by a2 hosting admin account | Aug 14, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
[The following is a reprint of a column which originally appeared in the March 31, 2005, issue of Hellnotes.] Bram Stoker is best known for the quintessential vampire novel Dracula, which was published in 1897. He also wrote other horror stories and novels as well as...
by a2 hosting admin account | Jul 11, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
What makes Australian weird fiction different? In his introduction to The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction, Ken Gelder describes gothic fiction as “an intense blend of the supernatural, family romance and gloomy atmospherics.” He says the...
by a2 hosting admin account | Jun 2, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
A neglected geographical category of classic horror fiction is that of Australia. English-speaking readers, even many in Australia, are more familiar with English, Irish, and American weird tales than with those published down under. A movement is afoot within the...
by a2 hosting admin account | May 5, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
[The following is a reprint of a column which originally appeared in the February 24, 2005, issue of Hellnotes.] Frank Belknap Long, Jr., had a long and prolific writing career, penning hundreds of stories and a number of novels in the genres of horror, science...
by a2 hosting admin account | Apr 7, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
[The following is an updated reprint of a column which originally appeared in the January 27, 2005, issue of Hellnotes. Editor’s Note: This is Ron’s 50th column on Old Masters of Horror. If you have any appreciation for the roots of the genre, you’ve...
by a2 hosting admin account | Mar 11, 2008 | Columns & Editorials
Richard Marsh is best known for the 1897 novel The Beetle, which gave him the distinction of writing a book which surpassed Bram Stoker’s Dracula in popularity at the time. He had two distinct periods in his literary career, differentiated not only by the name...
