For those of us who have Apple computers, it can be difficult to find cheap or free Mac games to play, especially horror games. I’ve been through more expensive Mac games, like BioShock and Amnesia, and I’ve dug out my finicky old Windows laptop for some Silent Hill (my favorite horror game series). But frankly, I want more!

Luckily, with a lot of research, I’ve found a long list of free and cheap horror games available for Mac. (Natively available for Mac, without the need for tedious extra steps, like Boot Camp, Virtual Machine, torrenting, emulators, etc.)

As a hardcore horror game fan, I’ll be reviewing each of these free or cheap games, most of which are indies, all of which are available for Mac. Windows people, you’re in luck too, since most of them are also for Windows.

First up, a review of an eerie little free game called One Late Night:

Last Thursday’s episode of Elementary (4/25/13), “Dead Man’s Switch” (1×20), featured our very first full glimpse into an Arthur Conan Doyle canon Sherlock Holmes story.

Elementary, a NY-based modern Holmes adaptation starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson, has always strongly adhered to ACD’s original written works (first published in 1887). Critics of the CBS crime drama complaining about the lack of canon elements often seem to be doing so as a racist and sexist gesture (conscious or otherwise), attempting to discredit a popular TV show starring a woman of color (Liu), since their complaints of non-Holmesian situations and characterization rarely if ever hold up.

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In an effort to help spread the world about Shallow Graves magazine, our Editor-in-Chief has pledged to do a 5k zombie run and to film her adventure in early 2013 if we get 1,000 likes on our Facebook page by time Halloween is over. Yvette is absolutely terrified of Zombies, but she’s always up for a challenge. Lets push her toward her goal!

Johnny Depp stars in Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows” based on the cult television series. Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) has been trapped for two centuries by an evil witch (Eva Green) who just happens to be an ex lover. Barnabas now has to struggle with the ever changing 1970s and save his families business! The cast is rounded out by Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jonny Lee Miller and more, and is a hell of a fun movie.

Now, you can enter to win a copy. All you have to do is post the results of the “Are You Creepy Enough?” quiz in a comment, and you will be entered to win. You may only enter once. The contest will close on Saturday, October 13th and a winner will be notified soon there after. Good luck!

Warner Bros. Entertainment will again sponsor the official bag of Comic-Con International: San Diego 2012, the Studio announced today. By joining forces with Comic-Con for the third consecutive year, Warner Bros. will give each fan attending the Con an unforgettable keepsake from the world’s leading pop culture convention.

The featured TV titles are Arrow, The Big Bang Theory, DC Nation, Fringe, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, along with motion pictures Man of Steel and Pacific Rim.

Eric Hurt’s horror-thriller “House Hunting” is now available on Video on Demand (VOD) through Comcast, Cox, Insight and Cable vision as of February 1^st 2012. The film stars Marc Singer, Art LaFleur and Hayley DuMond and tells the story of two families attending an open house in the hopes of finding their dream home. Upon entering, their dream quickly becomes a hellish nightmare when they realize that every attempt to leave takes them right back to the front door. Stuck in this purgatory, the two families are haunted by the deserted home’s former owner with the declaration that only one of the two families will be able to call this house their home. 

Check out the trailer, and be double sure to check out “House Hunting” on VOD and let us know what you think!

Former Communist rebels and Thai celebrations litter the tang pi or “The Ghost Way”, a book with a scary premise and some scarier moments.  Unfortunately, the stilted and robotic style makes reading difficult, and breaking it up into a series of 38 vignettes, while aesthetically interesting, leads to undeveloped or underdeveloped characters with whom I could not sympathize.  I read with a sense of detachment instead of fearing for our protagonists.

“The Ghost Way” tells the allegedly true story of the Ramanakajja’s haunted home near Asksala, Thailand during the 70s.  Eot and Jak Ramanakajja thought themselves lucky when they bought a low-priced new home for their growing family just outside their village.  But this was the repossessed home of drunkard and gambler Hute Ninchu who, after several attempts to intimidate the Ramanakajjas, performed a ritual that called his ancestral spirits, buried on the property, to chase away the intruders.  Ninchu did not realize that he had opened a portal that could not be shut and had called forth much more frightening spirits than his ancestors.  Thus we see the Ramanakajjas experience several horrifying incidents so constant that they soon cannot stay overnight in their own home.  They often pack up and run through the elephant grass and jungle to a relative’s home as they fight shape-shifting demons and angry spirits of dead villagers they once called friends.  The most terrifying stories belong to the other villagers who scoff at the Ramanakajja’s stories until they venture too close and experience the terror firsthand.

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Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt (FDR) once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.”  While FDR spoke of action to alleviate suffering caused by the Great Depression, the assertion applies neatly to “The Hounds of Baskerville.”  This episode brilliantly reexamined that old trope concerning the power of fear and how it can motivate or undermine us.  Fear and how it distorts reality motivated Henry, the client, to seek out Sherlock.  Perhaps more importantly, Sherlock’s fears were exposed.  Those fears fit into the larger Series 2 arch that explores and add layers to Sherlock’s humanity as he inches closer to his collision with Moriarty, who appears to have no humanity of which to speak.

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