For many, Christmas is an annual celebration of goodwill and joy, but for others, it’s a time to curl up on the couch in the dead of winter for a good old fashioned fright. The festive holiday season has always included a more somber side, and scary tales of child-stealing demons to ghost stories told ‘round the fireplace go back to pre-Christian celebrations. These long-standing traditions have found modern expression in Christmas horror film and television shows, a unique and sometimes controversial subgenre that cheerfully drives a stake of holly through the heart of cherished Christmas customs.
Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, the latest book by Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical, offers a definitive, in-depth exploration of the history of these subversive film and television presentations that allow viewers to engage in different ways with the complicated cultural history of the Christmas season.
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Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, the latest book by Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical, offers a definitive, in-depth exploration of the history of these subversive film and television presentations that allow viewers to engage in different ways with the complicated cultural history of the Christmas season.
From the press release:...
- 9/7/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Horrere #1
Written by Rob Jones and Michael Sambrook
Art by Neil Ford, Alastair McLauchlan, Gareth Sleightholme, and Alisdair Wood
Letters by Rob Jones
Published by Little O/Madius Comics
In a way, Madius Comics’ Horrere #1 does for horror anthology comics what 2000 Ad did for science fiction during its inception in 1977. It’s 40 pages of black and white or monochromatic horror stories in different genres, including cryptozoology, monster, zombie, and even the first chapter in an occult/creepy baby story that’s a treat for fans of the Omen and Child’s Play films. The best stories in the anthology are the one-offs, which are slices of abject terror in a variety of settings from the lonely mountains of Wyoming to medieval German libraries and even beyond the apocalypse. The writers Rob Jones and Michael Sambrook also inject each story with a wicked sense of humor, and the final pages of...
Written by Rob Jones and Michael Sambrook
Art by Neil Ford, Alastair McLauchlan, Gareth Sleightholme, and Alisdair Wood
Letters by Rob Jones
Published by Little O/Madius Comics
In a way, Madius Comics’ Horrere #1 does for horror anthology comics what 2000 Ad did for science fiction during its inception in 1977. It’s 40 pages of black and white or monochromatic horror stories in different genres, including cryptozoology, monster, zombie, and even the first chapter in an occult/creepy baby story that’s a treat for fans of the Omen and Child’s Play films. The best stories in the anthology are the one-offs, which are slices of abject terror in a variety of settings from the lonely mountains of Wyoming to medieval German libraries and even beyond the apocalypse. The writers Rob Jones and Michael Sambrook also inject each story with a wicked sense of humor, and the final pages of...
- 10/26/2015
- by Logan Dalton
- SoundOnSight
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