Star Trek: Is Paramount selling Star Trek to another studio?
Does Paramount need to sell off Star Trek to save the company? This can mean either selling its products to another channel or selling the whole brand to another studio. How likely is that?
Holidays with ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’: “Christmas Means Nothing Without You”
“Anna and the Apocalypse” mixes together a lot of stuff—it’s a musical about high school students graduating throughout a zombie outbreak during the holidays. Listen to a Christmas song from the soundtrack…
James Lovegrove: Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon [Spotlight]
A Sherlock Holmes novel from the bestselling author of “The Age of Odin” and the Firefly novel “Big Damn Hero.” “There’s a literary tradition going back to Victorian times of equating Christmas with ghosts…”
Addams Family’s Christmas rituals
It might seem more normal to see the Addams Family celebrate Halloween, but the original series did have a Christmas episode. Watch clips from “Christmas with the Addams Family”…
Tananarive Due about being a Black horror author
The Literary Life Podcast talked with Tananarive Due about the scripted drama show Horror Noire, as well as about her latest novel, The Between. You can listen to the whole podcast interview here.
Nightmare Abbey 2 Scares Up More Great Terror Tales
The second issue of magazine Nightmare Abbey offers terror tales by writers like Steve Duffy, Helen Grant and David Surface, plus explores the impact of Theodore Sturgeon’s “It.”
Joe Hill: NOS4A2—is every day Christmas?
“I find most vampire novels soooooooooo disappointing…” The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Santa Claus vs The Devil
The 1959 Mexican fantasy film “Santa Claus” is a wildly interesting film that was apparently made by people who were only vaguely familiar with the Santa Claus tradition.
Brom: Krampus: The Yule Lord—“I love the idea of Krampus returning to reclaim Christmas”
Acclaimed author and artist Brom raised pulse rates with his grim reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. For an encore, he tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus.
Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas [Flashback]
The 1996 TV special The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas begins with Eddie feeling homesick. His dad decides a “good old Transylvanian Christmas” will put his son in the mood for the holidays.
RIP Kirstie Alley from Star Trek, Cheers
Actress Kirstie Alley (1951-2022), who began her film career in 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, has died following a battle with cancer. She was 71.
D.M. Guay: Hell for the Holidays [Spotlight]
This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like “Evil Dead” meets “Christmas Vacation.” The Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails.
Christopher Lee holiday song “Jingle Hell”
Every monster movie fan should know about Christopher Lee, who has appeared in lots of horror films. What you may have missed was his heavy metal Christmas songs.
Anne Rice wrote about Christmas with the werewolf
It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. “It was meant to be a Christmas book,” Rice said. “I thought, 'I want to do Christmas with the werewolf.'“
Charlaine Harris: Complete Gunnie Rose series
The author of the Southern Vampire Sookie Stackhouse series has returned to bookshelves with the latest title in her Gunnie Rose series. Find out info on all the books in the whole series.
Charlaine Harris Is Still Writing: New book ‘The Serpent in Heaven’
What is Charlaine Harris writing now? The author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels has a brand-new book. Find out more, including whether she'll be connecting with readers.
Santa vs Mercenaries in ‘Violent Night’— “This could be really special”
“Time for some season’s beatings…” Violent Night star David Harbour was initially nervous about the concept of a “Santa Claus action movie”—until the filmmakers convinced him.
10 Sci-Fi Versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Check out this article for some behind-the-scenes info about Dickens writing this classic, and enjoy a list of sci-fi and fantasy TV shows that have adapted the story for themselves.
Who WROTE the Vampire Diaries books? Don’t believe the name on the cover…
Who wrote the Vampire Diaries books? And when did the Vampire Diaries books come out? The novels were written by more than one person, and we don’t even know all the names.
Vampire Diaries: Why creator L.J. Smith writes strong female characters
The Vampire Diaries is a YA vampire fiction series of novels created by L.J. Smith. The author explains why her fiction includes strong female characters…