October is one of my favorite months and that’s partly due to Halloween and the increased interest in the horror genre. From books to movies to everything in between, in October I’m ready for a good scare. Since folks are typic...

What was your first time like? Relax, I’ll go first to make things easier. I was eleven and staying over at a friend’s house for the night. That was the night I enjoyed my first horror movie – Salem’s Lot. My buddy and I were w...

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...