Essays

  • The New “New Weird Fiction”

    How weird fiction evolved from the pioneers of the speculative fiction genre to our unhinged Booktok girls? What makes a weird book “weird?”

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  • Man, Myth & Magic

    Man, Myth & Magic

    A brief primer on everything we know about “Man, Myth and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia to the Supernatural,” a 24 volume encyclopedia set on all things esoteric, strange, and occult.

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  • No One Will Believe You: Social Isolation in Grady Hendrix Novels

    Grady Hendrix, author of “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires” and other horror novels, writes characters who face both paranormal threats and “female” coded violence like gaslighting, creating a uniquely claustrophobic isolation.

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  • Best Horror Filmed During the Pandemic

    Modern horror movies filmed during the early months of the pandemic lean on old tropes of the genre, such as unsettling dread and practical effects, in order to create an entirely new scare for the age of COVID-19. 

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