The Strangest Northerns Ever: DC Style
Tales of the haunted north appeared across DC’s horror line. Here’s a sample of the best of them. The earliest Northern was actually from December Read More
Category: Ghost Stories
Donald F. Glut: The Doctor Spektor Interview
Donald F. Glut began his comic writing career in the late1960s with the Warren horror comics. This was good training, for he would pen some Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 2
Peter Haining (1940-2007) was one of a new breed of anthologists, one who made his living at anthologizing alone. Like Martin H. Greenberg in Science Read More
The Great Horror Anthologists – Part 1
For many younger readers, their entry drug into the worlds of horror was the novels of Stephen King. For me that was not the case. Read More
Yuki-Onna, The Woman of the Snows
This piece begins: With the winter snows finally arriving, it seems natural to turn to Horror stories that concern the cold. I’ve already written about Read More
Sherlock Holmes: The Reluctant Ghostbreaker
When one speaks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, visions of foggy London streets, hansom cabs, the Diogenes Club and the dim-witted bobbies from Scotland Read More
The Christmas Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Just the name Charles Dickens is enough to fill the ghost-story reader with images of snowy Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens, through his novel A Read More
Why Ghosts Must be Scary
Ghosts, as a monster of interest to horror fans, have fallen on hard times. Films, cartoons and comic books like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Read More