Interlinked The Prince of Hades Laughs with a Mouthful of Blood By Phoenix Simms • December 8th, 2022 Zagreus is definitely a liminal figure trapped in a purgatorial space – and this metaphor extends to the entire setting of Hades.
Collision Detection Better Living, Better Writing By Ben Sailer • December 7th, 2022 Bad Writer shows how becoming a more interesting writer starts with living a more interesting life and there’s nothing interesting about joyless overwork.
Mind Palaces Go In Blind By Maddi Chilton • December 6th, 2022 There’s a very simple reason why you have to go into Barbarian blind: because the big twist makes no sense.
Here Be Monsters Limited Inventory and Staggered Saves By Emma Kostopolus • December 5th, 2022 The rhetoric of classic survival horror.
This Mortal Coyle On Organizing My Skyrim Library and Living in a Human Body By Deirdre Coyle • December 2nd, 2022 Organizing books makes me not care that I’m a decaying meat-coated skeleton living by the light of a dying star. I love skeletons! I love stars! Who cares, just let me read!
Self-Insert Elevating Trash By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022 If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2022 By Noah Springer • November 28th, 2022 Noah shifts his focus from monsters and the hip hop of the past to focus on the here and now.
Revving the Engine Breaking Away From the Fold By Justin Reeve • November 23rd, 2022 A Tale of Paper: Refolded poses a number of interesting questions including the extent to which our most deeply held hopes and ambitions can impact the people around us.
Feature Story What Creates Class In The Internet Age? By Ciaran Doran • November 22nd, 2022 Worldwide internet penetration is only hovering at around 50%. That means that every other person worldwide has no independent chance to read this article.
Feature Excerpt Surviving Humanity By Jon Bailes • November 21st, 2022 The cat, the fox and the apocalypse.
Feature Excerpt Lost in Translation By Aidan Moher • November 18th, 2022 The Sega Saturn is one of the best JRPG consoles of all time…just not in the west.
Here's the Thing The Monster in My Belly By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2022 Rob talks about the unpleasant stomach troubles he’s had to deal with for the past several years, all thanks to some bad seafood.
Forms in Light Monstrous Architecture By Justin Reeve • November 11th, 2022 Neoclassicism never actually had any positive connotations and became increasingly sinister over time, going from somewhat dodgy to entirely despicable.
Always Autumn There are Decapitations By Autumn Wright • November 10th, 2022 Too Many Cooks is at once an absurdist comedy sketch and a critical cautionary tale, full of pastiche referents like “relics of a time that we long for but shouldn’t return to.”
Casting Deep Meteo Barry Windsor-Smith’s Taxonomy of Monsters By Levi Rubeck • November 9th, 2022 Barry Windsor-Smith is a veteran of superhero comics, and as such, knows that you can’t title a book Monsters without a menagerie of such.
Area of Effect Contested Landscapes By Jay Castello • November 8th, 2022 Horror is perhaps the genre where contested space is most easily found lurking.
Another Look Evil in Residence By Yussef Cole • November 7th, 2022 Resident Evil is a Hellraiser puzzle box; an invitation to partake, to play along, only to realize (too late) that the controller itself is a portal through which the game itself can reach out and draw its horrifying tithe.
Rookie of the Year Introducing “Pocket Monsters” By Matt Marrone • November 4th, 2022 Pokémon is a portmanteau. It means pocket monsters.
Interlinked Half-Humans and Half-Lives By Phoenix Simms • November 3rd, 2022 At the throbbing heart of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a fear of different beings mixing to create a monstrous one.
Collision Detection The Boomer Death Cult of Possum Springs By Ben Sailer • November 2nd, 2022 As the Boomer death cult in Night In The Woods serves to remind us, sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones that could actually exist.
Here Be Monsters On Being Chased By Emma Kostopolus • October 31st, 2022 These monsters are more than bundles of code: they are a concrete reminder of the lack of control that we have over our own lives.
Self-Insert Monstrous Pregnancy By Amanda Hudgins • October 28th, 2022 Birth is one of the few acts of love that can kill you, a messy, bloody affair that demands everything of the birthing partner.
Past Presence Roadwarden By Emily Price • October 27th, 2022 There is a gate made out of living thorns, a tree that drinks your blood, and a river with birds that call to you in human screams.
Run It Back 1943 By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 26th, 2022 How do you see that the world is bigger and more full of mystery than you had ever imagined and yet still your purest impulse continues to be to subjugate?
Eyeing Elsewhere On Monsters and Ourselves By Phillip Russell • October 25th, 2022 Hell in the Hellraiser universe reflects back to others what they struggle with the most. It’s a fluid space that changes as our own sense of self does.
The Beat Box Aliens and Monsters By Noah Springer • October 24th, 2022 Aliens and monsters both have roots in the history of pop music, but it’s hip hop in which the two are combined most effectively, specifically in the work of Kool Keith and MF DOOM.
Revving the Engine Mind the Gap By Caroline Delbert • October 22nd, 2022 In The Gap, you play as neuroscientist Joshua Hayes, who is suffering from a degenerative genetic disease. Caroline speaks with the developers.
Feature Story Monstrous By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022 Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.
Feature Story Dimensions By Caroline Delbert • October 21st, 2022 With enough narrative room, you become the monster.
Feature Story Whose Body Horror Is It, Anyway? By Ruth Cassidy • October 21st, 2022 A look at body horror, the just world fallacy, and lungs that turn into glass.
Feature Excerpt Monsters Built by Human Hands By Hyacinth Nil • October 20th, 2022 A close reading of Lakeview Hotel.
Feature Excerpt Stop/Motion By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2022 Ray Harryhausen and the magic of stop motion monsters.
Here's the Thing I’ve Been Staring At This For Two Days By Rob Rich • October 14th, 2022 Rob had so much trouble figuring out what to write about, he decided to write about how tough it can be to figure out what to write sometimes.
Forms in Light How to Build a Racetrack By Justin Reeve • October 13th, 2022 Adopting a broader view as to what constitutes architecture can be a worthwhile endeavor.
Always Autumn Another Meaning of the Words By Autumn Wright • October 12th, 2022 The alphabetical arrangement of Alaska for Looking brings attention to the nonmaterial components of text as a mode, and to the construction of the novel as a form rather than material object.
Casting Deep Meteo The Fresh and Vertical By Levi Rubeck • October 11th, 2022 Lately Levi’s been picking through Severed Steel, a title still honing in on the parkour and the shooting but sidestepping long set pieces for a series of puzzle rooms and time dilation.
Another Look End of Zelda By Yussef Cole • October 7th, 2022 Perhaps in Hyrule, which was apparently inspired by the local woodlands of its designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, we could grasp some of that same fantasy, that escape.
Rookie of the Year Living the American Stream By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022 America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.
Interlinked Acquiring Phantomilian By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022 Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.
Mind Palaces Evil as Can Be By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022 The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.
