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Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Chris Tusa’s second novel, In the City of Falling Stars (Livingston Press, September 2016), tells a tale of paranoia and intrigue. Maurice Delahoussaye witnesses dead birds falling from the sky, and becomes convinced the air is toxic. With equal parts humor and depravity, the novel chronicles a fractured family amidst a […]
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The individuality of body horror is its signature attribute. Nothing is more intimate than one’s own body, and by extension, one’s own physical suffering.
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Victor LaValle discusses his latest book, The Ballad of Black Tom, patience, H.P. Lovecraft, and reinvention.
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“If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.”
...morePaula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
...moreThese days one doesn’t have to look strictly to horror movies to find devils.
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