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EvanPurcell

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Evan is an American currently living in the middle of Kazakhstan. It's a beautiful place, but they don't believe in Halloween, which is why he keeps returning to websites like HL. He's an English and drama teacher, but he also writes YA adventure books.

[Guest Posts]

The Importance of Kid-Horror

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Kids in the ’50s gobbled up the gruesome morality tales of EC comics. These stories thrilled a generation with their depictions of terrible people getting punished for doing terrible things. They were fun, beautifully drawn… and wildly inappropriate, so much so that the entire comic book industry was forced to water everything down for decades …

[Reviews]

The Best/Worst Horror Movie Hybrid

| · 3 min read

I’ve seen space marines fight a giant spider/scientist in Leprechaun 4. I’ve seen pianos eat giggling Japanese women in Hausu. I’ve seen people get terrorized by slugs, rabbits, exploding canaries, and vegetarian goblins. I say all this to preface the fact that, without a doubt, 1964’s Face of the Screaming Werewolf is the strangest, most …