Category Archives: Horror

Happy Kiss a Ginger Day 2023!

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Steven

According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, today is International Kiss a Ginger Day, a holiday created in 2009 as a “karmic counter event” intended to offset negative comments made about fiery-haired people (e.g., that gingers have no souls, that … Continue reading →

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Welcome to StarWarp Concepts!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Steven

StarWarp Concepts—I’ll admit it’s not exactly the kind of name you’d expect for a publishing company that mostly specializes in tales of horror and dark urban fantasy, but then we’ve always had that penchant for making unexpected (and sometimes unusual) … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Supernatural Superheroes Found in the Wild

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Steven

Every now and then, I like to drop by comic shops in the New York City area to see what’s on the shelves, and to paw through the boxes of discounted back issues in search of titles from the 1980s … Continue reading →

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Happy Love Your Red Hair Day 2022!

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Steven

Redheads unite! Today is National Love Your Red Hair Day, so get out there and celebrate! According to the National Day Calendar, this annual event was created in 2015 by Adrienne and Stephanie Vendetti, cofounders of the beauty site How to … Continue reading →

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Halloween Movie Offerings Examined at Pandora Zwieback Blog

Posted on October 26, 2022 by Steven

Looking for something to watch this Spooky Season? In the mood for a horror movie marathon? Over at the Pandora Zwieback blog, this week I’m taking a look at what some of the cable channels are running for their Halloween programming … Continue reading →

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It Just Wouldn’t Be Halloween Without Michael Myers…

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Steven

To celebrate today’s release of Halloween Ends—the highly anticipated conclusion to the Jamie Lee Curtis–starring trilogy that began with 2018’s Halloween and continued with 2021’s Halloween Kills—we’ve dipped into the Bob Larkin Archives to present this haunting image: an ad Bob painted for TV … Continue reading →

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It’s National Comic Book Day 2022!

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Steven

Today is National Comic Book Day, an unofficial “holiday” that’s celebrated every year on this date…although no one seems to know why that is, or who exactly started the tradition. Nevertheless, if you’re thinking that the friendly fiends at StarWarp Concepts must have … Continue reading →

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Are You Ready for the Summer (Reading)?

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Steven

Staycation? Vacation? Whether you’re on the road or just hanging at home, today is the official start of the summer season (which ends September 23), and that means summer reading. And you know what would make for perfect reading this … Continue reading →

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The Headless Horseman to Ride Again

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Steven

It’s Monday the 13th, which seems like the perfect time to pass along the recent announcement that writer Washington Irving’s classic tale of the Headless Horseman, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is scheduled for an all-new screen adaptation courtesy of Paramount Pictures and writer/director … Continue reading →

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Happy 125th Anniversary, Count Dracula!

Posted on May 26, 2022 by Steven

Today is World Dracula Day: the annual celebration launched in 2012 by the Whitby Dracula Society 1897to mark the first publication of Bram Stoker’s seminal novel in 1897. What makes it even better is that it’s also the 125th anniversary of that … Continue reading →

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