Legacy of the Marsten House
"'salem's Lot" is a novel that teaches us how to be human in the face of remorseless forces that seek to dehumanize us.
It Takes Many Forms: Horror as Resistance
"I recently had the honor of being invited to speak at the 2018 Salem Horror Fest in Salem, MA on the topic of the horror genre serving as an engine for resistance against systematic oppression. While I pulled some of the lecture material from past installments of Hallowed Horrors, I thought it might be of interest to Rue Morgue readers if I posted a properly edited version of my talk here. Enjoy!"
Community Theater Set to Adapt Stephen King’s “One for the Road”
Forty years after the publication of Stephen King's NIGHT SHIFT, director Brett Stults hopes to remind audiences of what happens when one ventures too close to “the Lot” in his upcoming stage adaptation of the short story ONE FOR THE ROAD, performed live on October 26th and 27th at the Rio Linda Elverta Community Theater in northern California.
“Listen to the night, it’s deafening”: Celebrating 31 years of “Near Dark”
In appreciation of NEAR DARK, a noteworthy addition to not only the western vampire canon, but horror cinema as a whole.
“Darkness is our natural condition”: An Interview with author Douglas Cowan
In his latest book, America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King, Cowan parlays the broad religious groundwork of Sacred Terror into an intensive examination of King and the 71-year-old bestselling author’s belief “in the power of narrative, the ability of a well-told story to affect people at the most profound levels."
