Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Psycho

The Backstory to Robert Bloch’s “Psycho”

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The next article in our series entitled “What Was the Author Thinking” spotlights the master of the macabre Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. The novel originally published in 1959 and the basis of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie is considered a classic in the genre.
Cat in a cemetary

What Inspired Stephen King to Write “Pet Sematary”

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Do you ever wonder how Stephen King comes up with the ideas for his novel? In this blog you find the real-life incidents that inspired "Pet Sematary."
Skip Harris, Phil Proctor and Bobb Lynes in Dead Men Kill

Zombies—Fact or Fiction?

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Are zombies real? And what separates the facts from the fiction? Here are the facts from Hollywood to Haiti and in literature on zombies.
FEAR’s 75th Anniversary

FEAR’s 75th Anniversary

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Seventy-five years after its 1940 publication, Fear by L. Ron Hubbard remains one of the foundations of the contemporary horror genre, widely influential and powerfully effective.