It’s Time to Revive the Nuclear Disaster Film
With the U.S. and Russia each edging towards possible Atomkrieg, we’re overdue for a cinematic reminder of the horrors of nuclear war by Patrick Maynard BERLIN — When international leaders met in the German capital in early February, they all agreed on
Horror’s Hollow Men
The Empty Man and Wounds use the tools of horror to explore the hollow core of masculinity by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin Horror and gender have always made comfortable bedfellows, and horror fiction that centers the destructive potential of masculinity is nothing new.
Grey
POETRY by Ashely Adams // Illustration by J.R. Bolt I am NOT saying Raytheon is perfect or great. I am saying that this is probably more grey than it initially seems. I used to
Interview: Gretchen Felker-Martin on Manhunt, and Refusing to Hide the Violence of the Everyday
By Claire Davidson Gretchen Felker-Martin has an intimate knowledge of horror, and one that spans many different lenses. A fiction author, film critic, and film curator through her Deadlights Theater Discord server, Felker-Martin has made it her life’s objective to expand
Brain In A Jar: The Revolution Of Unplayability
The obtusion of Cruelty Squad forces players to confront the alienating horror of life as a tool of capital by Julia Norza You don’t notice the first time Cruelty Squad lowers your difficulty. After a rickety cutscene introduces your bed-unframed
The Writing On the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism
Before "offering solutions," sci-fi must actually grapple with the material realities of our present by Eli Horowitz The year was 2011, and the award-winning sci-fi author Neal Stephenson was drinking himself maudlin on the sweetened wine of nostalgia.
Rated “G” for “Globalization”
How the drive for easily marketable, mass-consumable children's media stifles complexity and creativity by Malcolm Rambert Cartoon Network’s Infinity Train is a unique show. Each season of the show—which were called “Books” in production—follows a vast, extradimensional train as
Because They Could Not Stop
SHORT FICTION by Dennis Mombauer The seed plummets back toward the womb. V. Clinzell watches the atmosphere grow, the endless ocean and the ruins rising from below. The position lights shine from under the waves, the signal arrays have drowned decades ago. Because they
The Empath
SHORT FICTION by Raquel S. Benedict The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at her like a scab one is
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Race Essentialism of Sci-fi Hybrids
Sci-fi's use of cross-species "hybrids" highlights the persistence of race essentialism by Kathryn Finch In the 1972 blaxploitation film The Thing With Two Heads, a man who is dying of cancer arranges to have his head transplanted onto the body