Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star’s lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper’s final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscri...

Shusei Nagaoka's cover for the 1978 Deep Purple rock album When We Rock, We Rock And When We Roll, We Roll is a great way to exemplify the microgenre of retro science fiction art I'm taking a look at ...

Maybe the critical analysis I am looking for is one that does not aim directly at the out-of-doors but, by exploring the indoors of the text and going deeper and deeper in its centripetal movement,…

Variables – Rings – Gifts, a story (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are all entirely fictional.) dp063a dp063b **…

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

Four issues of the broadside edition of The Dreadful Point (published irregularly, first issue includes magnifying card)

Getting to be nearly that Best of All Seasons (Hallowe’en), so I want to get back into the ol’ pulp strainer world and talk about some neat weird horror…BUT, the previous post abo…

“The Boy Who Hooked the Sun” by Gene Wolfe On the eighth day a boy cast his line into the sea. The sun of the eighth day was just rising, making a road of gold that ran from its own bro…

To celebrate (and *ahem* advertise) the fact that my short story, “Vaucanson’s Canard,” is available for preorder as an absolutely gorgeous pamphlet from Paradise Editions (with i…

YouTube video by The New Yorker

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

As Northern cod stocks rebound, Newfoundlanders are expressing cautious optimism over a fish they nearly lost

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

11:14 AM PT -- A spokesperson for American Airlines tells TMZ ... "On Sept. 3, ​American ​Airlines ​flight 618 diverted to Baltimore ​(BWI) ​due to a disruptive customer. Upon arrival, law ​enforcemen...

The Department of Education is unveiling new guidelines following backlash.

As horror, this is absolute S-tier Lynch, as unrelentingly frightening, eerie, and awful as anything in 'Lost Highway' or 'Mulholland Drive.'