In 2022, small Canadian horror press Undertow Publications released two of my favourite books of the year: the unsettling, Cronenberg-esque Victorian body horror Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, and The Talosite by Rebecca Campbell, a science fiction/horror story in the tradition of Mary Shelley set in the mud, blood and trench laboratories of First World War…
Category: Issue #7
Contextualising the Uncanny: Zachary Gillan reviews The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
When Tananarive Due began writing fiction in the early 1990s, Beloved was absurdly left out of the horror canon, she wasn’t aware of Octavia Butler’s work, and her earliest fiction centered “contemporary realism about white male protagonists having epiphanies.” It’s a bleak thought to imagine a world where she continued on that trajectory. Thankfully, in…
A Haunted Way of Life: Zachary Gillan reviews The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
Applying the capitalist ideology of endless growth to horror fiction, one might decide that hauntings need to be bigger. Instead of a house, detached and single-family, what if a high rise was haunted? What about an entire metropolis? What if our whole way of life is haunted? Andrew F. Sullivan’s The Marigold sets out to…
Capitalism and the Labour of Art: Getting Paid in the Automation Age by Emmie Christie
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Something Bright and Brittle: Transobjectivity and Aesthetics in the Matrix, The Invisibles and The Wicked + The Divine by Jean Brigid-Prehn
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I Want to Feel You from the Inside: A Review of Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future by Josh Pearce
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‘Canonical Victims’ by Carson Winter
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‘MYCOPHILIA’ by C.B. Blanchard
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‘Endless Yearning’ by Judith Shadford
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‘The Last Sound of the Moon’ by Gessica Sakamoto Martini
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