Legacy of the Marsten House By JESS PEACOCK Since the publication of his first novel Carrie in 1974, Stephen King has been a publishing and wider entertainment mainstay with a career that has experienced massive book sales, a body of work that has persevered through...
It Takes Many Forms: Horror as Resistance BY JESS PEACOCK (I recently had the honor of being invited to speak at the 2018 Salem Horror Fest in Salem, MA on the topic of the horror genre serving as an engine for resistance against systematic oppression. While I pulled...
Community Theater Set to Adapt Stephen King’s “One for the Road” BY JESS PEACOCK On October 17th in 1975, Doubleday Publishing released the novel ‘Salem’s Lot, Stephen King’s sophomore follow-up to the bestselling Carrie. ‘Salem’s Lot has proven to...
“Listen to the night, it’s deafening”: Celebrating 31 years of “Near Dark” BY JESS PEACOCK At the risk of coming across as some kind of horror hipster, Near Dark – which turns thirty-one this week – is not a film the casual horror...
“Darkness is our natural condition”: An Interview with author Douglas Cowan BY JESS PEACOCK In his 2008 book Sacred Terror, Douglas Cowan, a professor of religious studies at Renison University College in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, wrote, “…religiously...
