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Horns, Feathers, Scales: Reclaiming Genderqueer MonstrousnessContent warning: body horror, implied self-harm. I. In my early twenties I had a reoccurring waking dream. Sometimes I saw it as I was...
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Discovering the Lies Within the Truth: Revealing The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose UtomiThe Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming. Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the...
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Different Forms of Reading Still CountWhat I remember best are the textures. The tan naugahyde chair, already old and worn, eventually sacrificed to several generations of kitten...
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Here Are the Nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson AwardsThe nominees for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced! The awards recognize “outstanding achievement in the literature of...
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Welcome to the Elantris Reread: Prologue Through Chapter TwoLyn: Hello, Cosmere Chickens, and welcome to a brand-spankin’ new reread featuring your resident Sanderson rereaders! This time around we’re...
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Yeah… John Wick: Chapter 4 Will Get a Director’s CutJohn Wick: Chapter 4 is one of the best Wick films out there, no small feat for the fourth installment in a franchise. The movie is also...
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The Last of Us and Chernobyl Writer Helped Draft Script for Dune: Part TwoCraig Mazin, the writer and showrunner behind HBO’s Chernobyl and The Last Of Us , has got some spice on his hands. In a recent interview,...
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No Mask: E. Catherine Tobler’s “She Will Be Raised a Queen”Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical...
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Season Four of Solar Opposites Will Have Dan Stevens Voice Korvo, and It’s GreatThe fourth season of Solar Opposites will see a new voice behind Korvo, and it all makes sense because science. It also all makes sense...
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Read an Excerpt From The Splinter in the SkyThe dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last...
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Skrull — Secret Invasion’s “Resurrection”While they’ve always been antagonistic in the comics, the Skrulls were portrayed as sympathetic refugees, victims of Kree imperialism, in...
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Unreliable Narrators, Unrealized Stories, and the Unexpected Perils of Hate-ReadingI’m not much of a hate-reader. Life is short, time is precious, and I am lazy. But there are exceptions. There are times when I get...
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20 Years Later, Ang Lee’s Hulk Still Lingers in the MindTwenty years ago, on the twentieth day of June, one of the strangest and most memorable superhero films I’ve ever seen was released; it was...
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Ten Essential Short Stories by Trans AuthorsThe first story I ever let myself write about gender was about a shape-shifting super spy. It was the summer of 2018 during my third week at...
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Revealing We Are the Crisis by Cadwell TurnbullThe world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows… We’re thrilled to share the cover of...
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After the Animal Flesh BeingsA post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after life ceases to...
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Read the First Three Chapters of CalamityShe’s got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member… We’re thrilled to share an excerpt...
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Outlander Rescues Itself from the Doldrums with “A Life Well Lost”Outlander season 7 continues to be plagued by the series’ issue of a slow-moving premiere, but at least by the end of “A Life...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “The Council”“The Council” Written by Manny Coto Directed by David Livingston Season 3, Episode 22 Production episode 074 Original air...
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Subversion in Superstition: “The Ash Tree” by M.R. JamesWelcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent , where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by...
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The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest1 At some point on the night of November 24, 2015, the Foodtown grocery at 148th and St. Nicholas caught fire. In the spring of that...
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Shapeshifting as a Superpower in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among ThievesThis chapter of the Bestiary has about run its course with landlocked shapeshifters. The majority of them are written rather than filmed—except...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: A New Lord Meets a Former Queen in The Path of Daggers (Part 5)I’m doing my “Robert Jordan loves dramatic irony and so do I” dance this week, as Perrin and his party run into Morgase and hers. But of...
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Netflix’s Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Series Is Coming Next YearIt’s a story a long time in the making, but it’s really real—and we have the first teaser (such as it is!). It’s been...
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Five Novels Featuring Political Scandals and SkulduggeryEmbarrassing secrets and the lengths to which people in power will go to conceal them is a plot seed to which many authors (of speculative and...
