As the stars align in weird conglomerations, this edition of Esoterror Sinema shall stick the blade of cinematic bullsh*t into the subject of occultism within the films adapted from the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The literary genius of H.P. Lovecraft is well known to anyone with even the most infantile understanding of the origins of horror and understands his …

DUNGEON THE EARLY YEARS 2: INNOCENCE LOST (DUNGEON: THE EARLY YEARS) (PAPERBACK) Written by Lewis Trondheim Lewis Trondheim (Author), Joann Sfar (Author), Christophe Blain (Illustrator) Published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 96 Pages Price: $12.95 Dungeon – the Early years, Vol 2. Innocence Lost continues the long lasting Dungeon series cartoon epic. Well I …

DEVIL’S KNOT : THE TRUE STORY OF THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE Written by Mara Leveritt Published by Atria Books Publication Date: 2003 Format: B&W – 404 pages Price: $15.00 Hell-o, True Crime buffs (and false imprisonment Fighters). This review is for a novel that I hold near and dear to my heart. I am a big part in the battle …

DEVIL #2 (COMIC) Story & Art: Torajiro Kishi, Madhouse Studios Letters: Sasquatch Editors: Tim Ervin Cover Artist: Torajiro Kishi Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 28 Price: $3.50 “Could there ever be such thing as a vampire virus? Sounds like the stuff of sci-fi and horror all wrapped up in one, and that’s what makes Devil …

DEVIL #1 (COMIC) Story & Art: Torajiro Kishi, Madhouse Studios Letters: Sasquatch Editors: Tim Ervin Cover Artist: Torajiro Kishi Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 28 Price: $3.50 A virus is raging across the planet, turning people into bloodsucking superhumans referred to as “Devils.” Most victims die within days, sometimes months, but there’s a new strain, …

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgsqsn_wake-wood-2011-uk-trailer_shortfilms[/dailymotion] SYNOPSIS The village of Wake Wood in rural Ireland has preserved a tradition which enables its inhabitants to bring a person back from the dead for three days, one year after their death, in order to say a final farewell to their loved ones, before they make their final journey to the spirit world. Patrick and Louise Daly have …

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EMBRACING THE DARKNESS; UNDERSTANDING DARK SUBCULTURES Written by Corvis Nocturnum Art by Corvis Nocturnum Published by Dark Moon Press Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Making the assumption that this was a “how to be a Goth book” would be a mistake. Why I say this, …

DOORWAY UNTO DARKNESS Written by Owen Keehnen Published by: Dancing Moon Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 280 pages Price: $15.00 Possession, evil, darkness, brutality, and gore are all words that could be used to describe Owen Keehnen’s Doorway Unto Darkness. Keehnen tells the tale of a man possessed by an all-consuming, powerful, and unmerciful evil; a …

DINGO- ISSUE#2 (COMIC) Creator & Writer: Michael Alan Nelson Artist: Francesco Biagini Colors: Stephen Downer Letters: James Dashiell Editors: Matt Gagnon, Dafna Pleban Cover Artists: Francesco Biagini, Paul Harmon Published by: Boom Studios Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 24 pages Price: $3.99 “Dingo thought all his problems were behind him. Sure, his brother asked an impossible favor. Yes, …

DIGITAL HORROR ART: CREATING CHILLING HORROR AND MACABRE IMAGES Written by Martin McKenna Published by Course Technology PTR; 1 edition Publication Date: 2006 Format: Color – 160 pages Price: $29.99 It’s not very often you see books published on the subject. But it doesn’t change the fact that Horror Art is an extremely popular field that crosses over into film, …

Willy by Robert Dunbar (Uninvited Books) In a school for boys with emotional problems, a disturbed adolescent struggles against a mire of superstition and oppression. Then he meets Willy … and the other boy – charismatic and strange – saves him. Or damns him.

SYNOPSIS An idyllic weekend in the mountains turns into a harrowing nightmare for an expectant young couple. Three weeks before it’s due date, the baby starts to kick and in a desperate drive to the hospital they suffer an horrific accident. Stuck out in the American wilderness, the couple are stranded and totally isolated. Pinned in the wreck of their …

Another poster is out for DYLAN DOG DEAD OF NIGHT and once again that creepy gray arm is back in all its zombie glory. This time it is not pawing the chest of Dylan but looming menacingly before Dylan as he wanders flashlight in hand through a foggy graveyard. DYLAN DOG DEAD OF NIGHT stars Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, and …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYopij1eR8s[/youtube] Kore wa Zombie desu ka? or Korezom as it is officially abbreviated, is a story by Shinichi Kimura, with illustrations by Kobuichi and Muririn. The plot revolves around a boy named Ayumu Aikawa who was murdered by a serial killer and later brought back to the world of the living by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. Sadly poor Ayumu …

Paddy Considine (TYRANNOSAUR) announced his plans to start on a new project titled THE LEANING to www.totalfilm.com/. Considine will take on the role of both writer and director of the horror film that will be inspired by elements from the classic film THE EXORCIST. The movie will be a ghost story about a woman unable to establish functional relationships because …