There's so much variety in the way vampires stories play with classic "rules" of vampirism and how those rules are deployed–for serious, or campy, or comedic effect. How do your favorite vampires tweak the formula?
In the newest Ships in the Night, Jenny Hamilton centers cosmic configurations of intimacy and shared experience within two time travel romances: Jackie Lau's Time Loops & Meet Cutes and Annie Mare's Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon!
Our modern concept of Halloween takes inspiration from the ancient festival of Samhain, so what better way to celebrate the season than with chilling books and stories inspired by Celtic folktales?
Aliens, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes... all are capable of generating a giant body of water where dry land used to be. James Davis Nicoll offers 5 classic works about unexpected inland seas and the like...
Emily C. Hughes kicks off a new column at Reactor! She's bringing you the Horror Highlights from each month, spotlighting the best new horror books and wrapping up other spine-tingling news from around the genre 🔪🎃
Look, not everybody wants to be terrified out of their mind every Halloween. Some of us would rather watch a calm, cool, collected documentary about the people that do. Leah Schnelbach recommends 10 horror documentaries (which you can also find on Letterboxd here)
There is a time for bold, heroic characters. But in Bong Joon Ho's movies, there is equally a time for losers. Elaine U. Cho on underdogs in Okja, Snowpiercer, and The Host, and how they lend us inspiration anyways.
It: Welcome to Derry's first episode included a mutant demon baby, some Stephen King-typical bad parenting, and a pretty shocking plot twist. Lets talk about it!
