Stalking the self: “Consequences” by Willa Cather
Cather’s use of a close third-person narration lends her story an uncanny element of unease and creepiness.
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Cather’s use of a close third-person narration lends her story an uncanny element of unease and creepiness.
We can thank Wood for taking the horror film seriously, and for giving us a framework to understand many of our current cultural impasses.
Poe’s 1843 tale is not only one of the greatest horror stories ever written; it is also a pristine example of internal integrity in the short form.
The genre “specifically devoted to the arousal of bodily sensation” traffics in transgression and finds pleasure in the disreputable.
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
From 17th century Gothic novels to the modern-day zombie story, the horror novel continues to fascinate readers and evolve in the literary consciousness.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
Huysmans shared his protagonist’s disgust with humanity and longed to create a new kind of literature.
The term “splatterpunk” refers to a highly disreputable, extreme subgenre of graphic horror, but its best practitioners do much more with the form.
Not a retread or homage, Bloch’s vampire story displays a momentum and technique typical of the author’s best work.