Generational curses are made to be broken I worry, sometimes, about being overtaken by my past. There are things back there I can’t remember, and things I don’t want to. Things I have been forced to forgive that will never receive an apology. Every day I wake up and make…

The return to Indian Lake The midsection of any slasher franchise worth its salt is always the meatiest playground. …

When critical analysis gets personal, and creative lenses color life Art and analysis have always been subjective. There’s no single way to interpret any particular piece of media — despite what your public school English teachers may have tried to make you believe. In fact, it’s been my experience that…

The anti-fascist, queer-friendly novella-in-verse of your nightmares… It’s taken me a while to come around to finding the words for this review. Verse is a difficult thing to master effectively, and verse with bite even more so. …

When artistry and megalomania combine… Apocalypse novels feel like some of the hardest to approach. While horror is the best suited genre for the subject matter for obvious reasons, it takes a talent to balance the line of not being so nihilistic as to drag the reader down into the…

On complex main characters, trauma expression, and misunderstandings Holden Caulfield has been making the rounds again. Originally published in 1951, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye maintains an unsavory status. While it is no longer banned with as much frequency as its early days — from 1961 to 1982 it…

A Phenomenon, A Grift, And How Lies Turned One Family’s World Upside Down In the double-edged sword of book sales, they say not to judge a book by its cover, all the while making the effort to put forth the kind of cover designed to reach out and speak directly…

When comfort and terror bleed together. Horror is always at its best for me when it sneaks up on you. The dread in the back of your mind that builds and lingers until its hands are firmly wrapped around you, cutting off your sense of safety. Horror novellas are uniquely…

On stories, ghosts, and life Stories have always had a unique kind of power. Folktales in particular are some of the strongest, comfortably occupying the space between creating new worlds and allowing us a deeper understanding of our own. …