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Telling a Superhero Story the DC Way
Choosing myth over Marvel in James Gunn's Superman (2025)
Jul 16
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Alec Worley
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Telling a Superhero Story the DC Way
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June 2025
Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
Checking into Daisy Johnson's The Hotel (2024)
Jun 26
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Alec Worley
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Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
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May 2025
28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
Predicting a bloody future without stating the bloody obvious. How Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reinvented the reanimated
May 19
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Alec Worley
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28 Days Later (2002) vs. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
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April 2025
How to Build a Haunted House
Constructing chills and building liminal beauty in House (2007), a wordless graphic novel by Josh Simmons
Apr 24
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Alec Worley
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March 2025
Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
John W. Campbell's classic novella of Golden Age science fiction and John Carpenter's modern horror masterpiece - both absorb new meanings in the age of…
Mar 26
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Alec Worley
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Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
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February 2025
Vampires Don't Have to Be Horrible
How Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos (1992) subverted the bloodsucking genre
Feb 20
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Alec Worley
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Vampires Don't Have to Be Horrible
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January 2025
Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them
Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing
Jan 28
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Alec Worley
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them
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December 2024
Make Camelot Weird Again
How David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021) brings strange new meaning to an antique fantasy text. And, yes, it’s a Christmas movie. Fight me.
Dec 13, 2024
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Alec Worley
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Make Camelot Weird Again
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November 2024
The Furry Folk Horror of Watership Down (1978)
How the animated adaptation of Richard Adams’s novel terrified a generation and builds a non-human epic fantasy that casts a dark and enthralling spell
Nov 11, 2024
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Alec Worley
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The Furry Folk Horror of Watership Down (1978)
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October 2024
What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
Defending a sword and sorcery kinda-classic
Oct 25, 2024
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Alec Worley
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September 2024
The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma
How the 1989 comic book by James O’Barr expressed real-life tragedy through gothic fantasy and what happened when it met the Hollywood machine
Sep 18, 2024
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Alec Worley
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The Crow: When Fantasy Manages Trauma
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August 2024
Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
How Andrew Michael Hurley’s compulsive folk horror novel casts its bleak and atmospheric spell
Aug 20, 2024
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Alec Worley
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Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
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