In 2021, Portuguese author Mário Coelho made a splash with his short story ‘Ootheca’ in Strange Horizons. ‘Ootheca’ is the tragic tale of a man who wakes up with cockroaches for teeth, and his attempts to find companionship in an unstable world where sunlight is rationed and citizens are only ever one sleep away from…
Category: Issue #6
Book Review: The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations by Jonathan Raab – Review by Zachary Gillan
Jonathan Raab’s The Secret Goatman Spookshow and Other Psychological Warfare Operations has an utterly perfect epigraph. “I’ve got a message for you, and you’re not going to like it.” It comes from John Carpenter’s 1987 film Prince of Darkness, and it’s a precis of this excellent collection. In the film it is uttered by a…
Book Review: Antifa Splatterpunk edited by Eric Raglin – Review by Zachary Gillan
Antifa Splatterpunk, edited by Eric Raglin, is an anthology designed to strike a killing blow against the absurd truism that horror is an innately conservative genre. Splatterpunk, a violently transgressive, gore-drenched subgenre that sprang out of horror in the 1980s, isn’t really my thing. Explicitly leftist horror/weird fiction, on the other hand, very much is,…
Destituent Power and Divine Economy in Elden Ring by Simon McNeil
With a single run-through playtime approaching 120 hours, there are few pieces of art I’ve spent as long with as Elden Ring. This 2022 computer game from the famous Japanese company FromSoftware is an expansive open-world fantasy whose story was authored by Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin and its setting is rife with…
The Best Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror at London Film Festival By Liam Macleod
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Báthory: from the Witch’s Bite to the Vampiress’ Fangs by Rosemary Thorne
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‘Little Screams’ by S. M. Hallow
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‘Holy Water’ by AN Grace
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‘The Golem’s Joy’ by Zachary Rosenberg
The synagogue burns so red that the night sky is dyed in all the colors of blood a human body can produce. I stand amidst the flames feeling lashing igneous whips against my body. I stare at what has been done unto us yet again and I long for the violence that will follow. The…
‘They Say the Sky Was Blue Once’ by Rebecca Birch
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