COLIN FLEMING

is the author of eight books, including the story collection, If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope, a 33 1/3 volume on Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, Meatheads Say the Realest Things: A Satirical (Short) Novel of the Last Bro, and a book about 1951’s Scrooge as the ultimate horror film. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, Cineaste, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, JazzTimes, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and many other venues. He’s completing a book called And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. His website is colinfleminglit.com, where he maintains the Many Moments More journal, which, at 2.7 million words and counting as of autumn 2023, is the longest sustained work of literature in history.

It’s a lovely day, and there you are motoring with your lady on the way back to your laboratory, where you keep hunks of flesh alive...

February 18, 2025

Blue Beard is a glutton. He likes food and female orifices, in that order, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a major thing for the latter in this...

February 16, 2025

Love—or what we call love—produces a lot of lip service, which isn’t a reference to kissing. We proclaim our dedication to another...

February 13, 2025

Home-viewing fright films for Valentine’s Day with the loving Cupid seal of approval.

February 10, 2025

For all of Hammer’s reliance on its tried-and-true monsters, the studio did a fair amount of foraying. Hammer horror could take myriad forms beyond...

December 31, 2024

No one who made 1972’s Silent Night, Bloody Night had much of a clue what the story was supposed to be, which sounds like...

December 28, 2024

In theory—well, maybe—one is not supposed to laugh while watching the events of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) unfold, but damn...

December 25, 2024

There are horror movies in which Christmas is present, as if incidentally, and there are horror movies in which Christmas is the crux.

December 23, 2024

Well, here we have quite the farrago: Tod Browning’s penultimate film, Lionel Barrymore in drag, enslavement, telekinesis, paralysis...

December 20, 2024

We speak of unreliable narrators, but what of an unreliable film? That is, a movie that purports to tell one story but may in truth be...

November 10, 2024

There are three prevailing mindsets behind horror-movie sequels. The most typical goes something like...

November 4, 2024

To love Hammer horror films is to love the look of them and probably also have an abiding affection for the fall, given that it always...

October 28, 2024

People who peruse vintage TV programming schedules are used to seeing horror movies billed as something other than “horror,” as if...

October 24, 2024

The rub for makers of American movie horror through the bulk of the 1950s was to make...

October 19, 2024

Movies ghoulishly suited for imaginative in-house Halloween viewing.

October 15, 2024

The person-changing experience of walking in on Tod Browning’s Dracula.

June 19, 2024

Walpurgis Night and the spell cast by 1960’s The City of the Dead.

April 30, 2024

A break from traditional Christmas fare with 1945’s Strange Confession, and the coming together of assorted heads.

December 22, 2023

The holiday-enlivened monster that is Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

October 31, 2023

Walpurgis Night and the spell cast by 1960’s The City of the Dead.

April 30, 2024

A break from traditional Christmas fare with 1945’s Strange Confession, and the coming together of assorted heads.

December 22, 2023

Katie Small

is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.