George Daniel Lea’s Thirteen for Halloween tour reaches Medusa and the Gorgons, the monsters he met first in a childhood Ladybird book. He reads the Medusa myth through Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans, and asks how a creature built to terrify became a feminist icon.
Alex Goyette’s Breeder sends a broke geneticist to dinner with a dog breeder who thinks he would make the perfect stud. Hope Madden finds this dark comedy horror uncomfortable, smart and often funny, with Dot-Marie Jones giving a masterful performance that holds firm even when the third act falters.
Dani Soncasie spent much of her childhood at Shriners Hospital for Children, afraid of being left behind and of being different. In this guest feature, she traces how those childhood fears in horror form found their way into Blood of the Forsaken, her vampire graphic novel about a family home that stops being safe.
