Divers and Sundry

Teke Teke is a 2009 Japanese horror film based on an urban legend about a girl who falls on train tracks and is severed at the waist. Her ...

The Snack Bar (1930): by Edward Burra , who died on October 22, 1976, at 71 years of age, his health having steadily declined after br...

A Warning to the Curious is a 1925 ghost story by M.R. James. Wikipedia says, "Written a few years after the end of The First World Wa...

The Shout is an award-winning 1978 horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York, and Tim Cur...

Pigeons from Hell is a 1938 short story by Robert E. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian. This story is a fine exampl...

Bloody Reunion is a 2006 Korean revenge horror film. I didn't care for this one. It didn't come together for me, and I still don...

Slade House is a 2015 horror novel by David Mitchell. It's a type of soul vampire story. This was quick to read, and I'm wondering...

Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction film (you'll hear some describe it as science fiction/horror, but it's not horror in any mea...

Still Life with Open Drawer (1879): by Paul Cezanne , who died on October 22, 1906. My own still life is quite different, though more ...

Peeping Tom is a 1960 horror movie, a thriller film about a serial killer. Not at all gory, but quite disturbing. The Guardian says, ...

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral is a 1911 short story by M.R. James. Wikipedia has this synopsis: "Archdeacon Pultney of Barchester...

Train to Busan is a 2016 award-winning Korean zombie film directed by Yeon Sang-ho. I can't recommend this highly enough. It's more...

The Cigarette Case is a 1911 short story by Oliver Onions . It can be read online here. You can listen to it via Librivox here . It begin...

Death Bell is a 2008 Korean horror film. I found this one confusing. I had trouble keeping up with who was who and what their relationships...

Chirpin' the Blues : sung by Memphis-born Alberta Hunter , who died on this date in 1984 at 89 years old. Lyrics excerpt: I wo...

Cafe Bauer : Im Café Victoria, Berlin (1904): Lesser Ury  was a Prussian-born German Impressionist painter, who died on October 18, 1...

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad is a 1904 ghost story by M.R. James. It begins, 'I suppose you will be getting away pre...

Demons is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava. The soundtrack may be the best thing about it. Very 80s. trailer: watc...

Rooum is a 1911 ghost story from the collection Widdershins by Oliver Onions . In it an engineer is pursued by an unknown, unseen prese...

Whispering Corridors is a 1998 Korean horror movie, the first in a series . This is more sad than scary. Schools are damaging places. tra...