Neil McRobert

1 month 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.

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.

Sep 12, 2024 | msn.com | Neil McRobert

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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.

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.