NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM
The spirit of WEIRD TALES illuminates this slim collection of stories by Joseph Payne Brennan
SKINAMARINK
A superbly evocative and unnerving horror-fest that’s also boring as shit
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
GHOSTWATCH
Purportedly the most controversial telefilm ever broadcast by the BBC, a mock documentary about ghosts that aired on Halloween night, 1992
Peter Straub: 1943-2022
If you’re a reader of horror fiction the chances are better-than-average that you’re at least partially familiar with the writings of Peter Straub
THE STORY OF REBECCA
This featurette from 1964 can lay claim to being the first-ever cinematic transposition of Jan Potocki’s THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA
THE SHADOW AND OTHER STRANGE TALES
A short single author anthology that appears to have been aimed at children
ASH WEDNESDAY
A strange and eerie tale set in a sleepy town besieged by the spirits of everyone who ever died there
THE SURVIVOR
A novel that directly foreshadows both the FINAL DESTINATION franchise and THE SIXTH SENSE
THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER
A most eccentric ghost story from the late Raoul Ruiz (1941-2011)