Neil McRobert

Manchester

Once did a PhD in Gothic. No I don't wear a cloak. Now podcasting @talkscaredpod. Stuff published in @guardianbooks @esquire @slant_magazine @slate #horror

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All The 'Black Mirror' Season 7 Episodes, Ranked From Worst To Best

3 weeks ago | elle.com | Neil McRobert

Spoilers below. Back in 2023, the sixth season of Netflix’s acclaimed sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror left me of two minds about the future of the show. I admired how showrunner Charlie Brooker had reignited the show’s renewed energy, but lamented his shifting of the goalposts. Yes, the best episodes ('Demon 79' and 'Loch Henry') did showcase the vicious humour and queasy shocks that built Black Mirror‘s reputation, but they did so at the expense of the show’s core conceit.
All the 'Black Mirror' Season 7 Episodes, Ranked from Worst to Best

4 weeks ago | elle.com | Neil McRobert

Spoilers below. Back in 2023, the sixth season of Netflix’s acclaimed sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror left me of two minds about the future of the show. I admired how showrunner Charlie Brooker had reignited the show’s renewed energy, but lamented his shifting of the goalposts. Yes, the best episodes (“Demon 79” and “Loch Henry”) did showcase the vicious humor and queasy shocks that built Black Mirror‘s reputation, but they did so at the expense of the show’s core conceit.
Plumbing the Depths: Survival and Adventure Horror

2 months ago | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Neil McRobert

The tagline to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre asks: “Who will survive and what will be left of them?” Like so many things about that movie, it skewers the wriggling crux of horror. Because all horror stories are about survival, aren’t they? It’s the shadow cast at the heart of the genre. The thing in the dark, in the closet, under our beds; the thing with the knife, the teeth . . . or the roaring chainsaw—they are all just different costumes draped upon the same bony shoulders.
All 77 Stephen King Books, Ranked

Oct 24, 2024 | esquire.com | Neil McRobert

That Faithful has made this list at all is a sign of my obsessive completionism. This chronicle of the Boston Red Sox’s 2004 season is almost unreadable to anyone who isn’t an aficionado of baseball. Early passages in which King and fellow über-fan O’Nan head to off-season training in Florida do capture something of the enthusiasm and nostalgia for the Great American Pastime. Beyond that, Faithful is a series of stats and fixtures as obscure as King’s most convoluted mythologies.
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)

Sep 12, 2024 | msn.com | Neil McRobert

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The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)

Sep 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Neil McRobert

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for fictional horrors. That has never been true. The carnage of pulp magazines only gained popularity after the world wars, while Vietnam and the end of the hippie dream led directly to The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, and the ascendancy of Stephen King.
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)

Sep 12, 2024 | redbookmag.com | Neil McRobert

There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their appetite for fictional horrors. That has never been true. The carnage of pulp magazines only gained popularity after the world wars, while Vietnam and the end of the hippie dream led directly to The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, and the ascendancy of Stephen King. And now our freshly unstable world is proving fertile ground for the growth of new budding nightmares.
Alone In A Dark Room: Paul Tremblay On HORROR MOVIE

Jun 13, 2024 | fangoria.com | Neil McRobert

Paul Tremblay writes what critics like to call “unfilmable” books. His fiction employs all manner of experimentation and postmodern trickery, often to undermine any secure sense of reality, and to expose the apparatus of storytelling itself. Even M.
‎Talking Scared: Off Book #1 – Phil Nobile Jr. & Fangoria on Apple Podcasts

May 23, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Neil McRobert

Send us a Text Message.Believe it or not, there is more to life than just books. Very little, granted… but there is more. Talking Scared: Off Book is a chance for this show to spread its wings a little. To fly further, wider, deeper into the world of horror and come back carrying different kinds of guests in our bloody beak! (ok, I may have stretched that metaphor too far). Basically, I’ll be talking, now and then, to other kinds of horror creatives. Filmmakers, actors, m...
Emil Ferris: ‘We can’t enter a future without our humanity’

May 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Neil McRobert

Emil Ferris had a feeling she was a monster at an early age. “I was a werewolf,” she says, quite happily. “I had fangs and I was furry.”Karen, the little werewolf girl at the heart of Ferris’s landmark graphic novel, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, is clearly inspired by that self-portrait. The character is drawn as an oh-so-cute creature who is vulnerable, optimistic and hirsute.