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The Horror Show

Brief EncountersCanLitThe Horror Show

Queer fear: an anthology of fiction and poetry reimagines horror tropes from LGBTQ+ perspectives

February 23, 2023February 27, 2023

"These stories ask the question What is a monster? and complicate the definition of 'monster' along the way."

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FilmInternational LiteratureThe Horror Show

Robin R. Means Coleman updates her essential text on Black horror cinema with a new volume and a new co-author

February 15, 2023February 18, 2023

The Black Guy Dies First reads like little more than Horror Noire for the attention-deficit crowd.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.

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PublishingThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

With “The Heart of a Pig,” novelist and book columnist James Grainger resurrects the serial format

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023

Grainger's horror Substack, The Veil, is parcelling out the longish story in several instalments.

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PublishingThe Horror Show

Undertow Publications launches fundraising campaign to keep the journal Weird Horror alive

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

The goal is to raise $4,800, which will be used to defray production costs and to pay contributors.

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CanLitNovelsThe ColophonThe Horror Show

Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia

November 29, 2022November 30, 2022

By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.

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CriticismNon-fictionThe Horror Show

In It Came from the Closet, queer writers reflect on the horror movies that have influenced, enticed, or repelled them

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Together, these essays provide a justification and rationale for queer readings of what may in fact turn out to be one of the queerest genres around.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Horror Show

The chain saw and the shark: Cultural critic W. Scott Poole examines the twin poles of American horror in Dark Carnivals

October 26, 2022October 29, 2022

Poole's extended argument about the dominance of American empire and the ways horror filmmakers (and, to a lesser extent, novelists) have responded to it is potent and challenging.

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CanLitShort FictionThe Horror Show

Montreal-based writer Cassandra Khaw combines lyricism and brevity in short works of horror and dark fantasy

October 13, 2022October 14, 2022

When Khaw is at their best, their writing has teeth – blackened, razor sharp, and ready to rend flesh.

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International LiteratureThe Horror Show

Feral men and murderous TERFs: the post-apocalyptic world of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.

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