The Heavy Pour The Monsters We Make By Sara Clemens • December 13th, 2022 As storytellers, the monsters we make are so often just mirrors.
Advanced Fighting Fantasy By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 12th, 2022 First a gamebook series, then a fully-fledged RPG!
Rookie of the Year Your Post-Halloween Horror Movie Questions Answered! By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2022 Streaming random horror movies, especially without checking Rotten Tomatoes before you start them, can lead to a lot of unanswered questions concerning plot holes or peculiar character motivations.
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!
Exploits Feature My Least Favorite C-Word By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022 Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.
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.
Run It Back 1973 By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 29th, 2022 A poetic embodiment of the fever-dream feelings within The Spook Who Sat By The Door and Ganja & Hess.
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.
Heresy of Rot By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 21st, 2022 Everyday continues to be Halloween ’round here.
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.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – November 2022 By David Shimomura • November 15th, 2022 Welcome new subscribers! We’re so happy to have you aboard!
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.
Exploits Feature Les Femmes Grotesques By Noah Springer • November 10th, 2022 Victoria Dalpe’s newest collection of horror shorts offers up visions of the weird and the terrifying that will linger in your head long after you’re done reading.
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.
Call of Cthulhu 40th Anniversary By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 7th, 2022 Cthulhu may be an ageless horror, but the Call of Cthulhu RPG just turned forty!
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.
Exploits Feature The Peripheral By Sara Clemens • October 31st, 2022 Two eras, some twisty time shenanigans and virtual reality collide in a TV adaptation of William Gibson’s novel.
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.
I6: Ravenloft (Remastered) By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 31st, 2022 A return to Ravenloft…
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.