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By Ryan Fleming Everyone loves a Styracosaurus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In any industry, advances in technology can alter the...

By Ryan Fleming This is not a good sofa to hide behind. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Since age restrictions were introduced to...

By Ryan Fleming HP Lovecraft. Unfilmable? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Unfilmable is mostly spoken about as a certitude, that...

By Ryan Fleming. The grandmother of slasher films. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. An oversaturated marketplace caused by innumerable...

By Ryan Fleming Inevitably, it was also made into a Musical. Bodyguards don't normally burst into song. Trust me on that. Picture...

By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....

By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...

By Ryan Fleming Sammy is preparing for a big event, due on June 6th. Set your calendars. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly...

By Ryan Fleming. The horror. The Omen (1976). Picture Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. By the time Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ushered in...

By Ryan Fleming. Katsuhiro Otomo riding Kaneda's motorcycle. That must be fun. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Remakes are everywhere...

By Ryan Fleming. They are, in fact, early televisions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. After experiments throughout the 1920s and...

By Ryan Fleming. (for Part 1 of this article, see here). It lives!!!! Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Between 1957 and 1974, Hammer...

By Ryan Fleming Three of the greats: Lugosi, Lee, Pallance. The Vampire Strikes Back. Image from Wikimedia. In writing about the history,...

By Ryan Fleming Can a work of fiction be cursed? If people, places or things can be cursed then why not a work of fiction too? Such...

By Ryan Fleming In the present day and for most of their history, comic books have been synonymous with the superhero genre. The genre...

By Ryan Fleming In popular culture there are some works that have managed to become famous despite never happening at all. Projects can...

By Ryan Fleming On 15th August 1945 the surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Emperor Hirohito, in effect bringing the Second...

By Ryan Fleming This series has so far looked at the development of the horror genre largely in its literary and cinematic form. This...

By Ryan Fleming When we last looked at horror films in this series we left them at the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. A decade of...

By Ryan Fleming In our look at Victorian vampires in an earlier article of this series, we discussed the penny dreadfuls. Those cheap,...