All of Us Strangers (now on Hulu), from director Andrew Haigh, sinks the viewer into an eerie, speculative world full of ghosts, grief, regrets, and a complicated relationship with…
The First Omen (2024) is the pro-choice film we need at this point in time. It’s a prequel to The Omen (1976) that sheds some insight into the horrors of how Damien came to be.
There is something about the supernatural crime/mystery genre that appeals to me on a profound level. It’s like mixing two of my favorite ingredients (chocolate and raspberries, say) and ending…
From the title, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild promises to be a book about death. And it is; the titular banquet is the centerpiece of the novel, stories…
When I read the publisher’s description of Jeff Noon and Steve Beard’s new fantasy novel Gogmagog: The First Chronicle of Ludwich—“the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long…
What remains of us after we die? Is death an ending or a transition? Yuri Herrera’s novella Signs Preceding The End of the World provides some fascinating answers to these questions by finding the ultimate simile for death: translation. His story of the indigenous mediator Makina crossing over the Mexican-American border to find her brother contains several cultures, mythologies, and languages, converging in her person.
The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter (AKA Angela Slatter) is a darkly gleaming Gothic fairytale/murder mystery full of witches and ghosts, evil schemes, and deeply buried family…
Finding Echoes, a brand-new fantasy novella from writer Foz Meadows, is a story where death, grief, loss, and perseverance, are at the center of the tale. The story’s narrator is…
We associate puppets with theater or street performances: the stock characters of the Italian Commedia dell’arte, the Greek shadow play of Karagiozis, the traditional British Punch and Judy seaside shows….
Helle and Death by Oskar Jensen is a striking resuscitation of what often feels like the age-old murder mystery. This novel adds to this great genre of literature by taking…
