Here Be Monsters Puberty is Hell: Growing up in Silent Hill f By Emma Kostopolus • February 3rd, 2026 Silent Hill f did nothing else so much as remind me just how badly being a teenager sucked.
Here Be Monsters Hear Me Out: On the Pitfalls of Resident Evil 4 By Emma Kostopolus • December 4th, 2025 Try as I might, I simply cannot overcome my animosity towards this game, this most lauded and vaunted of the Evils which Reside.
Here Be Monsters The Limits of Powerlessness: On Silent Hill f By Emma Kostopolus • November 4th, 2025 The game appears to want to have it both ways – “run and hide” in tandem with “stand and fight.”
Here Be Monsters Nightmare Logic and the Horrors of Confusion By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2025 Each person trapped in Silent Hill is seeing their own unique version of Hell, and only occasionally do those visions overlap.
Here Be Monsters Dead Wives’ Society: Male Guilt and the Horror Game By Emma Kostopolus • September 9th, 2025 The important things remain the same: there is a man, there are the horrors and there is the specter of the woman he loved and lost.
Here Be Monsters The Global Haunted House: Horror and Communal Experience By Emma Kostopolus • August 5th, 2025 Horror media can serve as a great equalizer, showing us that we’re all ultimately afraid of the same things.
Here Be Monsters The Thinking Man’s Doom: Why The Marauder Rules, Actually By Emma Kostopolus • July 2nd, 2025 Dark Ages is a sadly watered-down version of the thing I loved most about the controversial Marauder: how much it made me think about how to play.
Here Be Monsters Feeding the Cartoon Gators: Cult of the Lamb and Moral Disengagement By Emma Kostopolus • May 30th, 2025 Everybody has some angry, sad, anxious and ultimately violent shit they want to work out.
Here Be Monsters The Banality of AI Hell, or: We Were Worried About the Wrong Thing By Emma Kostopolus • May 6th, 2025 I know you’re watching me type this, Copilot.
Here Be Monsters Letting the Days Go By: The Historical Horrors of Pentiment By Emma Kostopolus • April 9th, 2025 The history we record and maintain is a “fable agreed upon” written by the people in positions of power.
