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Category Archives: Horror
Halloween Movie Offerings Examined at Pandora Zwieback Blog
Looking for something to watch this Spooky Season? In the mood for a horror movie marathon? Over at the Pandora Zwieback blog, this week I’m taking a look at what some of the cable channels are running for their Halloween programming … Continue reading
Posted in Halloween, Holidays, Horror, movies, Pandora Zwieback
Tagged halloween, halloween marathons, holidays, horror movies, movies, Pandora Zwieback
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It Just Wouldn’t Be Halloween Without Michael Myers…
To celebrate today’s release of Halloween Ends—the highly anticipated conclusion to the Jamie Lee Curtis–starring trilogy that began with 2018’s Halloween and continued with 2021’s Halloween Kills—we’ve dipped into the Bob Larkin Archives to present this haunting image: an ad Bob painted for TV … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Larkin, Bob Larkin Sketchbook, Halloween, Horror, movies
Tagged bob larkin, bob larkin sketchbook, from the stars a vampiress, halloween, halloween ends, horror movies, movies, shameless plugs
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It’s National Comic Book Day 2022!
Today is National Comic Book Day, an unofficial “holiday” that’s celebrated every year on this date…although no one seems to know why that is, or who exactly started the tradition. Nevertheless, if you’re thinking that the friendly fiends at StarWarp Concepts must have … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Digital Comics, Events, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, heartstopper, Horror, Publishing
Tagged chronicles of the sea dragon, comic books, digital comic books, events, graphic novels, heroines and heroes, lorelei presents: house macabre, lorelei: genesis, lorelei: sects and the city, national comic book day, saga of pandora zwieback annual, starwarp concepts backlist, the saga of pandora zwieback #0, troubleshooters incorporated
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Are You Ready for the Summer (Reading)?
Staycation? Vacation? Whether you’re on the road or just hanging at home, today is the official start of the summer season (which ends September 23), and that means summer reading. And you know what would make for perfect reading this … Continue reading
Posted in Carmilla, Classic Fiction, Dark Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror, Illustrated Classics, Nonfiction, Pandora Zwieback, Princess of Mars, Reading, Science Fiction, Summer Reading, vampirella, Vampires, Writing Reference Books, Young Adult
Tagged a princess of mars, blood feud: the saga of pandora zwieback book 1, carmilla, Dark Urban Fantasy, edgar rice burroughs, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, for a few gold pieces more, from the stars a vampiress, horror classics, illustrated classics, j. sheridan le fanu, nonfiction, reading, richard c. white, science fiction, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, summer reading, terra incognito: a guide to building the worlds of your imagination, vampire fiction, vampirella, young adult fiction
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The Headless Horseman to Ride Again
It’s Monday the 13th, which seems like the perfect time to pass along the recent announcement that writer Washington Irving’s classic tale of the Headless Horseman, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is scheduled for an all-new screen adaptation courtesy of Paramount Pictures and writer/director … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, e-books, Halloween, Horror, movies, Publishing
Tagged horror classics, movies, shameless plugs, sleepy hollow, starwarp concepts backlist, swc horror bites, the legend of sleepy hollow, washington irving
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Happy 125th Anniversary, Count Dracula!
Today is World Dracula Day: the annual celebration launched in 2012 by the Whitby Dracula Society 1897to mark the first publication of Bram Stoker’s seminal novel in 1897. What makes it even better is that it’s also the 125th anniversary of that … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Holidays, Horror, vampirella, Vampires
Tagged bram stoker, dracula, from the stars a vampiress, holidays, peter cushing, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, vampire fiction, vampirella, world dracula day
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SWC Titles Available Through E-book Distributor Draft2Digital
Back in March, e-book distributor Smashwords announced it had been acquired by its closest competitor, Draft2Digital, an equally successful e-tailer that, unlike Smashwords, is able to place its offered titles on Amazon. (SWC’s e-books, in case you’re unaware, have always been available … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Urban Fantasy, e-books, e-tailers, Fantasy, Horror, Writing Reference Books
Tagged blood feud: the saga of pandora zwieback book 1, blood reign: the saga of pandora zwieback book 2, draft2digital, e-books, e-tailers, for a few gold pieces more, harbinger of darkness, richard c. white, smashwords, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, terra incognito: a guide to building the worlds of your imagination
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Vampi Hears From Hollywood
Wanted! More Readers Like… It was a caption that always ran on “Fang Mail,” the letters page of Famous Monsters of Filmland—the magazine that inspired generations of actors, writers, directors, producers, and makeup and special effects magicians to follow their dreams—above … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Nonfiction, Steven A. Roman, vampirella
Tagged from the stars a vampiress, nonfiction, sam irvin, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, vampirella
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Happy 100th Anniversary, Nosferatu!
This coming Friday marks a special occasion for horror fans, because it was on March 4, 1922 that the classic silent film Nosferatu made its cinematic debut at a special premiere held at Germany’s Berlin Zoological Garden. Directed by F.W. Murnau … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Horror, movies, Vampires
Tagged black coat press, count orlock, f.w. murnau, jean-marc lofficier, max schreck, movies, night's children, nosferatu, steven a. roman, tales of the shadowmen, the vampire almanac, vampire fiction
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What Are SWC Horror Bites?
A few days ago, as part of marking the start of the 2022 celebration of Women in Horror Month, I mentioned our SWC Horror Bites imprint—but what is that, exactly? Well, put basically, “short tales to appease your monstrous hunger for … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, e-books, Horror, Publishing
Tagged clemence annie housman, e-books, horror classics, swc horror bites, the legend of sleepy hollow, washington irving, white fell the werewolf
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