6/19/26
SILVERWOOD: THE DOOR is coming back. Details soon…
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The great THE HORROR SHOW WITH BRIAN KEENE migration continues here. The file for episode 83, with Gene O’Neill and Michael Bailey, is damaged, so I’ll have to upload the back-up, which is currently on a detachable hard drive in an airtight container in a storage unit in West Virginia. And episode 168, with Lynne Hansen, Shelly Rosamilia, and Armand Rosamilia, is too long to host here on the site, so I have it temporarily hosted on Patreon (for free) until I get a chance to split it in two. But otherwise, the archives are now up to episode 173 in full, with assorted later episodes also available. I suspect the entire series should be archived here in full by the end of next week.
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DC Comics continues to woo both readers and creators with a new golden age, while Marvel is late paying some of their creators. Latest example.
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The Pentagon used Twitter’s GrokAI to launch more than 2,000 missiles at targets in Iran, allegedly including that girl’s school in which 175 civilians were killed.
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Women In Horror Year: Day 62
Dread In The Beast by Charlee Jacob
Stuffed full of the gruesome and horrible, and taken from the mythologies and histories of humankind, Dread In The Beast follows the trail of the Mother Spirit of the worst that the world is capable of producing. From the catacombs of ancient Rome where a blasphemous sect twisted the message of the early Christians—to modern America with its obsession with violence, deities and saints and the reincarnations of beasts battle over sublime and profane, where the very reasons for existence for us all may lie in the unthinkable.
Claimed by Edward Lee as one of his favorite novels of all time, Charlee Jacob’s Dread In The Beast is a masterwork of surrealism, werid fiction, cosmic horror, and extreme horror — the absolute pinnacle of her impressive bibliography, showcasing everything she did best. Originally published as a novella (and included in a short story collection with the same title), it was expanded into a novel and went on to win the 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It used to confound reviewers and booksellers, who weren’t sure how to classify or market it. “Is it Extreme Horror?” Yes. Probably one of the most extreme of that era. “Is it Weird Fiction or is it Cosmic Horror?” Yes. “Wait… this read like Literary Fiction. Are you sure this is horror?” Also yes. It contains one of the most beautiful, breathtaking descriptions of being buried alive under a pile of feces which has since fossilized that you will ever read. From an archeological dig in Iran to the American backwoods squalor of the remnants of a hippie commune, it is global in both scope and atrocities, tackling multiple themes (some of which Charlee would go on to tackle again in Haunter and Soma).
Charlee Jacob was arguably one of the greatest of all time, as far as extreme horror writers go, but she transcended the genre in a way that no one before her — or since her — has ever come close to. If you read only one work by her, it should be this one. Available in paperback and eBook from Crossroad Press.
