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Bram Inscore, a songwriter and producer who had led Beck’s backing band and worked with BTS and Troye Sivan, has died. He was 41.In a statement released Friday, Inscore’s family said that he “ended his life after a hard fought battle with depression” in San Francisco on Dec. 19. “Selfless as a human and generous as a collaborator, he ingeniously served the music but never his own ego,” the statement continued. “Deep compassion and dry wit were embedded into everything he did, though he never sought praise or approval. He…

After an eventful Halloween, we’re now looking forward to Christmas-themed horrors to keep the spirit of spooky season alive even during a traditionally joyous holiday. Thankfully, horror can be enjoyed all-year-round, meaning that there’s never a bad time to sit back, relax, and indulge in a frightful festive flick. Who ever said that Christmas needed to be all swirly-twirly gumdrops and golden-syrup spaghetti? Unless we’re breaking a rule, we’ll continue to scare the pants off of each other — and ourselves — no matter…

Having celebrated the 125th anniversary of its 1897 publication earlier this year, "Dracula" is deservedly considered a classic—not least for the way its eponymous vampire remains a cultural icon. Bram Stoker's novel has prompted a wide variety of critical interpretations, from the existential dread of cursed immortality to the threat of disease, intrusion and colonialism. But Stoker's vampire represents something…

Dracula’s creator is about to encounter his own creatures of the night. AfterShock Comics has announced Bram Stoker, Monster Hunter, a new series that follows the horror author’s supernatural adventures. The series comes from the creative team of writers Olivia Cuartero-Briggs & Adam Glass, artist Emilio Pilliu, and letterer Sal Cipriano. The series will sport covers by Pilliu, with the first issue also featuring an incentive variant cover by Pat Olliffe. Here’s how AfterShock describes the forthcoming series:…

Francis Ford Coppola’s vampire tale is now revived in cinemas for its 30th anniversary, with Gary Oldman the fierce and anguished count who hundreds of years ago renounced God and embraced an eternity of parasitic horror in his rage at the unjust death of his countess (played by Winona Ryder). Dressed like the Pierrot from hell in his vast Transylvanian castle, Dracula then buys property in Victorian London, and appears there in the style of a sinister young dandy, on the scent of a woman who looks exactly like his late…