Author Predator In Chief / Ghost Writer

Duane Jones is born in New York City in 1937. Though he only appeared in a handful of films, he made cinematic history as the first African-American star of a horror movie in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. A ...

The first issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine hits newsstands in 1958. Edited by Forrest J Ackerman and featuring lots of photos and vivid artwork, the highly influential publication covered the entir...

James Carreras is born in Brentford, Middlesex, England in 1909. The producer served as chairman of Hammer Films from 1949 to 1980, when the studio became an iconic maker of horror, including reviving the Frank...

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the Evening Mirror in 1845. The classic poem is hugely influential, and has been imitated and parodied, referenced or adapted in dozens of radio and TV shows and m...

Murderer William Burke is hanged in 1829 for his role in the Burke & Hare body snatcher murders in Edinburgh, Scotland. The crowd is estimated to be as large as 25,000 people. The facts and legend of the mu...

The Turn of the Screw is published in its first installment in Collier’s Weekly in 1898. Written by Henry James, the gothic ghost novella would complete its serialization in April and becomes a classic that is ...