Explanation is the Death of Horror

Hellboy: House of the Living Dead,  written by Mike Mignola; illustrated by Richard Corben (2011): Fun original graphic novel set during H...

Cold Hand In Mine: Strange Stories (1977) by Robert Aickman, containing the following stories: "The Swords" (1969): A retrospe...

Scream Blacula Scream (1973): written by Joan Torres, Raymond Koenig, and Maurice Jules; directed by Bob Kelljan; starring William Marsha...

30 Days of Night (2007): adapted from the Steve Niles/Ben Templesmith comic book by Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie, and Brian Nelson; direct...

Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper: Volume 3 (2013) by Basil Copper, edited by Stephen Jones. The t...

Shadow of the Vampire (2000): written by Steven Katz; directed by E. Elias Merhige; starring Willem Dafoe ('Max Schreck'), John M...

Dracula (1931): adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from the play by Garrett Fort adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker; dir...

What We Do In The Shadows : written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi; starring Jemaine Clement (Vladislav), Taika Waititi...

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954): Matheson's first novel begat Night of the Living Dead which begat pretty much every zombie a...

Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski (1988): Babylon 5 creator  and long-time Spider-man writer J. Michael Straczynski has also writte...

Blacula : written by Joan Torres and Raymond Koenig; directed by William Cain; starring William Marshall (Blacula/Mamuwalde), Vonetta McGe...

The Horror of Dracula (a.k.a. Dracula ): adapted by Jimmy Sangster from the novel by Bram Stoker; directed by Terence Fisher; starring Pe...

The Strain: Book I of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan (2009): Apparently, the new F/X series based on this vampi...

I, Vampire : written by J.M. DeMatteis, Bruce Jones, Dan Myshkin, Gary Cohn, and Mike Barr; illustrated by Tom Sutton, Paris Cullins, Joe Ku...

Reassuring Tales  (2006) by T.E.D. Klein, containing the following stories: Camera Shy (1988); Growing Things (1999); Curtains for Nat Cr...

Let Me In (aka Let the Right One In ) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated from the original Swedish by Ebba Segerberg (2004): Well, if ...

The Twelve by Justin Cronin (2012): Cronin's first book in his epic-apocalyptic-science-fantasy-vampire trilogy, The Passage (2010), w...

'Salem's Lot : adapted by Peter Filardi from the novel by Stephen King; directed by Mikael Salomon; starring Rob Lowe (Ben Mears), A...

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (1975): Stephen King's second published novel did at least two new things I can think of: it colli...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2011): edited by Stephen Jones (2012) containing Ramsey Campbell - Holding The Light Christopher F...