This ghost story by Jack Finney (author of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel) is another good one from the Playboy collection, whic...

[ listen up! ] Primal Scream’s third album, Screamadelica , threw out the band’s original alt-indie style in favor of house techno dance app...

You’ve got to hand it to Obsession for being so arguably unoriginal, borrowing familiar ideas from all over the place and simply making the...

V.S. Naipaul’s novel of postcolonial Africa is a portrait of a shifting mosaic of chaos alternating with brief periods of peace. Salim is th...

USA, 109 minutes Director: John Carpenter Writers: Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr. Photography: Dean Cundey Music: Ennio Morricone Edit...

William Hope Hodgson’s story of troubles at sea on a dark night of the soul appears in his Sargasso Sea Stories collection, which unfortuna...

[ listen up! ] This song was paired on the first single from Abbey Road with Frank Sinatra’s favorite Beatles song, the George Harrison-pen...

Although the original 1978 Faces of Death turned out to be mostly a put-up job (see also Cannibal Holocaust ) it did include some of its ma...

I thought this story by Clark Ashton Smith was pretty darn good—sometimes, in the wastelands of horror fiction, a good story gives me relief...

By 1967 the Kinks were well into their hiatus from inventing rock (“You Really Got Me,” “Who’ll Be the Next in Line,” etc.) and on to the se...