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.
The Burnt Offering Summer Reading By Stu Horvath • August 2nd, 2016 There’s nothing like reading about cosmic meaninglessness while laying on the beach!
The Daily Chthonicle: A Letter to the (Next) Editor By Declan Taggart • April 22nd, 2016 Driven insane by the unspellcheckable Lovecraftian horror of it all.
Red Thread Fever By Stu Horvath • March 21st, 2016 Not all tabletop role-playing games use handouts right, but when they do, it is amazing.
Digital Arachnophobia By David Shimomura • March 7th, 2016 What to do when every game you want to play is loaded with hairy, meaty, crawling terrors?
How to Watch The Big Short and Stay Smarter Than the Average Chimp By Declan Taggart • March 4th, 2016 Why does the boiling rage of the collective simmer down to a flavorless consomme of apathy, resentment and mistrust?
Fervescence: An Interview with Livia Llewellyn By Stu Horvath • February 26th, 2016 “Horror and erotica occupy the same dark edges of human existence.” Stu Horvath interviews erotic horror writer Livia Llewellyn.
Talking About We Need to Talk About Kevin By James Murff • February 25th, 2016 “It’s a ponderous and artfully made movie that inexorably draws its characters into a tragedy”
The Japan Issue – Variation Recap By Team Unwinnable • February 22nd, 2016 Horror author Livia Llewellyn, Rocket League, Mad Max: Fury Road, Hitman: Agent 47 and Hypercharge – all in this Unwinnable Monthly.
The Japan Issue – Thoughts Recap By Team Unwinnable • February 22nd, 2016 Our regular columnists remains as eclectic as ever in the February issue, covering everything from The Muppets to the 2016 presidential campaign trail.
Please, For the Love of God, Don’t Watch The Ridiculous Six By Megan Condis • February 1st, 2016 Ridiculous 6 is 6 kinds of ridiculously bad.
Downfall Asks: How Do You Want to Spend the End of Days? By Megan Condis • January 18th, 2016 A floating island, falsified data, collaboration and a society about to slide into oblivion.
Words like Hammers, Sentences like Bombs By Stu Horvath • December 4th, 2015 Stu Horvath reads Laird Barron’s latest novella, X’s for Eyes.
Misery on Broadway: Stick to Action By Amanda Hudgins • December 1st, 2015 John McClane should have stayed in Chicago.
Don’t Starve on Thanksgiving By Jeremiah Cheney • November 30th, 2015 It’s a hard life out there in… wherever Don’t Starve takes place. Wilson and his gnome buddy aren’t going to let Thanksgiving pass them by, though.
It’s Time to Forgive Constantine By Amanda Hudgins • November 23rd, 2015 Keenu’s Constantine is turning 10 years old, maybe it’s time to finally time to forgive the film for its one major gripe. Even God forgave him, can’t you?
Return to Call of Cthulhu – UW69 By Stu Horvath • November 13th, 2015 Stu is looking forward to driving his RPG players insane in Call of Cthulhu. Plus: We’re going MONTHLY!
The Burnt Offering Content is the Opiate of the Masthead By Stu Horvath • November 6th, 2015 A website that chases advertising dollars with lists and re-writes is the same as a factory that pumps toxic waste into the ecosystem.
Regression: A Scene from a Career in Decline By Declan Taggart • November 6th, 2015 Regression is so much like a TV movie. Every time I look at the cinema screen, I’m surprised. I think: Wow. Why’s this TV so big? And how did it get into our living room?
A Collection of Apocalypses: An Interview with Paul Tremblay By Stu Horvath • November 5th, 2015 “When horror is done well, I love the sense of awe, of holy-shit-what-is-that…” Stu talks with horror writer Paul Tremblay on his influences, past and future.
The Co-op of Cthulhu By D.M. Olson • November 5th, 2015 “Arkham Horror could be used as a case study of almost perfectly executed mechanics as narrative.” D.M. Olson dies to Cthulhu in two Lovecraftian board games.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: The Scariest, Saddest Song of 2016 By Matt Marrone • November 5th, 2015 “What happens when you can’t even remember those favorite things that make you not feel so bad?” Matt Marrone on the horror of Daughter’s first track of 2016.
Five Hours with Freddy Clones By Dave Andrews • November 3rd, 2015 There are a lot of options for cheap scares this Halloween season. More than you might think.
Cult Horror Review: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats By Megan Condis • November 2nd, 2015 The Venus Fly Trap tactics of this diabolical bed are second to none.
Nailbiter & The Real Murder City By Charles Singletary • November 2nd, 2015 In the red splashed pages of the comic book Nailbiter, a detective hunts the evil that has shaped Buckaroo, Oregon into a birth place for serial killers. In Murder City, a detective chronicles the real live serial killer capital in London, Ontario.
The Burnt Offering The Howls of the Damned By Stu Horvath • October 30th, 2015 Where are the songs that make us scream in terror?
Good-Bad Movies for the Season By James Murff • October 30th, 2015 “There’s very little tension and all of the horror elements are funny, rather than frightening. Maybe that’s the point, though.”
The Fear of Missing Out on Fear By Riley MacLeod • October 28th, 2015 A distaste for horror films might drive us apart, but it can also bring us together.
Grandpa Pip’s Birthday or Why Fred’s on Fire Today By Declan Taggart • October 27th, 2015 Grandpa Pip’s Birthday belongs to that age-old tradition of art that emphasizes just how terrible life is by gorging on cuteness and whimsy.
What We Do in the Shadows is Unexpectedly Sweet By Tim Mulkerin • October 26th, 2015 “The film shows us how this group of undead functions day-to-day, which oddly is not unlike my experience in a college dorm room.”
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: I am Google Cardboard By Matt Marrone • October 22nd, 2015 “I am Google Cardboard. I come to this realization slowly.” Matt Marrone explores VR, horror, and childhood with a cardboard case and an expensive smartphone.
Trick r’ Treat Is Back. Just Not On the Screen. By Jeremiah Cheney • October 20th, 2015 There are werewolves. There are zombies. There’s a version of Sackboy when he’s off his medication. What more do you need from Halloween entertainment?
Fearing Fear Itself By Rob Rich • October 14th, 2015 “Jump scares and monsters are nothing compared to SOMA’s true horrors.” Rob Rich dives deep with Frictional Games’ newest horror title.
Cassilda’s Songs By Bill Coberly • September 17th, 2015 “…the keys of the piano, now transformed from their pedestrian black-and-white into a dozen nameless colors, spinning and dancing and laughing with me…”
Senses All Turned Up: An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones By Stu Horvath • August 31st, 2015 “It’s not just being scary on the page, it’s being scary in a way that plugs into the psyche of the audience.” Stu interviews horror writer Stephen Graham Jones
The Burnt Offering The Dread of Knowing in Until Dawn By Stu Horvath • August 28th, 2015 In Until Dawn, it is fear of the known that will give you nightmares.
D-Construction By Brian Crimmins • July 1st, 2015 Brian deconstructs Laura, protagonist of survival horror oldie D.