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Tales from Development Hell: Dinosaur
By Ryan Fleming Everyone loves a Styracosaurus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In any industry, advances in technology can alter the...
Oct 27, 20239 min read


An Alternate History of Horror XVI: Behind the Sofa
By Ryan Fleming This is not a good sofa to hide behind. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Since age restrictions were introduced to...
Oct 13, 202314 min read


Tales from Development Hell: At the Mountains of Madness.
By Ryan Fleming HP Lovecraft. Unfilmable? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Unfilmable is mostly spoken about as a certitude, that...
Sep 29, 20239 min read


An Alternate History of Horror XV: Teenage Wasteland.
By Ryan Fleming. The grandmother of slasher films. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. An oversaturated marketplace caused by innumerable...
Sep 22, 202313 min read


Tales from Development Hell: The Bodyguard
By Ryan Fleming Inevitably, it was also made into a Musical. Bodyguards don't normally burst into song. Trust me on that. Picture...
Aug 18, 202310 min read


An Alternate History of Horror XIV: Paperbacks from Hell
By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....
Aug 11, 202314 min read


Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma
By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...
Jul 28, 202314 min read


Monthly Vignette: Valiant.
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...
Jun 3, 20235 min read


An Alternate History of Horror. Part XII: Modern Times
By Ryan Fleming. The horror. The Omen (1976). Picture Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. By the time Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ushered in...
Jun 2, 202314 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Akira
By Ryan Fleming. Katsuhiro Otomo riding Kaneda's motorcycle. That must be fun. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Remakes are everywhere...
May 26, 20239 min read


An Alternate History of Horror: Part XI. The Idiot Box
By Ryan Fleming. They are, in fact, early televisions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. After experiments throughout the 1920s and...
May 19, 202316 min read


An Alternate History of Horror: Kensington Gore, Part 2.
By Ryan Fleming. (for Part 1 of this article, see here). It lives!!!! Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Between 1957 and 1974, Hammer...
Apr 21, 202312 min read


An Alternate History of Horror X: Kensington Gore, Part 1
By Ryan Fleming Three of the greats: Lugosi, Lee, Pallance. The Vampire Strikes Back. Image from Wikimedia. In writing about the history,...
Apr 14, 202311 min read


Tales from Development Hell: A Confederacy of Dunces
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...
Mar 30, 20239 min read


An Alternate History of Horror IX: Seduction of the Innocent
By Ryan Fleming In the present day and for most of their history, comic books have been synonymous with the superhero genre. The genre...
Mar 22, 202314 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Superman Lives
By Ryan Fleming In popular culture there are some works that have managed to become famous despite never happening at all. Projects can...
Mar 17, 20238 min read


An Alternate History of Horror VIII: The Destroyer of Worlds
By Ryan Fleming On 15th August 1945 the surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Emperor Hirohito, in effect bringing the Second...
Mar 6, 202316 min read


An Alternate History of Horror VII: Lights Out
By Ryan Fleming This series has so far looked at the development of the horror genre largely in its literary and cinematic form. This...
Feb 20, 202314 min read


An Alternate History of Horror VI: Hollywood Undead
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...
Feb 6, 202317 min read


An Alternate History of Horror V: Pulp Fiction
By Ryan Fleming In our look at Victorian vampires in an earlier article of this series, we discussed the penny dreadfuls. Those cheap,...
Jan 23, 202316 min read
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