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Horror Bites: The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

Horror Bites: The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

March 25, 2023 Ziggy Kinsella

The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires is a 1974 horror movie directed by Roy Ward Baker, and is considered a unique fusion of British Gothic horror and Hong Kong Kung Fu.

Horror Bites: The Heaven’s Gate Cult

Horror Bites: The Heaven’s Gate Cult

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 Ziggy Kinsella

The Heaven’s Gate cult was a religious group founded in the 1970s by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. The group entertained a mixture of Christian, New Age, and UFO-related beliefs, and claimed that they were extra-terrestrial beings who were sent to Earth to help people evolve spiritually.

Horror Bites: The Last Vampire by T M Wright

Horror Bites: The Last Vampire by T M Wright

March 3, 2023September 21, 2023 Ziggy Kinsella

There have been literally 100s and 100s of books written about vampires over the decades, some good, some pretty dreadful. One that seems to have gotten lost in the mists of times is T M Wrights The Last Vampire which I came across in my bookcase recently and which I hadn’t read in a while. Written in 1991, it’s a…Read More

Horror Bites: H P Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror

Horror Bites: H P Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror

February 27, 2023March 2, 2023 Ziggy Kinsella

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, commonly known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author, poet, and essayist known for his works of horror fiction. Born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft. His father died in 1898, and his mother suffered a nervous breakdown, leading Lovecraft to…Read More

Horror Bites: Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

Horror Bites: Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Ziggy Kinsella

Carrion Comfort is a novel by Dan Simmons, published in 1989. The plot revolves around a group of people with psychic abilities, known as mind vampires, who are able to control others and use them for their own purposes.

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