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“There’s no question that horror’s thriving, but horror is a beast with many faces.” -Nick Grabowski

by Alex Mcdermott: I had the pleasure to sit down with horror author and now publisher Nick Grabowsky to talk about Black Bed Sheet Books, writing, and the nightmares of Hollywood!!! Alex Mcdermott: You are a well-established author! What inspired [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature Interviews, Interviews

Tattered Souls 2

Exploring the fundamentals that make up both the horror and literary genres, Frank J. Hutton delves into the very core of humanity and fear. Within these eight disturbing tales, we explore what makes the human soul tick, and what makes [...]

Arts and Literature

“…what is strange, unusual, odd and unconventional is beautiful. Life is full of the strange, and in that is beauty.” -Ron Fitzgerald

DarkMedia Interviews Ron Fitzgerald: As the great magician Harry Houdini once said, “Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can’t understand it.”  But more than that, Houdini knew, from start to finish, the allure of magic [...]

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When Hell Cometh… Run For Your Life: An Interview With Author Todd Card

by Alex Mcdermott: What happens when the walls between the living and the dead break down? What would you do when the worst possible scenario you can imagine is not as bad as the nightmare you are living? Todd Card [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature Interviews, Interviews

Enter at Your Own Risk: Old Masters, New Voices (A Review)

by Alex Mcdermott: Every Halloween produces a slew of anthologies and this season is no different. On FaceBook and Twitter, I’ve seen zombies, bloody knifes, mutilated corpses, more zombies, demonic leering creatures, and more zombies drift by. Most don’t catch [...]

Arts and Literature

Ghosts, Ghouls, and things that go bump in the night…

by Alex Mcdermott: Gothic horror was a staple of the 1800’s and early 1900’s with everything from short stories and poetry to full-length novels. Master storytellers like Lovecraft, Poe, Maupassant, and Stoker haunted the literary world. Writers like Yeats even [...]

Arts and Literature, Arts and Literature Interviews, Interviews
THE BOOK DIES SCREAMING!

THE BOOK DIES SCREAMING!

by Richard Jay Parker: I’ve noticed that a large percentage of online pieces about books and technology frequently use the phrase ‘Death Of The Book.’  It was probably quite attention-grabbing a couple of years ago but now it seems to have lost its [...]

Arts and Literature

Willy

by Alex Mcdermott: As any of my regular readers know, gore and violence are not my thing. Most horror today, however, is just an excuse for torture, graphic violence, and bloodshed. Every now and then though, an author throws out [...]

Arts and Literature

“Our Horror imagery is purely aesthetic since all our lyrics are metaphors in a way. So it’s never been about the cannibal itself, but what the cannibal stands for.” -Rusty Eye

DarkMedia Interviews Rusty Eye: Rusty Eye is one of those bands characterized with the ability to persevere through time, and their aim from the outset was to summon a cohesive and original style of Heavy Metal; their most recent album [...]

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