I’m back, y’all! After a short break to give the gift guide some breathing room, it’s time for another round of write-ups for books that seem to be well-regarded in the realm of horror. In this intro, one thing I did want to mention that may have crossed some minds in all this. The title…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2021 – Part 1 Blu-ray and UHD Releases
So we’re at the end of another year, or did 2020 never end and this is all one extended time/space period? Let’s forget I said that. Anyway, I never did like the idea of counting down favorite things so I never do a Best of, but I do like to call attention to great things,…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2021 – Part III – Music
Look, I know a lot of you Spotify or YouTube your music, and hey I’m guilty of that as well, but I still buy a ton of physical releases every year, and almost every one of these artists on this list I’ve bought something from (well the ones without a signature are my recommendations), because…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: I Am the Experimental and Beloved Gifts
As I near completing a third of the big list of horror books I’ve committed to reading, I thought I’d reflect a little on why I’m doing this. There are a few reasons actually. First and foremost, I genuinely LOVE horror fiction, whether it be books, films or TV series. The thing is, horror rarely…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Bloody Guns on the Borderland
In the last entry, I know I started with a fancy intro talking about weird fiction that might have led you to believe I was going to get all high falootin’ trying to educate you on history and stuff. Well, fret not, dear folks! I am far too lazy to do that kind of intro…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Gothic Psycho Beauties
Things are gettin’ weeeeiiiirrrd, folks. I thought in this intro, I’d talk a little about the history of weird fiction as I see it (which may indeed be a narrow lens to look through). First, what exactly is weird fiction? Well, it’s fairly self-explanatory actually. Generally pretty strange in tone, often with horror elements and…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Exorcising the Silver Fisherman
Welcome back, boils and ghouls! I hope you’ve had a fruitful Halloween, catching up on some cool spooky classics, because that’s what I’ve been doing. This time, I’ll cover a towering classic of Jesuit terror, a tragic tale of cosmic horror, a spunky ensemble people in an asylum, a weird ass slice of crime fiction…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Folklore in Blood
Welcome to another chapter in my on-going quest to read a ton of horror novels that are supposed to be good. In this entry, I’ve got a gory slice of teen lit terror, an imaginative collection of tales inspired by Caribbean folklore, a genre-defining vampire classic, an intense modern take on demon possession and a…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Terror in 3D
This time on Ben Reads the Horror Classics, I tackle a classic of absurdist existentialism, an epic 19th century tale amidst the Spanish Inquisition, an imaginative graphic novel on xenophobia, a hybrid of historical fiction and Arctic horror that will leave you chilled to the bone and a seminal anthology by some of the most…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Snatching Bodies and Jack the Ripper Conspiracy Theories
This time on Ben Reads the Horror Classics, I’ll be covering a sci-fi horror classic of small town paranoia, a couple of shorter works in Black Horror Fiction, a fun Lovecraftian send-up of Scooby Doo, a haunting disintegration of a ’60s psych folk band and a legendary graphic novel from a master of the form….