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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,...

By Ryan Fleming Though horror literature took off in a form we recognise today during the 19th century, the art of horror storytelling...

By Ryan Fleming Last time, we stopped a completely random stranger on the street and asked them to name a stock character from horror...

By Ryan Fleming Stop a random person on the street and ask them to name a horror stock character, just the first one that comes to mind....

By Ryan Fleming Many of us have taken a holiday where the weather during the trip turned out to be less than desired. If you happen to be...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Ryan Fleming, a regular SLP author. Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. First...

By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming Nearly four decades after it was first released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial retains a special place in the memories of not...

By Ryan Fleming In 1966 US television viewers were first introduced to Star Trek. The voyages of the starship Enterprise on her five-year...

By Ryan Fleming 1969. A significant year in many respects. The year of the first manned Moon landing, the year of Woodstock, the year of...

By Ryan Fleming Sometimes an actor can become as famous for the roles they did not get as the ones they did. There are many such examples...

By Ryan Fleming Bond. Not as Bond. In these articles I have mentioned how nothing seemed to attract the eye of the producers of the Bond...