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Here Be Monsters
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.

Here Be Monsters
A screenshot from Dead Space shows a terrifying space monster attacking Isaac Clarke as he tries to scramble away backwards in his spacesuit.

In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024

Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.

Here Be Monsters

The Unsettling Mindfulness of Horror

By Emma Kostopolus • August 2nd, 2023

To succeed in a survival horror experience, mindfulness is an incredibly helpful tool.

Here Be Monsters
A figure in a spacesuit explores a yellow-hued alien landscape.

Dead Space’s Unsettling Colonialism

By Emma Kostopolus • March 2nd, 2023

If you’ve been reading this column, like, at all, you know that praise must always be coupled with loving criticism.

The Burnt Offering

Neverending Horror

By Stu Horvath • October 20th, 2014

Stu Horvath wonders why videogames aren’t so great at horror. Then he plays Neverending Nightmares.

The Sporting Bane of Games

By Stephen Beirne • July 1st, 2013

Stephen Beirne embarks on a Swiftian treatise outlining the great tyranny of sports games.

Beginnings in the Dead Space Trilogy

By Dan Crabtree • February 25th, 2013

Dan Crabtree ventures into the openings of the Dead Space games.

Fear No More

By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2013

Who’s afraid of the big bad necromorphs? Not Stu Horvath.

The American Culture of Horror: Dead Space

By Stu Horvath • January 28th, 2011

Unwinnable’s look at American Horror comes to an end with a look at the Dead Space videogame franchise and our Special Relationship with the United Kingdom.

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