Little Book with Big Ambitions: Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle”
Rita Indiana's "Tentacle" takes on environmental disaster, queer politics, race relations, and the legacy of empire in a brief 160 pages....
Horror in Revision: On the Contemporary Gothic
Adam Fales on Ahmed Saadawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad,” Sarah Perry’s “Melmoth,” and Chase Berggrun’s “R E D” — emissaries of the “contemporary Gothic.”...
The Craft Is All the Same: A Conversation with Victor LaValle
Ayize Jama-Everett interviews Victor LaValle about horror and diversity....
“We Are Looking in a Mirror”: Ramsey Campbell Curates the History of Horror
Surveying the history of horror fiction....
Blood Suckers
On “A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising” by Raymond A. Villareal....
Tade Thompson’s “Rosewater” — An Alien Invasion That “Grows On You”
Tade Thompson’s “Rosewater” is a hard-boiled alien invasion novel that investigates the perils and opportunities of inescapable networked connection....
Revising Lovecraft: The Mutant Mythos
The mutant legacy of H. P. Lovecraft, as the Cthulhu mythos spawns ever more exotic, challenging revisions....
Tales of Monstrous Women: “The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter” and “European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman” by Theodora Goss
While delivering two rollicking tales of adventure, Theodora Goss also has something important to say about women and monsters....
Escaping from Shadow: Monte Cook’s “Invisible Sun”
Surrealism versus escapism in a new roleplaying game....
Catalonia in Peril: On Manuel de Pedrolo’s “Typescript of the Second Origin”
Manuel de Pedrolo's "Typescript of the Second Origin" is a novel both born from and about politics: in particular, the politics of identity....
Bodies Without Bodies
Martín Felipe Castagnet’s absorbing debut novel explores the unexpected consequences of technological immortality....
An Ode to New-Metal Man: David R. Bunch’s “Moderan”
Rob Latham sings the praises of “Moderan,” a neglected classic about a false utopia by David R. Bunch....
