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CanLitThe Horror Show

What the body remembers: Naben Ruthnum examines corporeality and identity in his novella Helpmeet

June 17, 2022June 17, 2022

Ruthnum’s brief work of fin-de-siècle body horror reads like a mash-up of David Cronenberg and Henry James.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 13: “Dread” by Clive Barker

May 13, 2022June 14, 2022

Barker’s psychologically tense story examines the price we pay for confronting our darkest fears.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

31 Days of Stories 2022, Day 7: “Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy’s Curse” by Louisa May Alcott

May 7, 2022June 14, 2022

The author of Little Women was also an aficionado of “blood and thunder,” a mode represented in this story about grave robbing and its attendant consequences.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Sympathy for the devils: John Darnielle’s latest novel examines the ethical quagmire of true crime in the context of a taut thriller

April 12, 2022June 14, 2022

Focusing on a writer investigating a double murder with Satanic overtones, the novel asks uncomfortable questions about how and why we consume such gruesome material.

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FilmInternational LiteratureNon-fictionThe Horror Show

Vampires, mad scientists, and American psychos: David J. Skal examines some cultural underpinnings of the horror genre

February 2, 2022June 14, 2022

In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Home is where the hellfire is: Chuck Wendig and Adam L.G. Nevill provide two stories of new homes that prove anything but homey

January 4, 2022June 14, 2022

Neither of the houses in these two books is haunted in the traditional sense; the evil comes from the people and environs that surround them.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

Nic Brewer’s debut novel uses body horror as a means of interrogating the artistic process

November 12, 2021June 14, 2022

The book uses Grand Guignol techniques to literalize the process of tearing oneself open in the act of artistic creation.

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CanLitShort FictionThe Horror Show

A.C. Wise channels unease and melancholy in her story collection The Ghost Sequences

November 3, 2021June 14, 2022

In this suite of sixteen uncanny tales, memory and loss are manifest in the spectres that haunt various characters.

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FilmInternational LiteratureThe Horror Show

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark returns in a new book that also recalls an earlier contender for dark queen of late-night horror

October 29, 2021June 14, 2022

A volume of cultural criticism about Vampira and a new memoir by the creator of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark show how much, and how little, the two have in common.

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CanLitThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

Adam Pottle on how the CanLit establishment’s preference for literary realism downplays the value of horror writing

October 27, 2021June 14, 2022

Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.

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