The mystery behind the death of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 under conspicuously mysterious circumstances. A Buzzfeed mini-documentary speculates on what might have happened to him.
Carol J. Clover and gender subversion in the modern horror film
Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.
Gunnar Hansen on what constitutes horror
The original Leatherface asks whether Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film classic can be considered horror without any supernatural elements.
“What did he have to report?”: “Paranoia” by Shirley Jackson
Jackson’s story of the commute from hell is one of her most nerve-shattering, Kafkaesque tales.
“I was thinking about my neighbours”: Shirley Jackson on her literary inspiration
Shirley Jackson on the inspiration for her classic 1948 chiller, “The Lottery.”
The automaton cometh: “The Sandman” by E.T.A. Hoffmann; Ritchie Robertson, trans.
The Prussian author’s 1816 tale is an early 19th century progenitor of the modern horror story.
What we fear
The genre that preys on the subconscious is more varied and interesting that it is frequently given credit for.
Newfoundland’s Michael Crummey on history, story, and his latest novel, The Innocents
Michael Crummey talks fiction, Newfoundland, and landscape: “I had lived in Labrador for a while and I had the very real sense that this place could kill you.”
Novels by Carl Hiaasen and John le Carré take different approaches to our current political moment
Fictionalizing the geopolitics of the past four years throws up challenges for novelists in how to treat a reality that is often stranger than fiction.
Ongoing Covid-19 pandemic makes for a fall publishing season like no other in memory
The global pandemic, an American presidential election, and a double cohort of books hitting the market make a perfect storm for publishers and booksellers.