Why Women Watch Horror
Horror media has become a vital and transgressive artistic inflection point for women by Lindsay Lee Wallace // Illustrations by Lauren Sophie Gletty The theater is dark, and vibrant with the film’s staccato soundtrack and an accompaniment of whispers and shushes.
I Gave You My Soul (and I Am Dead): Gender & Faustian Fiction
A lesson in gender norms, compliments of the Devil by Matilda Lewis The motif of the Faustian pact with the Devil is an old and colorful one, remixed and reinterpreted time and again. Always, it invites the audience to consider: What
REVIEW: Fear Street Reveals the Poverty of Pastiche
Leigh Janiak's Fear Street sets out to revive the teen slasher, but seems content to play around with its corpse by Kurt Schiller Fear Street—the new three-part horror series from Netflix and director Leigh Janiak—begins with a promising burst of neon, blood,
The Monstrous Men of Mary Harron
Mary Harron's films reveal the impotence of the male abuser by Rose Gunn On the night of August 8th, 1969, four followers of failed-musician-turned-cult-leader Charles Manson murdered five people, including the actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant at the
The Hackneyed Hag
The Monster Most Emblematic of the Past Decade of Horror Is a Naked Old Woman by Natalia Keogan Of all the eerie and uncanny images that the human psyche can conjure in dreams, the vision of an elderly crone is the
Swelter and Shade
SHORT FICTION by Wendy Nikel We used to live in the city, until the day Mr. Fitz's A/C died in a traffic jam. By the time they found him and pried his car doors open, the old man was dead, the back
Myerscough & Skelton
SHORT FICTION by Tim Jeffreys They came only on grey days, or so it seemed to Victor. Foreshadowed. They came on quiet days. Damp days. Tuesdays. Nothing days. They came on days when the sky was overcast and the color seemed bleached out of
Ostensible Projected Forms
How an Obscure Short Story by David Foster Wallace Almost Predicted Our Imminent Deepfakes Hellscape by Owen Morawitz Throughout much of its history as a form of genre storytelling, science fiction has consistently explored the tensions and contours that exist between the
Interview: Laird Barron on Cosmic Horror
Since the debut of his first published work, "Shiva, Open Your Eye" in 2001 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, author Laird Barron has become a leading voice in cosmic horror, weird, and crime fiction. Across five novels
The Architecture of Woe
We live amidst the dead temples of slumbering, industrial gods. What will we do if they wake once more? by Kurt Schiller // Illustration by Sam Hindman This novel dramatic paraphernalia consisted first of all of the Gothic castle, with