Vampire Movies with Author Nathaniel Thompson

I'm pretty sure I've had anxiety for the majority of my life. You wouldn't think that would lead to a fascination with the horror genre, but as this is all about my Horrific Origin, here I am. It's like one of my cousins says: "I like to watch horror movies when I feel bad. They [...]

It was sometime early in the summer between kindergarten and first grade when my mother decided that I wasn’t going to spend my well-earned vacation playing endless amounts of Super Mario Brothers. She disappeared for a while that night when my father got home from work and came back with a stack of books. It [...]

Growing up as a bisexual kid in the midwest I didn’t have a lot of connections to queer culture. I didn't know anyone who was queer and outside of comics, mainstream media was aggressively straight in the ’90s and 2000s which often felt isolating. The one genre that seemed to consistently buck this trend across [...]

Salem, Massachusetts has a long and notable history, most of which would not be considered bright and happy. All Hallow’s Eve in Salem, written by Kristian James, and illustrated by Alisa Aryutova, sets out to prove otherwise with this breezy children’s book. Touting Salem as the “unofficial town of Halloween,” All Hallow’s Eve in Salem takes [...]

As the saying goes, we all get by with a little help from our friends. For some of us, we may not realize just how important our friends truly are in our day to day lives. In Maury the Miserable Vampire, written by Jeff Roland and illustrated by Adamah VanArsdale, this concept is explored through [...]

Renata Wakefield is moments from committing suicide when she receives the news that her mother has been gruesomely murdered in a way mirroring the work of prolific horror author Quentin C. Rye. So begins For Rye, the debut novel by Gavin Gardiner and perhaps the heaviest thing I've read in quite some time. Renata is [...]