Introducing a new column at Reactor: The Hidden Gems Book Club! We're excited to have guest authors join us to speak about an underrated book they love. This week, Isaac Fellman, author of Dead Collections and Notes From A Regicide, talks The Merry Spinster!
Well, no one can say they predicted that finale! Emmet Asher-Perrin breaks it down alongside some speculation as to the future of the series. We want to hear what you think!
From Hill House to the subway tunnels of NYC, some settings and stories tap directly into our primal fear of darkness (and what might be lurking out there). What are your favorite examples?
Congratulations! You've claimed victory after an epic struggle, but...now what? James Davis Nicoll highlights five stories about what happens after a big, climactic adventure comes to a close...
After eight years, The Handmaid's Tale has come to an end. Natalie Zutter reviews the series finale, reflects on how we got there, and looks ahead to where sequel series The Testaments will pick up.
Bring Her Back uses its outstanding performances to explore a mother's grief, but its tone lands closer to cruel than just dark. Leah Schnelbach reviews the latest film from the creators of Talk To Me.
Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was hailed as an instant classic back in 2004–is it still as weird and gorgeous and heartbreaking as you remember? Time to take a trip down memory lane...
The story of a small town plagued by vampires by horror's most famous author should be an easy win for Hollywood. But Salem's Lot has struggled to make it to the big screen...and when it does, it falls flat. In this new featured essay, Don Kaye examines why.
An empathy-generating fungus is the hip new lifestyle accessory that defeats vigilantes and finds you the job of your dreams...
Set in the near future, "Slippernet" is a sequel to both Everfair and Kinning, but can be read on its own. You can read all of Nisi Shawl's short stories for Reactor here!