by Lucy A. Snyder | Apr 17, 2016 | Columns, Reviews
Welcome to Lovecraft, the first volume in Joe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novel series, focuses on siblings Bode, Tyler, and Kinsey Locke relocating from California to the Keyhouse on the fictional island of Lovecraft, Massachusetts after Tyler’s classmate Sam Lesser murders their father. There’s a lot of really interesting stuff going on in this first collected volume of the series.
by Lucy A. Snyder | Feb 28, 2016 | Columns
My big news this week is that my book While the Black Stars Burn is on the final Bram Stoker Awards Ballot! My fellow category nominees include authors Gary A. Braunbeck and Nicole Cushing. I’m looking forward to StokerCon in May, not just for the awards...
by Wayne Edwards | Feb 19, 2016 | Columns
Obsessed is not the right word. Not quite. But I have been spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about the current incarnation of the X-Files. The first two episodes didn’t do much for me, but then the second two were fantastic. “Mulder and Scully Meet the...
by Wayne Edwards | Feb 5, 2016 | Columns
It is hard to take these (high) temperatures in February in the northeast. 60s? Something’s up. I am not talking about global warming, either. I think it is something else. Aliens? Too easy. Too obvious. Donald Trump? Maybe. Probably not, though. He’s got bigger...
by Wayne Edwards | Feb 1, 2016 | Columns
Back to the jam, brothers and sisters. I had a nice, long break. Lucky there, huh? I hope all you Reader People had some kind of wonderfulness during the holidays and that you are not too blue about the new year. Sure, another one is gone but this is a new one. We...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Dec 28, 2015 | Columns
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is Ransom Riggs’ bestselling young adult horror novel. One of the things I’ve been trying to gauge in my own YA novel is the relative level of gruesomeness/scariness I can portray without it being deemed too much for...
