Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Lessons from Hannibal Lecter: How to Write a Human Monster

Can horror be scary without the supernatural?

Sep 29 • 

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August 2025

The Best Scene in 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981) Isn't the One You Think

How to write a comedy of terrors

Aug 28 • 

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July 2025

Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)

Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction

Jul 31 • 

Alec Worley

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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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June 2025

Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror

Checking into Daisy Johnson's The Hotel (2024)

Jun 26 • 

Alec Worley

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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 • 

Alec Worley

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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 • 

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 • 

Alec Worley

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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 • 

Alec Worley

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January 2025

Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them

Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing

Jan 28 • 

Alec Worley

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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 • 

Alec Worley

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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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