Mystery

Christie chips in on Detection Club’s ‘Floating Admiral’ (1931) 

“The Floating Admiral” (1931) is billed as “the most unusual mystery ever written,” and it may indeed be. It’s a “round-robin” novel. Think of it

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‘Cry of Thunder’ (2008) has Holmes, Kolchak … and messy plot 

“Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder” (three issues, 2008, collected in 2010) includes the Tombstone Thunderbird myth – remarkably underused in fresh

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‘Endless Night’ (1967) shows the ‘happily ever after’ … not so happily 

“Endless Night” (1967) is often ranked as the Agatha Christie novel that most fits the horror label. Although I give a slight edge to proto-slasher

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‘The Ring Two’ (2005) an inferior, CGI-dependent sequel 

As “The Ring Two” (2005) opens, high school senior Ryan Merriman tries to pass the “You’ll die in one week” curse to classmate Emily VanCamp

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‘Barbarian’ a wild ride with scares big and small

Quentin Tarantino hasn’t done a straight horror film, but if he had, it might’ve looked something like “Barbarian.” This film immediately puts writer-director Zach Cregger

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‘Damien’ (2016) gives ‘Omen’ lad more adult struggles 

The 2010s were the decade of TV continuations of legendary horror franchises, highlighted by “Bates Motel” (2012-17), “Hannibal” (2013-15) and “The Exorcist” (2016-18). The least

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‘A Murder is Announced’ (1950) a vintage ‘cozy mystery’ 

Agatha Christie didn’t write as many cozy village murder mysteries as the stereotype suggests. But “A Murder is Announced” (1950) is one of them, with

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‘Hellraiser’ still has plenty of (Ceno)bite in 11th entry

In an era when the big horror franchises are in a constant state of reinvention, it makes sense that in the 11th “Hellraiser” film (Hulu),

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‘Kolchak’ files ‘Lovecraftian Horror’ (2007) for publication too quickly 

C.J. Henderson, writer of both comic stories and novels in Moonstone’s “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” stable, splits the difference in “The Lovecraftian Horror” (2007). In

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‘House of Darkness’ an engaging ‘meet (not so) cute’

So many new horror movies are out in 2022 that I don’t have time to research them beforehand (plus, I like to avoid spoilers). If

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