMedia is now accepting short stories and poetry for publication on DarkMedia.com. As a rapidly growing resource for all things Dark, we would like to extend our involvement in the literary community by supporting and [...]