Love Conquers Worldbuilding Flaws: All of Us Strangers Gets to Essential Human Truths
All of Us Strangers (now on Hulu), from director Andrew Haigh, sinks the viewer into an eerie, speculative world […]
Reviews
The First Omen (2024)
Spoilers ahead! Religious horror hits differently for folks who were raised religious, particularly Christian. I personally find religious horror to
Spirits, Ghosts, and Devoured Souls: a Review of SMALL GODS OF CALAMITY
There is something about the supernatural crime/mystery genre that appeals to me on a profound level. It’s like mixing two
To Live and Die (and be Reborn) in Deux-Sèvres
From the title, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild promises to be a book about death. And it is;
Travels Through the Ghost of a Dragon – a Review of GOGMAGOG: THE FIRST CHRONICLE OF LUDWICH
When I read the publisher’s description of Jeff Noon and Steve Beard’s new fantasy novel Gogmagog: The First Chronicle of
Death as Translation – a Review of Signs Preceding the End of the World
What remains of us after we die? Is death an ending or a transition? Yuri Herrera’s novella Signs Preceding The
Magic, Murder & Mayhem – a Review of The Briar Book of the Dead
The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter (AKA Angela Slatter) is a darkly gleaming Gothic fairytale/murder mystery full
Umbras, Jakes, and Junzas – a review of FINDING ECHOES
Finding Echoes, a brand-new fantasy novella from writer Foz Meadows, is a story where death, grief, loss, and perseverance, are
Puppets of the Digital Age
We associate puppets with theater or street performances: the stock characters of the Italian Commedia dell’arte, the Greek shadow play
Helle and Death
Helle and Death by Oskar Jensen is a striking resuscitation of what often feels like the age-old murder mystery. This