Category: Articles
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Giallo Journey: Murder, Mayhem, and Masterpieces
Part 1: What Is Giallo? A Fan’s Introduction A Vivid Giallo MomentThe camera pans down a darkened alleyway, the neon lights reflecting off rain-slick cobblestones. A shadow moves—a gloved hand, black leather gripping a blade that glints in the dim light. Footsteps echo in the still night as the figure advances, the tension building with…
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Grumpy Goat’s Top 10 Horror Films of 2024
Another year, another batch of horror flicks that somehow manage to both delight and frustrate the hell out of us. 2024 served up a smorgasbord of chilling, bloody, and occasionally head-scratching offerings—some were masterpieces, others… well, not so much. But we don’t have time for those, do we? We’re here to talk about the good…
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Get Off My Lawn, You Damn Kids! – A Grumpy Old Man’s Take
Jump Scares: The Lazy Trick That Keeps Getting Overused Ah, jump scares—the cheap party trick of horror movies. It’s like the horror genre’s version of a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Every time you hear that ominous silence followed by a sudden noise or visual, you can practically hear the filmmakers giggling…
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Introducing…Grumpy Goat!
Dark bleatings, my glorious tribe. We’re kicking off 2025 in the most delightful way possible – with a new goat added to the tribe! Since Jolly Goat and Angry Goat swanned off, it’s just been little old me – your tireless Goat Leader – tending to the grass and growing the flowers here at Happy…
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Damnation: The Gothic Game – Board Game
Dark bleatings, my damned tribe! If you follow me on YouTube, you might have seen my recent creator interview with Frazer Lee (author of Damnation: The Gothic Game) and Kris Rees (creator of Damnation, the game Frazer’s book is a novelisation of). If you missed it, you can catch up with it HERE. Anyway, what…
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Horror on Ice: Top 5 Frozen Horror Stories
Post by Alex Davis, a good friend to the goats As we push from Autumn to Winter, we move into peak horror season – cold air, nights drawing in and who knows what rustling around in the dark? Not to mention the ever-popular tradition of the festive ghost story. And to mark the occasion, WINTER…
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ANOTHER 10 Great Contemporary Female Horror Authors
Dark bleatings, my dearest tribe! I’m back with another list of brilliant female horror authors that are currently publishing. As stated in my first post, I’m only including authors who are alive and still writing (because these types of lists usually use a lot of spaces for well-deserving authors, but that are unfortunately no longer…
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5 Indie Horror Books – Mini-Reviews and Recommendations!
Dark bleatings, my curious, book-devouring tribe. I’ve never written a list or article like this one before, and thought it would be fun! I usually go ahead and write individual book reviews, but each of these has something a bit unique going on, so I thought I’d introduce you to them this way instead. For…
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My Top 15 Short Horror Stories
Dark bleatings, my succinct tribe! I talk a lot about novels, collections, and authors, so I thought it might be fun to make a list of my favourite short horror stories. I have learned things. Dark things. Firstly, it’s REALLY hard to make a short list of my favourite shorts, and put them in any…
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My Top 10 Horror Vampire Novels
Dark bleatings, my toothy tribe! For those of you who are like me, longing for scarier vampire stories, I have taken the liberty of compiling this list of some of my favourites for you. You wont find entries like The Sookie Stackhouse novels here – though I do enjoy sexy vampires as much as the…
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