Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
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Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
16h ago
Here are some of the dialogic diamonds mined from episode 3 of Horror’s Greatest, “Hidden Gems”: Sam Zimmerman: Hidden gems exist because there’s such a proliferation of horror, and there are so many modes of distribution that a movie could ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
1w ago
It’s Paradise (Lost) By the Dashboard Light in “Killer Dates,” this season’s second episode of Horror’s Greatest. Some of the quotes that I just loved: Jenn Wexler: Fears and anxieties around dating can be driven by our own fears ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2w ago
2024 was a strong year for horror fiction, and the coming year looks very promising as well. Here are 20 books on my reader radar for 2025 (scheduled release dates in the captions): (Cover to be Revealed) How to Survive ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2w ago
A happy new year, indeed. One of my favorite shows, Horror’s Greatest, has returned for a second series of themed episodes on Shudder. Here are some of the best thoughts that the resident talking heads shared during the season premiere, “Animal ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2w ago
Editor Ellen Datlow sets a formidable table of contents for her 2024 anthology The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 16. Narrowing down from those nineteen selections was no easy task, since they are uniformly strong. That said, here are ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2w ago
I’ll admit it: I can be stubbornly skeptical when it comes to pop cultural darlings. I’m the guy who missed the entire first season of The Sopranos because I felt it had to be overhyped (I was hooked on the show ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2w ago
As we get ready to usher in the new year, I’d like to direct readers’ attention to “Ushers”–an Amazon Original Story by Joe Hill that is available as a free read for Prime members. In their investigation of a deadly ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
1M ago
The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley, 2024) Wrobel’s novel presents a killer hook: the action is set at a New England theme hotel dedicated to the film career of Alfred Hitchcock. The eponymous hilltop manse (which “resembles the Bates ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
1M ago
Woo-hoo! We’ve been treated to a second Treehouse of Horror this Season, one based on the genre fiction of Ray Bradbury. Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes echoes the author’s classic dark carnival novel (and mimics the title art of the ..read more
Joe Nazare | Dispatches from the Macabre Repulic
2M ago
It never fails: no matter how much I try to plan ahead, I can never seem to cram in everything I want to watch, read, write about, and do during Halloween season. For instance, the 2023 documentary-series episode Halloween Obsessed ..read more