The Heavy Pour Who Needs the Devil When You’ve Got the Lord? By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2017 Is Agent Dale Cooper still the hero of this story?
Revving the Engine – Albino Lullaby By Stu Horvath • August 28th, 2017 Albino Lullaby is a psychedelic horror trip: over the city and down the hole to grandmother’s house we go…
Unwinnable Monthly – August 2017 By Stu Horvath • August 16th, 2017 The August issue is out now! Find out what stories are inside and what songs to listen to while you read them.
Rookie of the Year The Bob Bang Theory By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2017 This is the water. And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
The Burnt Offering The Perils of Realness By Stu Horvath • July 28th, 2017 Forget all that other trash. This is the real deal.
Fascination On The Fifth Cord By Astrid Budgor • July 14th, 2017 “Ever since you’ve been playing detective you just can’t get anything right!”
Fascination On The Bird With the Crystal Plumage By Astrid Budgor • July 10th, 2017 Unwinnable has an ongoing column about giallo? Unwinnable has an ongoing column about giallo!
Horror’s Nostalgic Heart By Stu Horvath • June 21st, 2017 Nerdy City’s new storytelling horror RPG Rememorex is fueled by 80s nostalgia.
Why the Best Thing on the Internet Right Now is a Naked Butt By Amanda Hudgins • April 24th, 2017 It’s OK, you can look at my butt.
The Burnt Offering When the Void Looks Back By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2017 If the cosmic gods of horror are utterly indifferent to mankind, why do human cultists worship them?
The House is the Best Character in Resident Evil 7 By Sam Desatoff • March 23rd, 2017 The Bakers’ development has strict beginning and ending points, whereas the house is always shifting and evolving as the story progresses.
Diary of an Advanced Locksmith By Sam Desatoff • February 23rd, 2017 “I went to the Baker estate today to walk through the house and give them a quote. Jack Baker, the man of the house, seemed a bit…off.”
The Prettiest Nightmare By Matt Sayer • February 17th, 2017 Unspeakable horrors await you as you road trip across the unsettling beauty of small-town America.
When Escaping Beats Confronting By Matthew Byrd • February 9th, 2017 “When Resident Evil 7 is at its best, it isn’t asking you to fight. It’s asking you to escape.”
Cayne Is a Potent Mix of Body Horror and Pregnancy By Khee Hoon Chan • February 7th, 2017 “As a woman who has never given birth before, pregnancy sounds like a disquieting and grisly affair…”
Resident Evil 7’s Greatest Influence Is a Forgotten Horror Classic By Matthew Byrd • January 26th, 2017 “The only rental left was some game called Condemned: Criminal Origins. Reluctantly, I took it to the checkout counter.”
Unwinnable Monthly – The Rebellion Issue By Stu Horvath • January 20th, 2017 Now is the perfect time for a magazine dedicated to rebellion.
Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2016 – Part Two By Team Unwinnable • January 19th, 2017 Week Two passes without disaster. A reluctant optimism sets into the group. Will it last? Or will their hope and ears be dashed upon the cacophonous rocks of 2016?
Spilled Ink Franken Fran’s Thriving Medical Practice By Austin Price • January 18th, 2017 At its best, Franken Fran comes off with such a wicked charge that you feel yourself participating in its delightfully profane acts.
Kyofu no Sekai Brings the Twisted Worlds of Junji Ito to Life By Khee Hoon Chan • January 17th, 2017 Kyofu no sekai, an in-development card-based videogame about cosmic horror, has captured the enigmatic spirit of Ito’s stories extraordinarily well.
Unwinnable Listens to the Best Music of 2016 – Part One By Team Unwinnable • January 11th, 2017 Week One is over. We’ve suffered no casualties. 2017 is a miracle.
Fear in a Handful of Cards By Jason McMaster • January 5th, 2017 “You’re trapped in your parlor. The door is gone. Outside you hear the skittering of… things. Things you can’t comprehend.”
Why is There All This MPreg in Death Stranding? By Amanda Hudgins • January 2nd, 2017 In Death Stranding, it’s not terribly hard to see the hints of one of fanfiction (and horrors) beloved tropes, that of male pregnancy.
Spilled Ink Happiness Volume 2, “A Lovely Monstrosity” By Austin Price • December 14th, 2016 “The horrors in Happiness accumulate slowly…”
Spilled Ink Blood Blockade Battlefront, or “Fight Nights, Blood City” By Austin Price • November 18th, 2016 “What Nightow understands is that New York City is a kind of barely contained chaos bursting with wild energy and implicit violence.”
The Cinematography of Horror Games By Matthew Byrd • November 17th, 2016 “The fact that no one clear camera solution exists means that the horror genre serves as a playground for video game cinematography.”
Spilled Ink Unhinging the Familiar By Austin Price • November 16th, 2016 Shin Godzilla finally puts the horror back into the iconic kaiju.
HBO’s Westworld Might Go Where The Matrix Didn’t Dare By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2016 If Westworld is a rabbit hole, how deep does it go?
Revving The Engine: Perception By Stu Horvath • October 31st, 2016 Stu Horvath talks with Irrational Games vet Bill Gardner about his new project, Perception, a first person game that follows a blind woman into a horrific mystery.
Monster Issue – Theme Recap By Team Unwinnable • October 28th, 2016 Sink your fangs into excerpts from all the theme stories in the Unwinnable Monsters issue.
Life in the Monster Squad By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2016 Orrin Grey joined The Monster Squad as a kid and life’s never been the same since.
They Could be Monsters, For All You Know By Livia Llewellyn • October 25th, 2016 Scores of neighborhood children circle an object on their bikes in the late afternoon sun, chanting as they pelt it with rocks and sticks. When they scatter and dart past you, their grins seem impossibly thin and wide. Were those extra teeth?
If You’re Not Watching Ash vs Evil Dead, You’re Doing It Wrong By Dominic Preston • October 5th, 2016 Ash is still a doofus, still has a boomstick and a chainsaw hand, and there’s still enough blood to make Carrie blush. And it still rules.
Spilled Ink Biomega: A Nightmare of Scale By Austin Price • September 14th, 2016 “People are so insignificant it’s no wonder their stories fail to register, and no wonder that Biomega unnerves me in the way only the best science fiction can”
Hate Issue – Recap By Team Unwinnable • September 2nd, 2016 Excerpts from the Unwinnable Monthly Hate issue.
Who is Eleven’s Papa? A Stranger Things Theory By Megan Condis • August 29th, 2016 There are a lot of questions to be answered in the wake of Season 1. Who is Eleven’s papa? Can Steve’s hair get any taller?
Werewolves These Days By Michael Edwards • August 23rd, 2016 From Lon Chaney to furry fiends knocking back cold ones, we’re talking all things werewolves.
The Blunt Force of Addiction By Matthew Byrd • August 9th, 2016 When you’ re addicted, your life becomes a series of cliches.
Fear the Old Blood By Hazel Monforton • August 2nd, 2016 “While Christ suffered and died on the Cross, so too the inhabitants of Yharnam: divinity is a fleshly thing.” Religion, games, we’re all Blood Starved Beasts.