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First Scare: Kill, Baby, Kill
Mario Bava's gothic classic is a masterclass in designing and executing absolutely top-shelf spooky vibesItalian horror is hit or miss with me. I know it's essential to the genre, but the '70s...
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First Scare: Dracula (1974)
The one with the excess of close-ups and the perpetually constipated grimaceIdeally, Jack Palance should have been a great choice for the role of Count Dracula. His suitability for the role was so...
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First Scare: Dracula (1979)
The one that was color-graded with extreme prejudiceWith this being the fourth Dracula adaptation I watch for this series, I start to wonder: is it humanly possible to tell a Dracula story where women...
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First Scare: Interview With the Vampire (1994)
A groundbreaking vampire film, tangled with misogyny and old-school monster melodramaVampire horror is not my favorite genre, so I generally avoid most of it. My most positive experiences with vampire...
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First Scare: Poltergeist
A house that hides much worse than skeletons in its closetMy most persistent thought during the runtime of Poltergeist was about how much of this movie's DNA can be recognized in Stranger Things. The...
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First Scare: Phantasm
While not for everyone, Phantasm is an ode to boyhood, brothers, sci-fi, and not taking any shit.While I didn't grow up in the 1970s and I was never a boy, it's easy to see how much Phantasm was made...
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First Scare: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Weird, light, cynical, musical funI went all the way back to the ‘80s to find this classic horror musical for my First Scare piece. The idea of “musical” and “horror” normally has me heading in the...
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Book Review: He Who Drowned the World, by Shelley Parker-Chan
A masterpiece of politics, people, magic, murder, and warCover design and illustration by Lucy ScholesI almost didn’t read this book. I had enjoyed the first book in this series, She Who Became the Sun...
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And That's It for Our First Scare Series
Boo.Three weeks are nowhere near enough to get a good look at the vastness of classic horror. During our First Scare series at Nerds of a Feather, we've made our best effort to use the available time...
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6 Books with K V Johansen
K. V. Johansen was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she developed her lifelong fascination with fantasy literature after reading The Lord of the Rings at the age of eight. Her interest in the...
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Nanoreviews: Lyorn, Haunt Sweet Home, Extinction
Lyorn by Steven BrustMany of Steven Brust’s novels, at least in his Jhereg sequence, play a narrative game with structure—sometimes with a food recipe, sometimes as a gothic novel—and in Lyorn Brust...
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Film Review: Never Let Go
What's there to be afraid of? Wouldn't you want to go see it for yourself?In a remote house in the woods, a mother raises two kids. They have no contact with other people. This is by choice. They...
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Review: The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, by H. G. Parry
A familiar remix of familiar ideas, with not quite enough of anything fresh or novelI follow a lot of writers on social media, and one particular message that they often promulgate goes something like...
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TV Review: Nautilus
You can humanize Nemo, but you can't Disneyfy colonialismA character like Captain Nemo is challenging to write, all the more so in a prequel. Originally conceived by author Jules Verne as a Polish...
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K. J. Parker and the the Saevus Corax Trilogy
Now complete, the Saevus Corax trilogy shows the wit, cynicism, nuance and a comprehensive experience of K. J. Parker in the long form. And my favorite of his works.Tom Holt contains multitudes as an...
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GUEST POST: Pontypool Stage Show Review by Alasdair Stuart
Pontypool is my favourite horror movie. Adapted from Tony Burgess’ cult novel, it follows the crew of a tiny Canadian local radio station on the night that a virus spread through language breaks out in...
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Videogame Review: Persona 3 Reload/Episode Aigis by P-Studio
It’s Going Down. When the clock strikes twelve, the world enters an eerie state called the “midnight hour” and the shadows come out to play. But what is this midnight hour and why are these shadows on...
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Film Review: Pedro Páramo
Netflix adapts one of the most acclaimed classics of Latin American literatureLatin American history has been stained with blood since the time of colonization. The respective canons of our national...
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Book Review: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X gets weirder (and more male-driven) in Jeff VanderMeer’s fourth installment, the prequel Absolution.I’m a big fan of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (2014). I’ve presented on it at...
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Book Review: To Turn the Tide by S. M. Stirling
An argument about the Roman Empire that masquerades as a time travel into a alternate history novel.It’s not often that one finds that the end of the book is what a reader might consider reading first....
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