Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir is a formally dazzling and emotionally acute testimony of an abusive queer relationship.
Read moreSouthern Gothic: Interviewing "The Past is Never" Author Tiffany Quay Tyson
An interview with Tiffany Quay Tyson.
Read moreSouthern Gothic: Wrestling With Our Demons -- Part 2, Novels
Zora Neale Hurston, pear blossoms, William Gay, Everglades gator
Head into the swamps with some fallen families and wild grotesques in Part 2 of our Southern Gothic extravaganza.
Read more"The Atrocities": A Concentrated Gothic Pill
How much more Gothic could The Atrocities be? None. None more Gothic.
Read moreSouthern Gothic: The Present Haunted by the Past -- Part I, Short Stories
Eudora Welty, trees in the White River, Tania James, and a mural in Prescott, Arkansas (not-so-accidentally chosen because it's the hometown of Amanda's grandma)
An exploration of Southern Gothic speculative literature.
Read moreCarmen Maria Machado's New Gothic: "Her Body and Other Parties"
Carmen Maria Machado's astonishing short story collection queers reality itself.
Read moreAn Interview With Brenna Yovanoff
Brenna Yovanoff's Gothic monsters are full of teeth, and she is an author full of surprises.
Read moreMatrilineal Moon Cults & Creepy Orphans
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Charles Lambert's The Children's Home both want to know, "Are you my mummy?" (and if you're not, then please tell me where you've stashed her and DON'T mention poison).
Read moreChildbirth Gothic: BELOVED, ALIEN, and ROE v. WADE
How the abortion debates of the 20th century delivered a new Gothic aesthetic
Read moreMarisha Pessl’s NIGHT FILM, Ann Radcliffe’s THE ITALIAN, and the Legacy of the Gothic Romance
How does the modern Gothic novel stack up against 1797's finest? Fiction Unbound uncovers some dark secrets.
Read moreSpeculative Slavery: Two PYMs and an Irritating Hologram
Illustration for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, A.D. McCormick (1898).
A look at how slavery haunts the speculative imagination, from Mat Johnson's Pym to Star Trek: Voyager's holographic Doctor.
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