Halloween
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Are You Sure They Are All Horrid?
Over at Lit Hub, Bridget Reid praises the proto-feminist Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and company, in all of their glory as horrid, formulaic, and dreadfully misunderstood creatures, with a special laundry list of gothic tropes as they can be…
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She Had Many Selves
The next year, my grandmother dressed as an inflatable sheriff. She was a devout Catholic who’d worked at Planned Parenthood. She had many selves. At Catapult, Tim Manley writes and illustrates a history of his grandmother’s Halloween costumes.
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Evil Working for Good
How a culture of goblins and ghouls led to the revival of a small Midwestern town.
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Haunting Girls
At Broadly, Stassa Edwards writes about poltergeists, vulnerability, and the bodies of young girls.
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The Soundtrack That Made Twin Peaks
“If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.”
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Diana Whitney reviews Cynthia Cruz’s poetry collection, Wunderkammer, meaning “cabinet of curiosities.” This is a book of “delicious… detail.” Cruz’s poems, Whitney declares, “have a wry sense of humor that tempers the traumas they reveal.” The poet, who was…
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Albums of Our Lives: Three Songs from the Pixies’s Surfer Rosa
Halloween afternoon, my senior year of high school. At the end of the school day, shadows already stretch from the huge white pines near Newton Square.
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This Week in Short Fiction
It’s that time of year where we’re all craving a good scary story, be it told by candle light, on a screen, or in a book. Neil Gaiman’s middle-reader graphic novel Hansel and Gretel came out on Tuesday of this…
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Paper Trumpets #10: Mummy Cream
Happy Halloween season! I’ve been collaging with scary monster images lately.
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Readers Report: Magic
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Magic.”
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On Not “Getting Over It”
I am well aware, for example, that voter suppression is a serious problem. If we’re going to consider degrees of magnitude, which is a masturbatory exercise at best, voter suppression is the more serious problem. Or is it? For Salon, our…
