I love how as the sun starts to set the skies above my neighbourhood come alive with bats. It’s probably thanks to a couple of seemingly abandoned buildings in the vicinity, in which bats can roost during the daytime hours. If this is the case I hope these buildings remain untouched by development, ruined as
Year: 2014
Extraordinary Gentlepeople. Illustration by Daniela Attard As part of our ongoing run-up to Halloween, we invited Gothic scholar Conrad Aquilina to dissect Showtime’s popular Gothic panorama Penny Dreadful, aided along by illustrations by Schlock regular Daniela ‘iella’ Attard. by Conrad Aquilina Illustrations by Daniela Attard Nothing quite spells decadence, darkness, madness and excess than the Victorian
As we continue to Get Grisly for the month of Halloween, Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone delves into the horrific-but-hilarious world of ‘splatstick’. Think Looney Tunes, with an extra topping of exposed viscera. * I’ve always felt there are very strong grounds for intersections between horror and comedy – both flirt with the ‘subversive’, both stretch
As part of our horror-friendly coverage for the month of Halloween, we present a publisher profile by Simon Marshall-Smith, who speaks to us about the spooky predilections of his own literary house of horrors: Spectral Press, who have just released the Spectral Book of Horror Stories, edited by fellow Schlock Talker Mark Morris. Spectral Press was
Did you know I thought I got rid of the Schlock hivemind? I’m sure you didn’t, but in any case its rumbling as it awoke from its aestivation got to me, and now I’m back at the POP CULTURE DESTRUCTION game. Some new faces get to join the fun – and Schlock-brand podcasts make a
Illustration by Nico Grimm by Stanley M Noah Illustration by Nico Grimm can be seen if you believe they are there. It’s the long traveled deep wheeled road that got me here. Near darkness followed like a spell, and the outlined view was found the old house with yellow lit windows, flickering from inside. In
Illustration by Daniela Attard by Anna Tambour Illustration by Daniela Attard Originally published in Subterranean, Issue #7 (2007). Winner of the 2007 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story Honoré Barrot, the bijoutier, as he was called, was the most uncelebrated of his trade and proud of it, as his life depended upon secrets
Illustration by Thom Cuschieri by Robin Wyatt Dunn Illustration by Thomas Cuschieri This is a death sentence. I am writing it myself. The narrative of a slave, written by himself! Written by himself, himself, himself, himself – I will never get outside the house. I have made peace with it. To you who I love:
‘Anna Tambour, Self-portrait, 2014’ Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, and recently regaled with a hardback edition courtesy of the inimitable – and Schlock-friendly – Chomu Press, Anna Tambour’s Crandolin was one of Schlock’s favourite novels of the past couple of years. So we just had to track down the author of this culinary-themed picaresque fable,
In a Schlock first, author Anna Tambour and the magazine’s co-editor Teodor Reljic talk shop about their latest novels: in Tambour’s case, the sophomore release Crandolin, and Reljic’s debut novel, Two. * Teodor Reljic: There is a mad energy to Crandolin which almost makes one feel as though it may have been written in one