Reclaiming What Has Been Taken: A Review of Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth Leticia Urieta Under Review:Such Sharp Teeth. Rachel Harrison. Berkley, October 2022. Stories of werewolves have long played with the notion of the wild beast inside all of us, howling to get out. In classic films like The Wolfman and An American Werewolf … Continue reading Reclaiming What Has Been Taken: A Review of Rachel Harrison’s Such Sharp Teeth
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The whole land shall be a desolation, yet will I not make a full end: Kay Chronister’s liminal Desert Creatures
The whole land shall be a desolation, yet will I not make a full end: Kay Chronister’s liminal Desert Creatures Zachary Gillan Under Review:Desert Creatues. Kay Chronister. Erewhon Books, November 2022. The word “liminal” is having a moment on the internet. As with so many things having a moment on the internet, though, it’s being … Continue reading The whole land shall be a desolation, yet will I not make a full end: Kay Chronister’s liminal Desert Creatures
Sharp Edges of an Echo: A Review of Dashiel Carrera’s The Deer
Sharp Edges of an Echo: A Review of Dashiel Carrera's The Deer Justin A Burnett. Under Review:The Deer. Dashiel Carrrera. Dalkey Archive Press, September 2022. A debut novel takes a risk when its demands are uncompromising. When a debut novel makes it onto Dalkey Archive’s publishing roster, its demands must nevertheless be worth taking seriously. … Continue reading Sharp Edges of an Echo: A Review of Dashiel Carrera’s The Deer
Do Lyctors Dream of Undead Dykes? Review of Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Do Lyctors Dream of Undead Dykes? Review of Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Sam Botz Under Review:Nona the Ninth. Tamsyn Muir. Tordotcom Publishing, September 13, 2022. As countless reviewers before me have observed, it is devilishly difficult to describe Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series to the uninitiated. Yes, they feature lesbian necromancers in space, … Continue reading Do Lyctors Dream of Undead Dykes? Review of Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
This is Not My Beautiful Wife: Review of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
This is Not My Beautiful Wife: Review of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Sam Botz Under Review:Our Wives Under the Sea. Julia Armfield. Flatiron Books, July 12, 2022. “Every horror movie ends the way you know it will.” And what is love, Julia Armfield’s debut novel asks, if not a kind of … Continue reading This is Not My Beautiful Wife: Review of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
United in Pain and Fear: Review of We Are Happy, We Are Doomed by Kurt Fawver
United in Pain and Fear: Review of We Are Happy, We Are Doomed by Kurt Fawver Zachary Gillan Under Review:We Are Happy, We Are Doomed. Kurt Fawver. Grimscribe Press, December 2021. If, as Darko Suvin would have it, science fiction is rigidly defined by currently-understood science, we might think of weird fiction as the anti-science-fiction, … Continue reading United in Pain and Fear: Review of We Are Happy, We Are Doomed by Kurt Fawver
Pre-Dead Bodies: A Review of EV Knight’s Three Days in the Pink Tower
Pre-Dead Bodies: A Review of EV Knight’s Three Days in the Pink Tower Diana Hurlburt Under Review:Three Days in the Pink Tower. EV Knight. Creature Publishing, July 12 2022. Content warning: this title and this review contain explicit reference to sexual assault. Considering EV Knight’s Three Days in the Pink Tower within Roe v. Wade’s … Continue reading Pre-Dead Bodies: A Review of EV Knight’s Three Days in the Pink Tower
Queerness and the Southern Gothic: Lee Mandelo’s Summer Sons
Queerness and the Southern Gothic: Review of Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Ellie Campbell Under Review: Summer Sons. By Lee Mandelo. Tordotcom, September 28, 2021 Since the early days of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, Gothic works (and, later, horror literature) have linked queerness and monstrosity. The Southern Gothic … Continue reading Queerness and the Southern Gothic: Lee Mandelo’s Summer Sons
The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Review of Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Review of Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Sam Botz Under Review: Tell Me I'm Worthless. By Alison Rumfitt. Cipher Press, October 28, 2021. In early September, The Guardian published an interview with the philosopher Judith Butler under the headline, “We need to rethink the category … Continue reading The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Review of Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
A Spectre Haunting Stephen King’s America: Review of Stephen King and American Politics by Michael J. Blouin
A Spectre Haunting Stephen King’s America: Review of Stephen King and American Politics by Michael J. Blouin Shawn Gilmore Under Review: Stephen King and American Politics. By Michael J. Blouin. University of Wales Press, 2021. Stephen King—prolific author of popular fiction and household name for nearly fifty years—is a daunting writer to contend with. King’s … Continue reading A Spectre Haunting Stephen King’s America: Review of Stephen King and American Politics by Michael J. Blouin
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