In addition to his work at October Country, Blu Gilliand provides news, reviews and interviews for a variety of online publications. Check here often for links to articles appearing outside of October Country.
2013
Kealan Patrick Burke gets camp-y with The Tent
FEARnet.com
May 20, 2013
Douglas Warrick Breaks Exciting New Ground with Plow the Bones
FEARnet.com
May 14, 2013
Interview: Lee Thompson
Horror World
May 14, 2013
Review: Peter Cushing: A Life in Film by David Miller
Ain’t It Cool News
May 10, 2013
Book Review: What Makes You Die by Tom Piccirilli
FEARnet.com
May 8, 2013
More Morton: Interview with Shane Morton on the Southern horror scene, monster wrestling and Halloween II
FEARnet.com
May 6, 2013
Hell’s Designer: An Interview with Shane Morton
FEARnet.com
April 30, 2013
Clive Barker in Comics, Part Three: Raising “Hell” at Marvel
FEARnet.com
April 23, 2013
Interview: Chris Morey of Dark Regions Press
Horror World
April 17, 2013
Hell on Wheels: Joe Hill’s Career Turns a Corner with NOS4A2
FEARnet.com
April 16, 2013
McCammon stakes claim on vampire genre with I Travel By Night
FEARnet.com
April 8, 2013
Drug-Crazed Bigfoot Holes Up in Remote Cabin!
FEARnet.com
April 1, 2013
R.I.P. to Three Giants of the Genre
FEARnet.com
March 26, 2013
Explore Your Own Dark Faith with Apex’s Anthology Sequel Dark Faith: Invocations
FEARnet.com
March 19, 2013
Review: Hell Comes to Hollywood edited by Eric Miller
Ain’t It Cool News
March 15, 2013
Clive Barker in Comics, Part Two: Eclipse and the Books of Blood
FEARnet.com
March 11, 2013
Interview: Elizabeth Massie
Horror World
March 2013
Mark Miller on creating a New Genesis with Clive Barker
Fearnet.com
March 4, 2013
Dead Space Translates Well from Consoles to Comics
FEARnet.com
February 26, 2013
Clive Barker in Comics, Part One: Tapping the Vein
FEARnet.com
February 19, 2013
A Wicked Good Talk with James Newman
FEARnet.com
February 11, 2013
James Newman’s Novel is Wicked Good Fun
FEARnet.com
February 7, 2013
Interview: Jason Brock
Horror World
February 2013
Tom Piccirilli scales new Walls, reaches new heights in latest novella
FEARnet.com
January 28, 2013
Coldbrook Unites Sci-fi and Horror in Out-of-This-World Zombie Tale
FEARnet.com
January 22, 2013
Deadlines: A Master Class in Horror: Prime Evil
White Cat Publications
January 20, 2013
Spread the Gospel of the Pale Preachers
FEARnet.com
January 15, 2013
Review: The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book (Revised & Updated)
FEARnet.com
January 8, 2013
Doctors, Vampires and Preachers, Oh My! The Most Anticipated Reads of 2013
FEARnet.com
January 1, 2013
2012
Sherlock Holmes and Dracula: A Match Made in Hell
FEARnet.com
December 26, 2012
The Best Reads of 2012
FEARnet.com
December 25, 2012
Don’t turn a Blind Eye to Eric A. Jackson’s novella
FEARnet.com
December 17, 2012
Review: It Follows by Joe Bannerman
Ain’t It Cool News
December 14, 2012
Charles Burns burrows deep into The Hive
FEARnet.com
December 11, 2012
Blurring the lines of reality in The Buffalo Hunter
FEARnet.com
December 4, 2012
Adam Cesare on the Video Nasties behind Video Night
FEARnet.com
November 28, 2012
The Visceral Thrill Ride of Video Night
FEARnet.com
November 19, 2012
Reviewed: The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
White Cat Magazine
November 18, 2012
Hellbender finds magic and murder in the mountains
FEARnet.com
November 15, 2012
The Dark doesn’t quite make it into the light
FEARnet.com
November 6, 2012
Mountain Living (and Dying) Isn’t Easy in Appalachian Undead
FEARnet.com
November 1, 2012
Puppet Masters Golden and Mignola Return with a Potent New Novella
FEARnet.com
October 22, 2012
Deadlines: Fall brings a bounty of new books
White Cat Magazine
October 19, 2012
I’m Not Sam continues the compelling partnership of Ketchum and McKee
FEARnet.com
October 16, 2012
Nightmare Magazine a dream come true for genre fans
FEARnet.com
October 8, 2012
Scratch: B-movie material from an A-list talent
FEARnet.com
October 2, 2012
Interview: Dacre Stoker
Horror World
October 1, 2012
Book Review: The Back of Beyond by Alan Peter Ryan
FEARnet.com
September 24, 2012
Brian Keene’s Alone – Quietly Terrifying
FEARnet.com
September 18, 2012
Deadlines: A Master Class in Horror: Dark Forces
White Cat Magazine
August 16, 2012
Review: Tyler’s Third Act by Mick Garris
FEARnet.com
September 10, 2012
Review: Monster Town by Garrett Vander Leun
Ain’t It Cool News
September 7, 2012
Interview: David Niall Wilson
Horror World
September 2012
Small Press Spotlight: Apex Publications
FEARnet.com
September 3, 2012
Review: The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter
White Cat Magazine
August 27, 2012
The Horror of James A. Moore’s Homestead
FEARnet.com
August 27, 2012
Dueling Minds: One Painting, Six Authors, One Amazing Collection
FEARnet.com
August 20, 2012
Small Press Spotlight: Subterranean Press
FEARnet.com
August 13, 2012
Writers You Should Be Reading: Gary Braunbeck
FEARnet.com
August 6, 2012
Review: The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli
White Cat Magazine
August 2, 2012
Reboots, Remakes…Rewrites?
FEARnet.com
August 1, 2012
Characters Add Punch to Brutal This Dark Earth
FEARnet.com
July 23, 2012
Book Review: Die, You Bastard, Die! by Jan Kozlowski
FEARnet.com
July 17, 2012
Interview: Justin Beahm on Halloween: The Complete Authorized History
Ain’t It Cool News
July 12, 2012
Horror comes full Circle in Bentley Little’s latest
FEARnet.com
July 10, 2012
Interview: Lee Thomas
Horror World
July 10, 2012
Deadlines: An Interview with Tom Piccirilli
White Cat Magazine
July 10, 2012
Deadlines: Size Matters
White Cat Magazine
June 28, 2012
A Special Edition Wish List
FEARnet.com
June 26, 2012
Old-world Horrors Abound in McCammon’s The Providence Rider
FEARnet.com
June 25, 2012
Interview: Robert McCammon
Horror World
June 15, 2012
A (Last) Day in the Life of a Cult: Eric Shapiro’s The Devoted
FEARnet.com
June 12, 2012
Interview: Rocky Wood
Horror World
June 5, 2012
Thomas produces lean, powerful story in Torn
FEARnet.com
June 5, 2012
Mignola and Golden find pulp perfection in Joe Golem and the Drowning City
FEARnet.com
May 30, 2012
Quiet Horror Thrives in House of Quiet Madness
FEARnet.com
May 22, 2012
Deadlines: To Be Continued….?
White Cat Magazine
May 15, 2012
Adams, Creeping Hemlock Team Up to Kickstart New Horror Magazine
FEARnet.com
May 15, 2012
Hollywood Loves Comics – So Why Are Horror Comics Ignored?
FEARnet.com
May 8, 2012
Interview: Ben Larken
Horror World
May 7, 2012
Review: Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
White Cat Magazine
May 2, 2012
Tim Lebbon invites you to take another look at The Cabin in the Woods
FEARnet.com
May 1, 2012
Review: Demonic and Other Tales by Garon Cockrell
Aint’ It Cool News
April 27, 2012
Adam Cesare’s Tribesmen: A debut with guts
FEARnet.com
April 24, 2012
Review: Reanimated Americans by Martin Mundt
FEARnet.com
April 17, 2012
The Best in Behind-the-Scenes Books
FEARnet.com
April 10, 2012
Review: The Sorrows by Jonathan Janz
FEARnet.com
April 3, 2012
Review: Screamplays edited by Richard Chizmar and Martin H. Greenberg
Ain’t It Cool News
March 26, 2012
Review: It’s For You by Keith Minnion
FEARnet.com
March 19, 2012
Interview: John Skipp
FEARnet.com
March 13, 2012
Interview: Ben Marcus
Horror World
March 2012
“Review: ‘Joe Golem and the Copper Girl’ by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden”
FEARnet.com
March 5, 2012
Review: The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
Ain’t It Cool News
March 2, 2012
“You haven’t read _____?!?!”
FEARnet.com
February 28, 2012
“Spring Reading Roundup”
FEARnet.com
February 23, 2012
“Clive Barker: An Appreciation”
FEARnet.com
February 13, 2012
“Interview: John Pelan on The Century’s Best Horror Fiction (Part 2)”
FEARnet.com
February 8, 2012
“Interview: John Pelan on The Century’s Best Horror Fiction (Part 1)”
FEARnet.com
February 7, 2012
“Review: The Crossing: A Zombie Novella by Joe McKinney”
FEARnet.com
January 30, 2012
“Small Press Spotlight: Thunderstorm Books”
FEARnet.com
January 24, 2012
“Review: Horror Library Volume 4 edited by R.J. Cavender”
FEARnet.com
January 18, 2012
Interview: Linda Addison
Horror World
January 2012
“Writers You Should Be Reading: Norman Partridge”
FEARnet.com
January 10, 2012
“Future Shocks: Coming in 2012″
FEARnet.com
January 3, 2012
Review: Timber Gray by Ronald Kelly
White Cat Publications
January 2, 2012
Review: Smoke & Mirrors edited by Richard Chizmar
White Cat Publications
January 2, 2012
2011
“New eBook reader? Here’s where to start.”
FEARnet.com
December 30, 2011
“Interview: Brian James Freeman on It: The 25th Anniversary Special Edition”
FEARnet.com
December 23, 2011
“Review: The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn”
FEARnet.com
December 13, 2011
Interview: Mort Castle
Horror World
December 2011
“Writers You Should Be Reading: Kealan Patrick Burke”
FEARnet.com
December 5, 2011
“Book Review: The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners edited by Joe R. Lansdale”
FEARnet.com
November 29, 2011
“Some Things to be Thankful For”
FEARnet.com
November 22, 2011
“A Literary Wish List”
FEARnet.com
November 15, 2011
“Book Review: Christmas with the Dead by Joe R. Lansdale”
FEARnet.com
November 8, 2011
“Rise Up and Be Counted: The Zombie Census is Here”
FEARnet.com
November 1, 2011
“No Tricks, Just Treats in these Halloween Reads”
FEARnet.com
October 25, 2011
“Small Press Spotlight: Deadite Press”
FEARnet.com
October 18, 2011
“Book Sequels: To Be, Or Not 2 Be”
FEARnet.com
October 11, 2011
Interview: John Shirley
Horror World
October 2011
“Could Baltimore’s Poe House Soon Be ‘Nevermore’?”
FEARnet.com
October 4, 2o11
“‘Zone One’ and ‘Dracula’ Limited + Cafe Doom Writing Contest”
FEARnet.com
September 27, 2011
“Writers You Should Be Reading: Tom Piccirilli”
FEARnet.com
September 20, 2011
“Small Press Spotlight: Creeping Hemlock Press”
FEARnet.com
September 12, 2011
“Samhain Publishing’s New Horror Slate”
FEARnet.com
September 5, 2011
Interview: Scott Sigler
Horror World
September 2011
Interview: William F. Nolan
Horror World
July 2011
Interview: Barbara Hambly
Horror World
June 2011
Interview: Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon
Horror World
May 2011
Review: Catching Hell by Greg Gifune
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 30, 2011
Review: They That Dwell in Dark Places by Daniel McGachey
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 13, 2011
Interview: Norman Prentiss
Horror World
March 2011
Interview: Ian Martin of Atomic Fez Publishing
Horror World
February 2011
2010
Review: Curse of the Full Moon edited by James Lowder
Dark Scribe Magazine
December 13, 2010
Review: The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
Dark Scribe Magazine
December 13, 2010
Interview: Matt Staggs
Horror World
December 2010
Interview: Nate Southard
Horror World
November 2010
Review: Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season by Norman Partridge
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 29, 2010
Review: Halloween: New Poems edited by Al Sarrantonio
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 29, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Tom Piccirilli on the Future
Examiner.com
October 21, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Tom Piccirilli on the Digital Age of Publishing
Examiner.com
October 20, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Tom Piccirilli on Writing Crime
Examiner.com
October 19, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Tom Piccirilli on His Early Days in Horror
Examiner.com
October 18, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Tom Piccirilli on Writing
Examiner.com
October 17, 2010
Review: Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 26, 2010
Review: Evolve edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 26, 2010
Review: Secretary of Dreams Volume Two by Stephen King and Glenn Chadbourne
Examiner.com
October 10, 2010
Interview: Horror World Conversation with F. Paul Wilson
Horrorworld.org
October 5, 2010
Interview: Horror World Conversation with Scott Nicholson
Horrorworld.org
October 5, 2010
Review: Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak
Dark Scribe Magazine
August 13, 2010
Interview: RJ and Julia Sevin of Creeping Hemlock Press
Horrorworld.org
August 2010
Review: He Stepped Through by Nate Southard
Dark Scribe Magazine
July 27, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge on the Future
Examiner.com
July 23, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge on Lesser Demons
Examiner.com
July 22, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge on Dark Harvest
Examiner.com
July 21, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge on Short Stories vs. Novels
Examiner.com
July 20, 2010
Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge on Writing
Examiner.com
July 19, 2010
Interview: Brian James Freeman discusses The Painted Darkness
Examiner.com
July 15, 2010
Interview: Horror World talks to Ellen Datlow
Horrorworld.org
June 2010
Review: When the Night Comes Down edited by Bill Breedlove
Dark Scribe Magazine
May 31, 2010
Interview: Talking Sparrow Rock with Nate Kenyon
Examiner.com
May 10, 2010
Interview: A Conversation with Roger Ma
Horrorworld.org
May 2010
Interview: Maurice Broaddus has Dark Faith
Examiner.com
April 27, 2010
Interview: Editor of the Night: A Chat with Bill Breedlove
Examiner.com
April 21, 2010
Review: Lesser Demons by Norm Partridge
Dark Scribe Magazine
April 11, 2010
Review: Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Dark Scribe Magazine
April 11, 2010
Interview: Norman Prentiss talks Invisible Fences
Examiner.com
April 6, 2010
Review: Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 31, 2010
Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 21, 2010
Review: Last Exit for the Lost by Tim Lebbon
Dark Scribe Magazine
February 21, 2010
Review: Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Vol. 3 edited by Angela Challis
Dark Scribe Magazine
February 15, 2010
Interview: Jonathan Maberry adapts The Wolfman
Examiner.com
February 2, 2010
Interview: Brock talks Bleeding Edge
Examiner.com
January 20, 2010
2009
Review: Futile Efforts by Tom Piccirilli
Dark Scribe Magazine
November 26, 2009
Interview: King’s Companion: An Interview with Bev Vincent
Examiner.com
October 7, 2009
Review: Hell Hollow by Ronald Kelly
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 22, 2009
Review: Personal Demons by Gregory Lamberson
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 17, 2009
Review: Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 17, 2009
Review: The Shimmer by David Morrell
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 16, 2009
Interview: D. Harlan Wilson
Dark Scribe Magazine
August 8, 2009
Review: Valley of the Dead by Dr. Kim Paffenroth
Dark Scribe Magazine
August 1, 2009
Interview: Ronald Kelly
Examiner.com
June 8, 2009
Review: The Advenures of Mr. Maximillian…by Clive Barker
Dark Scribe Magazine
May 18, 2009
Interview: Kim Paffenroth
Examiner.com
May 21, 2009
Interview: Victoria Blake of Underland Press
Dark Scribe Magazine
Ma7 18, 2009
Review: Midnight Grinding by Ronald Kelly
Dark Scribe Magazine
May 7, 2009
Review: The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot
Dark Scribe Magazine
April 11, 2009
Review: Last Days by Brian Evenson
Dark Scribe Magazine
April 2, 2009
Review: Bone Soup by T.M. Wright
Dark Scribe Magazine
April 2, 2009
Review: Gunpowder by Joe Hill
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 9, 2009
Interview: R.J. and Julia Sevin of Creeping Hemlock Press
Dark Scribe Magazine
February 15, 2009
Review: Flesh Is Fleeting…Art Is Forever by Gary Braunbeck/Thin Them Out by Kim Paffenroth, R.J. and Julia Sevin
Dark Scribe Magazine
February 8, 2009
Review: The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon
Bookgasm.com
February 4, 2009
Review: All You Despise by Tom Piccirilli
Bookgasm.com
January 14, 2009
2008
Review: Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty
Dark Scribe Magazine
December 24, 2008
Review: Brimstone Turnpike edited by Kealan Patrick Burke
Dark Scribe Magazine
November 1, 2008
Review: Occasional Demons by Rick Hautala
Dark Scribe Magazine
August 28, 2008
Review: Children of the New Disorder
by Tim Lebbon & Lindy Moore
Dark Scribe Magazine
July 4, 2008
Review: “A Very Tight Place’ by Stephen King
(from McSweeney’s Issue 27)
Dark Scribe Magazine
June 25, 2008
Interview: Gary Braunbeck
Dark Scribe Magazine
June 3, 2008
Review: Coffin County by Gary Braunbeck
Dark Scribe Magazine
June 3, 2008
Interview: Joe Hill
Dark Discoveries
Issue #11, May 2008
Review: Seldom Seen In August by Kealan Patrick Burke
Dark Scribe Magazine
May 5, 2008
Review: Twilight by William Gay
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 12, 2008
Review: Duma Key by Stephen King
Dark Scribe Magazine
March 11, 2008
Review: Losing Latitude by Cory Cramer
Dark Scribe Magazine
February 25, 2008
Review: Hard Roads by Steve Vernon
Dark Scribe Magazine
January 28, 2008
Review: Monkey Love by John Paul Allen
Hellnotes.com
January 16, 2008
Review: Five Strokes To Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble
Dark Scribe Magazine
January 7, 2008
2007
Review: Disposal by Jeff Strand
Dark Scribe Magazine
December 4, 2007
Review: The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro
Dark Scribe Magazine
November 24, 2007
Review: The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes
Dark Scribe Magazine
November 12, 2007
Review: 30 Days of Night by Tim Lebbon
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 22, 2007
Interview: Tim Lebbon
Dark Scribe Magazine
October 19, 2007
Interview: Kealan Patrick Burke
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 29, 2007
Review: Midlisters by Kealan Patrick Burke
Dark Scribe Magazine
September 27, 2007
Review: The Fever Kill by Tom Piccirilli
Hellnotes.com
September 14, 2007
2005
Interview: Jon F. Merz
Dark Discoveries
Issue #4, Spring 2005
