Reviews

We’re back in the Hell House universe again, folks. It’s been some time since the third entry in the Hell House franchise. The last time we were in the Hell House universe, people were being murdered in the Abbadon hotel as well as around the property and the very rich Russell Wynn (Gabriel Chytry) defeated demonic cult leader Andrew Tully (Brian David Tracy) in the basement, destroying the hotel in the process. Ultimately, that act reversed the deaths and set the previous victims free from Tully’s hellish grasp. Instead of simply going back to the haunted house that scares the hell (ha, get it?) out of viewers, we are thrust into a haunted manor, that inevitably connects to the Abbadon hotel, with new characters.

Symbolic Exchange & Death is a masterful presentation of postmodern theoretic developments centered on a core dying away of traditional society for new and unexpected simulations and patched together realities…

“The Arbor tells us stories of a time before, when all the dead were kept in orchards that rolled endlessly, and had always been there, and people tended to them…

(Spoiler warning: while I’ve tried to step lightly, some discussions of plot, characters, and events might spoil certain developments in the books.) Essa Hansen brings her Graven trilogy to a…

Death is the guaranteed ending that we all have in common, but death itself is a social construct that we have no knowledge of beyond the biological. We know not…

Suzan Palumbo’s debut story collection Skin Thief is a dark exploration of metamorphosis, cultural fusion, and identities at turns warring and coexisting inside the same vessel. A common thread woven through stories is the subcutaneous need to shed one’s skin—one’s duty or forcefully assigned reality—and don another.