Horror

Stories that make me afraid and anxious.

  • Scott Snyder’s American Vampire Volume 5

    The Meteors playing “My Daddy is a Vampire” to clips of Christopher Lee (my favorite Dracula). WARNING: SPOILERS! The fifth volume of Scott Snyder’s American Vampire comic book series reminds you that time has been passing with each successive volume. It’s easy to forget because vampires are immortal, so they are drawn the same page…

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  • Goodreads Review: American Vampire Volume 4

    American Vampire, Vol. 4 by Scott Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t remember the previous volumes well enough so I have to ask is Volume 4 the first time the vampires in American Vampire have a little “color” to them? The book begins with an American Indian vampire and concludes with an…

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  • Goodreads Review: “You Must Be This Happy To Enter”

    You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane My rating: 4 of 5 stars I kept hearing Alison Brie’s character on Community, Annie, as I read the stories in this book. There is this purposeful superficial quality to the tone of voice in the writing — a wide-eyed dreamy “detachedness” –that belies the…

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  • Rango: A Kiddie Vision Quest

    The one thing everyone kept telling me about Rango was that it wasn’t a "kid’s film." With the ticket price what it is in New York, it was enough for me to tell my boys we’d wait for the film to come out on DVD. I’d been burnt before – Robots – Chicken Little. Even…

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  • Picturing Books: Boy Dumplings & Oh No

    I believe with those who believe picture books are an art form. I appreciate the art of the picture book. I have written about my appreciation of the picture book before. Despite being in town this summer, the children did not participate in the New York Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. We meant to but…

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Vincent Young