Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Fejd Chart a Colder Corner of Norse Myth on ‘Nifelheim’
On their fifth full-length, Sweden’s Fejd set Old Norse cosmology’s coldest primordial realm against a folk metal culture already primed…
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Jotungrav Root Their Debut ‘Elegi’ in Norse Rebirth
Jotungrav’s debut album turns Norse myth into a four-song elegy on loss and rebirth, extending a documented tradition with reach.
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The Oddities & Curiosities Expo Trades What the Mütter Keeps
A traveling market of taxidermy and preserved oddities lands roughly twenty-five miles from a much older kind of collection.
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Amarilla Draws Children Only Slightly Wicked
In conversation, illustrator Amarilla discusses morally gray children and meeting readers face to face for the first time.
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IDW’s ‘Witches of the Western Wood’ Turns Bloody
IDW Dark’s fourth issue turns inherited witchcraft into open violence, tightening the countdown to the Headless Horseman’s first ride.
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Occult Master Confront Leprosy’s Exile on ‘Occult Master’
The Oulu trio’s debut turns a leprosy narrative into progressive doom, already reaching international metal press ahead of release.
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Del Sandeen Returns to Savannah in ‘These Walls Remember’
Berkley publishes Del Sandeen’s second novel on August 18th, a Savannah house where undealt-with history becomes the antagonist itself.
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NecronomiCon Providence Walks Lovecraft’s Own Streets
Providence’s biennial weird fiction convention returns to the city Lovecraft mythologized, running August 13th through 16th, 2026.
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Unified Confront a ‘Devouring Plague of Mediocrity’
A Bogotá band formed in 2024 answers the city’s brutal death metal inheritance with a debut about ritual, fear and…
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Jennifer McMahon’s ‘Stay Buried’ Reopens a Vermont Plague
Gallery Books publishes McMahon’s 13th novel, a dual-timeline folk horror rooting a Vermont outbreak in inherited quarantine customs.
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Soulgrind Emerges from Tuonela in ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’
Fifteen years after ‘The Tuoni Pathway,’ Soulgrind returns with a record steeped in Tuonela’s mythology, reaching beyond Finland’s gothic scene.
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A Private Collection Becomes a Chamber of Horrors in Alton
Troy Taylor’s August 14th fundraiser previews Alton’s new Chamber of Horrors, testing whether one collector’s archive can carry a public…
