Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia
By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.
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By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.
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.
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.
When Khaw is at their best, their writing has teeth – blackened, razor sharp, and ready to rend flesh.
This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.
As a primer to the ways cinematic horror works on audiences' psyches and the specific neurological responses these techniques can elicit, Nightmare Fuel is a breezy and fluent read.
The Talosite exists at the confluence of sci-fi and body horror, with the actual horrors of the First World War a constant shadow in the background.
Vampires and werewolves are the genre touchstones that get renovated in these two works of fabulism.
Two novels – one from the 1980s and one from the 2010s – showcase the grindhouse-driven mentality of horror's golden age.
Ruthnum's brief work of fin-de-siècle body horror reads like a mash-up of David Cronenberg and Henry James.