horror
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Making Carrie Comfortable
Carrie is most definitely of the horror genre, and horror is never about being comfortable. Society has changed, but what’s at the core of King’s novel remains as raw and powerful as it was four decades ago: Peer pressure, cliques,…
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Under The Skin
Part misandry-based revenge fantasy, part science fiction mash-up, Under the Skin weasels its way into your reptilian brain from its first baffling frames.
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Been Here Before
After years of anxious separation, people are finally relaxing about the literary/genre fiction divide. Over at Electric Literature, Tobias Carroll asks: now what? We’re now well into a period where literary writers are able to balance their love for horror…
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Dark Life Begets Dark Tales
The Airship Daily examines the life of Horacio Quiroga. In his work, Quiroga shows a morbid obsession with death and violence (see: “The Decapitated Chicken”), and a large part of this undoubtedly stems from his own life. The opening salvo…
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Scary Stories for a New Generation
We haven’t stopped creating fairy tales and folklore—we just do it online now. For Aeon magazine, Will Wiles has a splendid longread about “creepypasta,” the phenomenon of writing and disseminating scary stories on the Internet. Their subject matter—horrific lost episodes…
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The Rumpus Interview with Nick Antosca
Nick Antosca, author of the recent collection The Girlfriend Game, talks about balancing fiction and writing for TV, hypnotism, horror films, and packing a lot of crazy shit into his stories.
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Margaret Atwood’s Brilliant Book Riot Guest Post
Did you see that guest-poster over at Book Riot? She’s some young upstart named Margaret Atwood with some crazy ideas about horror, terror, genre fiction, and literary fiction. To add to that, the complete Edgar Allan Poe was in the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adrian Van Young
Adrian Van Young, whose fiction wades in traditions formed by writers like Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, and Edgar Allan Poe, explores horror, terror, and the supernatural in new and unexpected ways.
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Why Zombies?
Today’s zombies are not what they once were—being one of the walking dead comes with a whole slew of creepier characteristics. Thus being one of the most popular creepy fiction phenomena around, zombies have been somewhat reinvented throughout the years.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“How to write sci-fi erotica: Imagine what Mary Shelley would write after fucking Pris from Blade Runner.” At PANK, Kirsty Logan wants to tell you how to write genre. What are the scariest books you know of? “One hit literary wonders”…
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Happy to Be Called Horror
“JC: Though the book also has elements of horror, like Stephen King, it reads very differently than a Stephen King novel. Do you consider it in the horror genre? “VLV: It’s my great hope that this book will be considered…
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In Defense Of Horror
“How certain are you, anyhow, that what you call ‘unpleasantness’ is not a necessary, even crucial, part of our experience? Maybe you should lock yourself up in your heart long enough to work out your actual relationship to matters like…