There’s a special kind of relationship between the second person and stories of ontological horror. If a narrative is already destabilizing the world, then explicitly and directly situating the reader within it makes it all the more unsettling. I’ve argued that this affect lies at the heart of weird fiction. I can think of no…
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Reality Is How Horror Stories Are Born: an interview with Carson Winter, author of The Psychographist
It’s been a hell of a few years for Carson Winter, with short stories published in various magazines and Best Of’s, and a growing number of weird horror novellas under his belt. Jonny Pickering chats with Carson about Thomas Ligotti, what it means to be an American, and the deep seated unease lurking beneath the…
In Horror Stories, They Fuck Like Me (A Kink in Five Lessons) Anonymous
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You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Review of Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool from Josh Pearce
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Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan
Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capitalist world-system; towering metropolises forcibly situating plenty and poverty side by side. In her superb new collection You Glow In The Dark, Liliana Colanzi excises…
The Horror on the End of Every Fork by Neal Auch
The publication of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch was met with great controversy. The book was characterized as “a devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life” by its defenders, and as “ literary sewage” by detractors. Naked Lunch was eventually banned in several states because of obscenity laws;…
“Where Is Your Light, Yvette Jones?” by Victor Forna
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“Her Eyes in the Dark” by Curtis Hayden Hill
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“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy
Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees her. She’s not there, though. She’s never there. Brick City clicks. Grinds. Boyd steps away from the window and stands in the center…
“Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn” by Avra Margariti
For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time. Until the night before twelfth grade, when you decided to rend us asunder with a few simple words: “I would like to go back to being normal until graduation.” Normal, you said. Normal being straight. Being girlish. Being girl. What would you…