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Tag: Suburban Nightmares

Here's the Thing
A screenshot from Saturnalia shows a woman in an 80's sweater standing inside a church, the whole scene lit by an otherworldly purple light.

The New Maniac Mansion

By Rob Rich • November 20th, 2024

Lucasfilm Games’ classic adventure hasn’t gotten a remake or a remaster, but there’s one game in particular that sure feels like it’s carrying that torch (and running with it).

Forms in Light
Key art from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 shows the parking lot of a diner destroyed and on fire as fighter jets fly by overhead.

Suburbia Under Siege

By Justin Reeve • November 20th, 2024

The idea of the homefront being invaded no longer feels like a distant fantasy these days.

Noah's Beat Box
A picturesque red-brick house on a suburban street, lawn neatly kept.

A Nightmare on Valleyfield Drive

By Noah Springer • November 19th, 2024

We bought our “dream” home. A three-bed, one-bath mid-century ramble in the St. Louis suburb, Glennmeadow. But then everything changed.

Casting Deep Meteo
A photograph of some autumnal woods shrouded in a grey mist.

Here are the Woods

By Levi Rubeck • November 15th, 2024

It’s the liminal woods between cities and suburbs, suburbs and exurbs, farmhouses and fields that yield the highest chance of finding porn.

Totally Generic
A bank of fog rolls ashore just of the coast of Maine.

Losing Christina

By Natasha Ochshorn • November 14th, 2024

The Fog is a novel about gaslighting, although that term is never used.

Area of Effect
Students mill about in droves and crisp blue blazers in a grand hall at Durham University.

The Local Horror of Dark Academia

By Jay Castello • November 13th, 2024

Babel is one of the books most keen to explore the dark part of dark academia; the power behind it, not just the hue of an 18th century wood-panel library.

Rookie of the Year
A bird's eye view of a suburban neighborhood.

Suburbia’s End

By Matt Marrone • November 12th, 2024

We were in our own dimensional rift and saw it all at once – the flashing and clashing lightsabers, the pillars, the darkness, the red eyes, each other.

Interlinked
A still from It Follows shows a young woman with long blonde hair looking over her shoulder as she approaches a decrepit house.

Zoning Out

By Phoenix Simms • November 8th, 2024

Being anywhere is better than trapped in the suburbs.

Here Be Monsters
A mustachioed man in an argyle sweater vest menacingly holds a shovel in art from the game Hello Neighbor.

The Discomfort of “Hello Neighbor” in Contemporary America

By Emma Kostopolus • November 7th, 2024

The people under the tightest scrutiny are already the most vulnerable – our queer, trans, and POC neighbors.

Mind Palaces
A lonesome two-lane road, illuminated by headlights, stretches into the dark distance.

A Girl Drives Home Alone at Night

By Maddi Chilton • November 6th, 2024

In the white glow of headlights there’s nothing but waste.

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