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Color Game Mistakes: When Results Start Looking Like Secret Clues
Color Game Mistakes: When Results Start Looking Like Secret Clues The Filipino Color Game is easy … Color Game Mistakes: When Results Start Looking Like Secret CluesRead more
Laura Mauro Returns: Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers
After years away, Laura Mauro returns with Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers, a short story and a novella steeped in Japanese folklore. Shadowsick sends a decapitated head into spectral flight, while Lovesongs of the Nonmigratory Birds pulls the Yuki-Onna into a bleak, heartfelt tale of two people coming apart. A comeback well worth the wait.
We Run the Night Review: Kenyan Folklore After Lights Out
Peace Mbengei’s We Run the Night turns a Kenyan boarding school into a sealed arena for folklore, grief and body horror. This five-star YA horror debut makes the night runners frightening, but the adults who refuse to listen are worse.
Why the Wait Is Scarier Than the Monster
Why the Wait Is Scarier Than the Monster Think about the horror scene that stayed with … Why the Wait Is Scarier Than the MonsterRead more
Peace Mbengei Interview: We Run the Night and the Luo Night Runners
Peace Mbengei talks through her debut YA horror novel We Run the Night, where Luo night runners turn grief into body horror inside a Kenyan boarding school. She discusses the strangler fig at the story’s centre, the institutional cover up that follows, and why forgiveness, not revenge, sets her heroine free.
This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want Review: The Screen Bites Back
Hailey Piper takes the cursed film novel and twists it through grief, lost media, queer bonds and cosmic horror. This five-star review looks at why This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want makes the act of watching feel unsafe.
Lost Boys by Dean Cade: Queer Horror Meets the Candy Man Murders
Dean Cade’s Lost Boys, book two of the Summer 1973 trilogy from Slashic Horror Press, rebuilds the Houston Mass Murders from the inside out, following a closeted gas-station teenager through the summer the Candy Man came for the Heights. Our five-star review of a queer horror and true-crime hybrid that remembers the boys history reduced to a body count.
Please Rewind: Why 1994 Was Perfect for a Cursed Movie
Hailey Piper’s This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want begins with an obscure cinema screening in November 1994. We rewind to VHS culture, pre-Google research and the glorious inconvenience that made the decade perfect for a cursed movie.
Risk Is Not the Enemy — Poor Risk Thinking Is
Risk Is Not the Enemy — Poor Risk Thinking Is Every meaningful business decision carries risk. … Risk Is Not the Enemy — Poor Risk Thinking IsRead more