A genuine mystery and all-around obsession arose in 1986 during the “discovery phase” of my relationship with horror in the mid-1980s. It would last until the early summer of 2008. It was something I ...

One of the saddest stories I’ve ever written here on Dread Central. Danny Steinmann didn’t have the longest career, nor was his work appreciated by mainstream critics. But genre fans loved his crass ...

Today in horror history, Danny Steinmann’s Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning opened in 1985. The fifth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise is set years after the events of Friday the ...

• Having a kill count so high that it borders on existential; characters arrive, say a line, and die, without having any impact on anything • Coughing up all the accoutrements of Jason Voorhees—the ...