Sandy Ferber

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber |Ramsey Campbell

Dark Feasts by Ramsey CampbellThe last two books that I finished in 2024 had this in common: They were both collections that were chosen for inclusion in Jones & Newman’s excellent overview volume Horror: 100 Best Books (1988). I just loved Karl Edward Wagner’s In a Lonely Place (1983), as it turned out, and much enjoyed Lisa Tuttle’s A Nest of Nightmares (1986), although some of the stories in that latter volume had proven disappointing for me by dint of their ambiguity.

Nov 4, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber |Simon Raven

Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven The British film Bloodsuckers, from 1970, was easily one of the worst cinematic experiences I’ve sat through in recent memory; a confused and confusing mess of a movie, made even more disappointing for me by dint of the fact that the two lead actors whose participation induced me to watch the film in the first place – namely, Peter Cushing and Patrick Macnee – don’t even appear on screen together once! And yet, I thought, the central premise of the film,...

Oct 1, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will be startled by a very hungry crocodile, Robert Englund, a ferocious leopard, and yummy Nancy Kwan! It’s Eaten Alive and Night Creature!EATEN ALIVE (1976)Tobe Hooper’s debut film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), although not nearly as graphically violent as popularly believed, is nevertheless quite a nightmarish experience to sit through.

Oct 1, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will be gobsmacked by a grown man who lives in a baby crib, the always-wonderful Marianna Hill, zombies, and a haunted farmhouse! It’s The Baby and The Abandoned!THE BABY (1973)Although many of us have been guilty of “not acting our age” on occasion, few can be said to be so consistently immature as the character David Manzy plays in the 1973 horror film The Baby.

Oct 1, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber

In today’s Shocktober Double Feature, we will be rattled by lions and tigers and jaguars, Tippi Hedren, the deadly black mamba, and Klaus Kinski! It’s Roar and Venom! ROAR (1981) It turns out that birds aren’t the only critters to have given actress Tippi Hedren a rough time on screen! In Roar (1981), a film that Tippi and her then-husband Noel Marshall – along with sons John and Jerry and daughter Melanie Griffith – star – in (Tippi and Noel also wrote, produced and directed), all manner of...