If you have ever, EVER, felt like a weirdo, an outsider, the strange one, the outlier or the very square peg in a mainstream round hole, then the Addams Family has likely always felt like your freaky home away from home. It makes sense – here are a group who Continue Reading
Halloween 2022
Graphic novel review: The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
Halloween is a lot of things, scary, dark and horrifying well among them. The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young (I HATE FAIRYLAND) and Jorge Corona (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET) embraces all those tantalising terrific elements, and much more, in a seductively disturbing tale of what Continue Reading
#Halloween book review: Hide by Kiersten White
It’s a truism long observed that humanity is often the biggest monster at any given table. No matter what the threat is or what destructive horror it might bring to bear, it always seems to be people who are the scary ingredients in any terror cocktail, whether it’s battling aliens, Continue Reading
Everything’s scarily, hilariously meta this #Halloween: Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
If there’s one thing that Scooby-Doo! has had going for it as a long-running series all these years, and let’s face it there’s a lot of them, it’s its propensity to not take itself too seriously. After all, you have four teenagers and a Great Dane dog – who can Continue Reading
Book review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
You know that deeply unsettling sense you sometimes get when you’re deep in the forest or bush, or walking past it, where it feels like someone is watching you? It’s a cloyingly unnerving sense that you are not alone, egged on by flashes of movement you swear you see in Continue Reading
Upending the fairytale! BRIAR wonders what might happen if Sleeping Beauty had to save herself?
SNAPSHOTBRIAR [is] a brand new four-issue limited comic book series from Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body, Iron Man, Halt and Catch Fire), rising artist Germán García (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land), and colorist Matheus Lopes (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) that Continue Reading
Is it witch-ful thinking? No, you will gravely (and hilariously) scared when you watch Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular!
The Looney Tunes celebrate Halloween! Daffy and Porky take a dear friend to a final resting place. Witch Hazel chases down an ingredient for her spell. Sylvester finds a suspicious motel, and Bugs meets a mummy. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) HBO Max) Halloween is usually all for really scary stuff. Continue Reading