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.”
Halcyon + On + On Keeping it in the Loop By Dan Solberg • November 9th, 2022 Electronic duo Orbital celebrate 30 years with a compilation of new tracks, self-reworks, and guest remixes of their classics. It’s more lively than most “greatest hits” albums, but can’t fully buck convention.
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.
Dimensions An Hour Making Games in the Belly of Demonicon By Caroline Delbert • November 8th, 2022 Half a dozen writers and developers signed up for a one-hour game jam over Halloween weekend. What were they (and I) thinking?
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.
Made of Lines and Vines The Stray’s Plummet Into a Strange Future By Saniya Ahmed • November 3rd, 2022 The environmental storytelling of Stray depicts a futuristic world of stereotypes.
