Dark Horror Tales

  Do not go out after dark. Especially in the woods.  M.Night Shyamalan’s newest feature is here but this time he is only producing. Helming THE WATCHERS is his daughter Ishana Shyamalan.  The Watchers is based on the 2021 novel of the same name, and written by A.M. Shine.  The novel was about a young woman called Mina, whose car breaks down on her way to deliver a parrot. Since she is in the woods, a woman called Madeline, pulls her inside a cabin. Inside, she finds three more strangers, and is warned not to go out in the dark as there are creatures outside that could kill them.  Eventually Mina, along with the others find out that them being in a cabin is a way for them and a Professor to safely study the creatures outside that are called the Watchers.  The Professor helps them escape, and after a few casualties, Mina finds her way to the Professor’s office where she is told to destroy his study. Over there, she finds out that Madeline is his wife although she supposedly died years

  M.Night Shyamalan has done it again. He has once again made a movie that will make you sit at the edge of your seat while the twist that usually reveals itself toward the end, unwinds. The movie was based on Paul Tremblay’s novel THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD and of course, the movie ending differs from the novel.

  Excerpt from ALL THAT IS LEFT   There was only darkness around her. Misha had never been afraid of the dark. As a child she had always insisted that a game of hide and seek be played with the lights out whereas the other girls her age would deem the game as too frightening, especially when played in an abandoned house. In all of her seventeen years, Misha had never been afraid of anything, but waking up in pitch black when she was supposed to be home and in the safety of her room, was starting to unnerve her. She swallowed and blinked, hoping she would get used to her surroundings and figure out where she was. The last thing she remembered was walking out of the school gates, and searching for her boyfriend. She had asked his friends where he was and received hesitant replies. She noticed how they averted their eyes and the way they walked away while mumbling a feeble 'he must be around here, somewhere'. She should have known then and there that they were all part of the dece

  This week's Horror Book Pick is The Ghost is Clear: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (A Series of Midlife Curses) by A.A. Tomes. Published in 2021, the novel has been positively received by reviewers and is on the bestsellers list of Ghost Fiction and Magical Realism.

  A24 releases the final instalment of the X trilogy. Titled MaXXXine, the movie will show us the events after the first movie and what Maxine has been up to after escaping the psychopaths Pearl and her husband Howard.