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Horror

An anonymous woman diving into the water at night.
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Final Girl, Terrible Place

by Lesley Finn July 5, 2022November 8, 2022

I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Finally, the Truth Behind the ‘Haunted’ Dybbuk Box Can Be Revealed

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“The Dybbuk Box has captured the popular imagination, becoming the stuff of internet legend — and commerce.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, History, Nonfiction, Story

The Corpse Rider

by Colin Dickey October 24, 2019January 20, 2023

“I could see the ghosts,” recalled Lafcadio Hearn about his early childhood. Late in life, he became a celebrated chronicler of Japan’s folk tales: stories of strange demons and lingering visitations.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by benhuberman October 31, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Story

After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses

by Longreads October 31, 2018October 19, 2022

Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Our Zombies, Ourselves: An Undead Reading List

by Erin Blakemore July 19, 2017October 19, 2022

The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Black Men Terrified

by Aaron Gilbreath February 27, 2017October 19, 2022

Frederick McKindra examines how James DeMonaco’s The Purge and Jordan Peele’s Get Out turn the the horror genre’s racial dynamics upside down.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

But What’s IT All About?: How We Forgot the Murderous Clown

by michelleweber February 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Adrian Daub’s fascinating essay in the LA Review of Books on the Stephen King classic IT — now 30 years old — reveals that the real horror of IT wasn’t Pennywise the supernatural clown, but our own, entirely human ability to forget the horrors of the past.

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