Essays

Bootheels clacking on the sidewalk. Cloak or duster flying behind. Eyes shaded by the brim of a black hat or […]

Have you ever had grief sex? There are a varieties of the funeral fuck: there’s the petit mort in the

“How would you feel about adopting a lab beagle?” my person asked me one night. My first thought was of

Telling stories about life after death is a strange business. It’s possible we lean so often on the fantastical because

Fans of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff show Angel are well-versed in the concept of tragic character

When we’re inside our home, the walls create extensions of our bodily boundaries and demarcate where the self ends and

Horror might not be the first genre people think of when they’re looking for comfort. By its very nature, it’s

Only a lucky few can say they were au courant during goth music’s initial spawning from post-punk in the late

What can I tell you about Carnival of Souls? I could tell you that it came out two years before

The first gothic story I remember falling in love with was The Phantom of the Opera. At the time, we

Multiverses are having a moment—from the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s recent excursions to Everything Everywhere All at Once to countless cartoons

Two movies released when I was eighteen years old. One was The Crow, and the other was Pulp Fiction. One