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Seven Extreme Horror Novels That Could Never be Adapted to Film

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When horror makes an impact on the page, that impact is almost always translated to the screen. And if it doesn’t make it that far, there’s at least an attempt. Film adaptations of horro...

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Why Horror Literature Is Suffering (And How To Try To Save It)

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Print is dead. That’s what everyone says, at least. Hell, Egon Spengler said it way back in Ghostbusters in 1984. The paperback market has almost completely died out and everything has made the...

Laymon’s Terms: Examining the Untapped Cinematic Potential of Richard Laymon

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While slashers dominated the screen in the 1980’s, splatterpunk dominated the page. The movement was about going as far as possible, going to extremes to unnerve and shock the reader. Naturally...

Why Splatterpunk Should Make a Comeback

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Splatterpunk was a term coined in the 1980’s by horror journalist and novelist David J. Schow. It is essentially defined as literary horror with graphically described scenes of gore, horror fic...