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Halloween

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Hallow Again

  • Brandon Hicks
  • October 30, 2016
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • October 28, 2016
With Halloween a scant three days away, it’s the perfect time to curl up with some spooky fiction and get yourself delightfully creeped out. But this week’s story doesn’t rely…
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  • Fiction
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Rumpus Original Fiction: How to Become a Tiger

  • Katie Darby Mullins
  • October 28, 2016
Tigers are bigger than my comprehension. That’s what I want. I want to be bigger than I am, so big I can’t even imagine it, so real I can’t ever be misinterpreted.
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  • Music

The Perfect Eerie Piano Scale

  • Liz Wood
  • October 27, 2016
In honor of Halloween, Consequence of Sound has collected what they deem the “10 Essential Horror Movie Scores.” Following Scorsese’s argument that music and film are intrinsically tied, “[b]ecause there’s…
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Tales from the Comment Crypt

  • Rosamund Lannin
  • October 24, 2016
Halloween comes early with Jezebel’s annual Spooky Story Contest, where readers leave their terrifying tales in the comments (they can also be emailed to madeleine@jezebel.com). Other than that, the rules…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #8: Dappled Things

  • Charles Kruger
  • October 21, 2016
The small town where I have recently landed is ugly and beautiful. Walk down the main street: there are a few old gems like an ancient and glorious Masonic Hall,…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Monkey Men

  • Chris Vanjonack
  • July 22, 2016
Still lying on the bed in the Wausau hotel room, I started counting ceiling tiles. From above the covers. Not under. Never under. I always feel constricted, under.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Tara Laskowski

  • Tyrese L. Coleman
  • June 25, 2016
I realized that I’m interested in how people change when something terrible happens to someone else.
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John Carpenter’s World Tour

  • Liz Wood
  • May 13, 2016
The horror master has formed a band (including his son and godson), and is embarking on a world tour to perform his own reworked versions of the soundtracks to Halloween, Escape From…
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Unicorns, Black Holes, and Monsters

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 16, 2015
Rumpus illustrator A.D. Puchalski has two new comics available for purchase! The first, Sword of Fray, is a fun action-adventure romp about a unicorn who’s the embodiment of a black hole, an…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 3, 2015
A bookstore-themed hostel will open in Tokyo this month allowing guests to sleep inside bookshelves. Kate Gavino launched her illustrated bookstore tribute Last Night’s Reading and she offers up some…
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A Pink Lung Halloween

  • Liz Wood
  • November 2, 2015
Pink Mountaintops and White Lung have paired up for a collaborative project called Pink Lung, and released a music video with a very Halloween vibe for their song “Chinese Watermelon.”…
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