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[Editorial] 12 Ghouls of Christmas: The X-Files’ “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”
It was Christmas, 1917—a time of dark, dark despair. The First World War and a deadly flu virus ravaged the world; populations were decimated with previously unimaginable speed…
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[Book Review] Sorrowland (2021)
Vern has escaped from Cainland. She’s pregnant. Through the woods, she flees from her husband, the Reverend Sherman, and from the cult-like settlement she grew up in…
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[Book Review] Thin Places (2020)
Thin places are parts of the world where the barrier between clay and the mist is more fragile, where it can be broken . . .
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[Editorial] Interview with Barbara Crampton about Jakob’s Wife
I sat down with Barbara Crampton to chat about female friendship, vampirism as life after death, and sexuality on screen in Jakob’s Wife…
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[Film Review] Jakob’s Wife (2021)
Anne Fedder (Barbara Crampton) simmers in a pew, quietly disdainful of her husband. When Reverend Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden) proselytizes, “He who loves his wife loves himself,” it reeks of hypocrisy…
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[Book Review] Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter
Mary is not a good writer. She’s not sure she wants to be. But what else is there for the descendent of Mary Shelley?
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[Book Review] A Certain Hunger (2020)
It begins with a meal. And a murder. Not necessarily in that order. Chelsea G. Summers’s debut novel revitalizes the sophisticated cannibal through a feminist slant…