Ferretbrain - Article Archives

Hex Education, Shaw Brothers Style
Arthur B - Friday, 19 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) Hex starts off strong but fails to stick the landing.

The Family That Slays Together Stays Together
Arthur B - Thursday, 18 October 2018

(Books, Horror, Non-Fiction) Vincent Bugliosi's account of the Manson murders remains one of the best sources on the subject.

Out On a Limb
Arthur B - Wednesday, 17 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) The Wicker Tree in no respect meets the standard set by its illustrious predecessor.

Gull's From Hell and John's From Glasgow
Arthur B - Tuesday, 16 October 2018

(Books, Historical, Horror, Non-Fiction, Comics, Crime Fiction) An extended meditation on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, with a bizarre coda about Grant Morrison's brief sojourn into similar turf.

Satan's Infectious Taint
Arthur B - Monday, 15 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) Blood On Satan's Claw is - unfairly - the most overlooked of the three major "folk horror" movies of the late 1960s/early 1970s.

(Mythos) Monster In My Pocket!
Arthur B - Sunday, 14 October 2018

(Computer Games, Horror, CRPGs, Creepy Howie and Friends) Cthulhu Chronicles is a flawed mobile game with potential.

When Tourists Visit Goatswood...
Arthur B - Saturday, 13 October 2018

(Damage Report, Books, Horror, Ramsey Campbell, Creepy Howie and Friends) Enjoying a particularly good Ramsey Campbell tribute anthology.

Bernard the Storyteller
Arthur B - Friday, 12 October 2018

(Books, Horror, Non-Fiction) Andy Collins might be the author of The Black Alchemist, but someone entirely different devised the story...

Detention
Ronan Wills - Thursday, 11 October 2018

(Computer Games, Horror) Taiwan's history of martial law makes for an excellent portable horror game

Phillips & Keatman, Questers Extraordinaire
Arthur B - Wednesday, 10 October 2018

(Books, Sci-fi / Fantasy, Horror, Non-Fiction) Being a review of two seminal texts in the curious microgenre of "psychic questing".

Ænigmatic and Œverlooked
Arthur B - Tuesday, 09 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) A look at a downright bizarre late-career Lucio Fulci movie.

Military Monsters In Alien Costumes
Arthur B - Monday, 08 October 2018

(Sci-fi / Fantasy, Horror, Non-Fiction) When it comes to early Internet text files on paranormal subjects, Martin Cannon's The Controllers is a remarkably influential work.

GOGathon: What a Lovely Thing I've Seen In the Black Mirror!
Arthur B - Sunday, 07 October 2018

(Computer Games, Horror, Gogathon, Visual Novels and Adventure Games ) On my strange enjoyment of an eerie point-and-click adventure.

Save vs. Libel, Pt. 2: The Rumour Dies, the Scars Remain
Arthur B - Saturday, 06 October 2018

(Books, Batteries Not Required, Horror, Non-Fiction) After the Satanic Panic collapsed, gamers carried grudges from it into the future.

Save vs. Libel, Pt. 1: The Rise of a Popular Error
Arthur B - Friday, 05 October 2018

(Books, Batteries Not Required, Horror, Non-Fiction, Comics) For a while, many people genuinely believed Dungeons & Dragons drove you insane and ripped out your soul for Satan. How did that start?

George Eastman: Absurd Anthropophage
Arthur B - Thursday, 04 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) George Eastman's performance is a highlight of not one but two early 1980s video nasties.

All My Friends Know the Pale Rider...
Arthur B - Wednesday, 03 October 2018

(Books, Sci-fi / Fantasy, Horror, Non-Fiction) The life and ideas of Milton William Cooper seems strangely relevant to our current Trump-inflicted world of fake news and paranoia.

Always Be Purging
Ronan Wills - Tuesday, 02 October 2018

(TV & Movies, Horror) The Purge series course-corrected after an underwhelming first installment. How successful was it?

A Very Specific Level of Scepticism
Arthur B - Monday, 01 October 2018

(Books, Sci-fi / Fantasy, Horror, Non-Fiction) Greg Bishop's Project Beta is sceptical enough to disbelieve some fringe theories but credulous enough to embrace others.