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A screenshot from Silent Hill 2 Remake shows a man watching a woman walk deeper into a flaming building.

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.

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James Sunderland from the Silent Hill 2 Remake gazes into the mirror while torturously touching his own face.

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.

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A close-up shot of the main animatronic animals from Five Nights at Freddy's, all of them creepily grinning.

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.

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DOOM Eternal's Marauder stands staring down steely-eyed at the viewer, horns curved up towards the stormy sky.

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.

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Art from Cult of the Lamb shows a cloaked lamb levitating above a pentacle as several other woodland creatures gaze at the scene reverantly.

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.

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SHODAN from System Shock gazes ominously at the viewer, electric green and purple beams of light shooting outward from her face.

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.

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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.

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