Back in 2024, I was fortunate enough to review Christopher Michael’s original iteration of Tomb of the Black Pharaoh, and, thinking back, I’m still amazed at how he synthesised Lovecraftian cosmic horror, World War II espionage, and psychological dread into one unputdownable book. That read introduced us to scholar-turned-OSS operative Robert B. Danforth as he…
There’s something deeply unsettling about the black-eyed children, and it has less to do with what they are and more to do with what they almost are. They’re polite. Well-mannered. Soft-spoken. They usually appear in pairs, somewhere around the ages of six to sixteen, and they always seem to be in need of help. One…
In horror fiction, mirrors are rarely neutral. They’re portals, tools of self-confrontation, and sometimes literal gates to the other side. But for female characters, mirrors hold a special kind of terror — not just supernatural, but societal. In a world where the way women look is both currency and curse, the mirror becomes less of…
