Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Dark Fairy Tale
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic functions as both a weird Gothic horror and a fairy tale.
Listening in the Silence: Algernon Blackwood at 150
For Algernon Blackwood, the natural world is not just natural: it is animated, enchanted, redolent with presences most often detectable only apart from our five senses.
From Cthulhu to Christ: Why H. P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Despair Is Still Worth Reading
Lovecraft reminds me of just how small and loathsome I truly am apart from Christ; and he does so with carefully wrought and vivid imagination.
LOL Interwebz: The Doom That Came to ‘The Doom That Came to Atlantic City’
In Lovecraft’s world, evil is external, overwhelming, and no responsibility of ours to control; the reality is that most of us stumble into evil one innocent step at a time.
Dream Builder: Recognizing Clark Ashton Smith’s Legacy in Fiction
Relatively few people may know of Clark Ashton Smith, but he deserves wider recognition as a poetry and prose stylist whose works demonstrate the capacities of the human imagination.
Canceling the Apocalypse? Cosmic Monsters and Tiny Humans in ‘Pacific Rim’
To what extent does Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim hew to H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmicism, and to what extent does it diverge?
