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Editorial Announcement for 2021
We’ve got some big changes coming your way next year. Read more about them here!
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Interview: Molly Tanzer
Molly Tanzer is the author of The Diabolist’s Library trilogy: Creatures of Will and Temper, the Locus Award-nominated Creatures of Want and Ruin, and the forthcoming Creatures of Charm and Hunger. She is also the author of the weird western Vermilion, an io9 and NPR “Best Book” of 2015, and the British Fantasy Award-nominated collection, A Pretty Mouth. She lives outside Boulder, CO, with her cat, the Toad.
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Editorial Announcement for 2021
We’ve got some big changes coming your way next year. Read more about them here!
Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro
“Decorating with Luke” is made all the more chilling by the direct, matter-of-fact tone of the narrative. Tell us something of what inspired this tale of deliberate, calculated horror. I have no clear conceptual impetus, no fascinating anecdote of the moment of inspiration: just the title. The construction struck me as potentially ambiguous, and from […]
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The H Word: The Horror of Solitude
Is it worse to be lonely in a crowded room or lonely in an empty one? Perhaps you have an immediate response to this, one you’ve pondered before now. It’s certainly not a new question, but the truth is that most of us have never had much of a chance to really know for sure. Even those who pride themselves on being introverted are often forced to spend a tremendous amount of time with other people. The average life, in fact, tends to be arranged around interaction.
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Editorial: May 2020
Be sure to read the editorial for a rundown of this month’s skin-crawling content, plus all our news and updates.
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Author Spotlight: Yohanca Delgado and Claire Wrenwood
When we sat down to write the story, we each brought with us a set of ideas that interested us individually, and over many days and glasses of wine, we found our way into a story that brought those elements together. I’m deeply invested in writing about the working class Latinx experience, but I’d never written horror before. Co-crafting a horror plot was an excellent opportunity to examine the elements of suspense more closely
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Media Review: April 2020
Readers, Adam-Troy Castro has questions about alpacas. Don’t miss his review of Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space.
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Author Spotlight: Millie Ho
Desperation is very relatable. We’ve all been in situations where we don’t feel good enough. We may have even been shamed for being ourselves or had our trust broken by someone we thought loved us. I think humanizing the supernatural comes easily when you’re being honest. I wrote this story in a blind animalistic frenzy, with no filters and no blueprints except the map of my own experiences. It was a delight to write this and finally crystallize on the page my thoughts about power, injustice, and ultimately, self-love.
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The H Word: Mental Health, Ableism, and the Horror Genre
Our genre isn’t known for its warm and compassionate embrace of disability. From physical disfigurement to mental illness, those with disabilities are an all-too-convenient Other to demonize. The current battle for greater inclusion in the genres continues to shed light on those stories and voices that have been excluded. As we look beyond race, gender, and sexuality for inclusion and representation, ability is vital for us to reexamine.
