#horror-fiction

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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Why Guillermo del Toro made Frankenstein

Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex. Our rejection or acceptance of a particular type of horror fiction can be as rarefied or kinky as any other phobia or fetish. Horror is made of such base material-so easily rejected or dismissed-that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in our materialistic world.
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fromFuncheap
1 week ago

Book Launch: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine by Kristina Ten w/ Tomas Moniz

Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine transforms childhood games and artifacts into twelve genre-crossing horror stories exploring memory, belonging, disobedience, and bodily autonomy.
fromSlate Magazine
3 months ago

One of the Best Pop Horror Books of the Year Is by ... This Guy?

Chuck Tingle has evolved from a niche author of parodic gay erotica to a respected horror/technothriller writer, showcasing an inspiring underdog story in publishing.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 months ago

'Girl in the Creek': Oh, the horror! * Oregon ArtsWatch

The body lay at the very limit of daylight, the last clear place on the stones before the wood framing in the ancient adit began to peel away from the walls and pile up in moldy heaps.
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fromHarvard Gazette
6 months ago

What really scares Katie Kitamura - Harvard Gazette

Katie Kitamura's latest novel "Audition" explores themes of uncertainty and motherhood through a horror lens, inspired partly by "Rosemary's Baby."
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