In August we published a call for academic work on UPenn, and almost immediately my email was flooded with messages. First, I'm so glad for that - it means that we caught your attention, and you're i...

Before you read Content note. This essay discusses two films whose material includes domestic abuse, the killing of a family dog, and a great deal of body horror and gore. The abuse is named as the ...

LaRocca's most ambitious structure yet, at war with its own beautiful voice. When Wretch works, it is among the year's most upsetting horror.

💡Content warning: this review discusses the novel's treatment of child abuse, incest, self-harm, matricide, and cannibalism. Scholfield's own front-matter note names these plainly, and so will I.💡Spoi...

It doesn’t matter what an author intended - only what they’ve done.   As a writer or creator this is a terrifying prospect: once you’ve sent your art into the world you lose control of it, and it bec...

Osgood Perkins spent two films becoming bankable. Keeper is what he makes when no one hands him a hook.

💡Spoiler and content warnings for You Weren't Meant to Be Human. This review discusses a novel that depicts pregnancy and childbirth, forced gestation, abortion and its criminalization, suicidal ideat...

I read Grief Eater in a single sitting, on a night I had set aside for something gentler, and when I finished I did a thing I have not done after a book, maybe ever: I picked up my phone and called so...

On Hokum (2026) What do you do after spending the day with horror fans and horror luminaries at StokerCon? Last week I watched Hokum in a dark hotel room with a dear friend after spending all day in ...

Obsession and Backrooms, seen a week apart Some weeks the programming chooses your theme for you. I caught Obsession on a Monday and Backrooms the following Friday, with nothing in between but the us...