It’s a dangerous world to be a woman in Rebecca Baum’s The Brood—but the predators aren’t the male characters. The shocking power of this tale comes from an utter breakdown of female solidarity.
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A Long Road Out of Hell: Thoughts on Jacob’s Ladder, the Bardo, Horror, and the Mundane
A mind-bending exploration of Jacob’s Ladder, existential terror, and the liminal spaces between life and death that shape both creativity and consciousness.
Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Appealing and fast-paced, this novel set in 1950s Mexico is a classic tale of an attractive young woman marrying into family with sinister secrets, who finds her choices taken away, and her life and sanity under threat. True to the gothic genre, the cr …
Life Cycle of a Shadow
Properly speaking, shadows are not those places where the light is blocked. In the earliest reconstructed languages, those places have no names, though the proto-word for shadow does exist. Shadows were the beings that lived in those places of blocked light. Through the corruption of time, they have lent their name to their native homes, been subsumed by them, been forgotten.