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International LiteratureNovelsThe Horror Show

Stephen Graham Jones returns to his slasher-film inspiration with the nostalgia saturated novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw

October 18, 2021June 14, 2022

The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.

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Horror is as horror does: Susie Moloney on the genre’s ability to ease real-life pain

October 15, 2021June 14, 2022

“Horror movies really, really distracted me from the most painful time of my life. Alone in the theatre for a couple of hours, being manipulated into screaming, swearing, and tossing my popcorn, I was transported.”

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“I was always a morbid kid”: James Grainger on respectability, experimenting on pig hearts, and the movie that got him interested in horror

October 14, 2021June 14, 2022

“If you just look at your own nightmares, you know that there are no rules.”

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Non-fictionThe Horror Show

Why so serious? Punch, Pennywise, and the evolution of the bad clown in popular culture

October 13, 2021June 14, 2022

“It’s difficult to assign a specific cultural meaning to the bad clown, because it is such a malleable archetype,” Radford writes.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

David Demchuk on queerness, supernatural horror, and the intersection of fictional and real-life monsters

October 9, 2021June 14, 2022

“A lot of it reminds me of just how much I have come through. And how much the people I know have come through. And what it was like to lose people.”

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“It encourages madness of a certain kind”: David Cronenberg on the horror genre

October 6, 2021June 14, 2022

“The very things that nurture you in the horror genre are also the things that can suppress an understanding of what you’re trying to do.”

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

Labyrinthine nightmares: “Treading the Maze” by Lisa Tuttle

October 5, 2021June 14, 2022

Tuttle’s brand of quiet horror is at once a rejoinder to a genre that leans heavily on masculine aggression and a means to achieve effects more unsettling than an explicit presentation could ever be.

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Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort FictionThe Horror Show

Stalking the self: “Consequences” by Willa Cather

October 4, 2021June 14, 2022

Cather’s use of a close third-person narration lends her story an uncanny element of unease and creepiness.

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FilmThe Horror Show

“They are our collective nightmares”: Robin Wood on the 20th century American horror film

October 3, 2021June 14, 2022

We can thank Wood for taking the horror film seriously, and for giving us a framework to understand many of our current cultural impasses.

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The most wild, homely narrative: “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

October 2, 2021June 14, 2022

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.

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