“The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro
What begins as a terrific premise and opening set-up for an original tale quickly devolves to action tropes and rehashed storytelling.
“Pontypool Changes Everything” by Tony Burgess
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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury
Beautiful, sweeping, small town American horror centered around our fear of mortality and personal unease.
“Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin
Levin’s clean and modern anesthetized prose simultaneously distances us from the possibility of horror and creates it. A novel more successful than its filmic-visual counterpart for what it blinds itself to.
“The Edge of Running Water” by William Sloane
Sloane’s novella, a hybrid cosmic horror/whodunnit, is a satisfying read, not despite of but because of his slow burn deferral to character behavior over “unspeakable horror.”
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
The tremendous 1818 version of the tale, heady and philosophical, its principle horrors gutted by the film versions which followed.
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