Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows is a dark genre-blending novel that combines elements of gothic literature, psychological horror, and literary fiction. Published by the University of Massachusetts Press and part of the Juniper Prize for Fiction series. The novel explores themes of motherhood, obsession, generational trauma, and the uneasy …

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal approaches gothic mythology with a daring sense of authorship in The Bride! – a film that exhumes one of horror’s most recognizable legends and reshapes it into something electrifying. Gyllenhaal relocates the narrative gravity toward the figure who has long existed on the margins of the story, …

An Homage to Giallo’s Greatest Hits Directed by Davide Melini, Deep Shock takes you into the kind of fever dream that feels half memory and half nightmare. This short film opens as a beautifully unsettling dive into grief, memory, and the giallo tradition itself. What at first seems like a …

The Family at Center of Freddy’s Darkest Secrets Directed by Emma Tammi, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 centers on Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson: The Hunger Games) as he continues to try to build a sense of normalcy for himself and his younger sister Abby (Piper Rubio) after the events at …

A Fresh Perspective on Tolkien’s Life and Creative Legacy J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy by Don Marshall (aka “The Obscure Lord of the Rings Facts Guy”) is a compact biography that celebrates Tolkien as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (and so much …

50th Anniversary to the Queer, Weird and Unstoppable The Official Rocky Horror Late Night Double Feature: The 50th Anniversary Two-Volume Collector’s Edition by show creator Richard O’ Brien and his son, filmmaker and director of Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Linus O’Brien, is breathtaking; it is an invitation …

Why I’ll Never Stop Returning to Miles County I used to fear clowns. Not just the painted faces, the oversized shoes, or the red noses, but the emptiness behind that smile: the sense that something utterly unknowable lurked beneath the guise of joy. I ran from them, hid from them, …