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𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙤 𝙁𝙪𝙡𝙘𝙞, 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧: 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜

EventsApril 22, 20260Comments

𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙤 𝙁𝙪𝙡𝙘𝙞, 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧: 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 Owing to often limited budgets, tight production schedules, and the genres and subgenres he explored, the work of 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗰𝗶 (1927-1996) was long overlooked by critics and academics. For decades, Fulci was regarded, at best, as a resourceful craftsman. Nevertheless,…

launch of supernatural horror graphic novel Dance of Death with an exhibition on the 1st of May

EventsApril 16, 20260Comments

Synopsis: 1518. A comet burns across the sky above the City of Crossroads - an omen for what shall befall it. Days later, a woman dances in the streets... and cannot stop. Crowds gather. Frenzy spreads. Bodies convulse. What starts as a sideshow becomes a plague that brings the city to its knees. Magdalena Troffea,…

Almanacco dell’orrore popolare – Folk Horror Italian Style: A ground-breaking book edited by Fabio Camilletti and Fabrizio Foni

Book, NewsJune 9, 20210Comments

Whereas Anglo-American culture linguistically distinguishes between ‘folk’ and ‘pop’, the Italian language relies in both cases on the word ‘popolare’. Such an ambivalence says a lot in itself. British (and by extension, partly also American) collective imagination originally made use of ‘folk’, a term of Germanic origin, to refer to secluded and mostly pagan rural…

Vampirella, The Queen Of Comics’ Bad Girls Gets An Unauthorized Biography

Comics, NewsFebruary 24, 20200Comments

In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon; over 300,000 music lovers flooded into a farm outside Woodstock, NY for the ultimate concert; the Beatles recorded their final album. And crashing to Earth aboard a damaged spacecraft was a refugee from the distant planet Drakulon, whose inhabitants had drunk from…

‘The Other Side: Horror – Gothic – Science Fiction’ – Exhibition

EventsJuly 4, 20180Comments

Being a Thrilling and Wondrous Exhibition of Objects Futuristic, Uncanny, Weird, and Disquieting 18th June – 16th December 2018 The Storm Petrel Foundation, 79 Triq San Anton, Attard info@stormpetrelfoundation.org www.stormpetrelfoundation.org ‘The Other Side’ is a rich and curious exhibition indeed, featuring books, magazines, pressbooks, comic books, graphic novels, original comic-book art, movie posters and much…

MONSTERELLA, an action/adventure/horror/sci-fi anthology by Hangman Comics

NewsApril 5, 20170Comments

MONSTERELLA, an action/adventure/horror/sci-fi anthology inspired by the classic “Vampirella” and “2000 AD” magazines of the 1970’s by Canadian publisher Hangman Comics. A Monsterellla kickstarter was launched March 29th, 2017 to raise the funds necessary to get the book into print. Three and a half hours after it’s launch it was successfully funded and backers continue…