Today I’m starting my journal entries for On Writing Horror, A Handbook by The Horror Writer’s Association. The book contains about 50 individual articles, divided among 8 different sections, so I’m going to match my entries up to the sections rather than address the articles …

Screenwriter John August has an interesting little post on cell phones in the movies. It includes a great little montage of movie clips showing phones not working, getting smashed, etc. Why on earth do I care? Brian Keene has this very problem in Urban Gothic. In an era where it seems everyone has a …

Brian Keene’s recently released Urban Gothic brought to mind the myth of the Minotaur. A group of teens is thrown into a labyrinthine house whose twists and turns extend far below the ground in a neglected neighborhood. Their first encounter is with a hulking, deformed creature whose strength seems …