Caroline Hagood’s ‘Filthy Creation’ Makes the Monster Within a Work of Fiction
The inner Frankenstein that informed Caroline Hagood’s non-fiction Weird Girls lurches through her new work of fiction, Filthy Creation.
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When a Body Meets a Body: Frankenstein’s Daughter Acts Out Her 1950s Issues
Frankenstein’s daughter, in modern parlance, is some kind of proto-“trans” creation of a woman’s mind within a patched-together male body. This is heady stuff.
‘Wasteland’, or, How We Went From World War I to White Walkers
In Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, historian W. Scott Poole exhumes our obsession with the living dead.
‘In the Shadow of Frankenstein’ Will Haunt Your Dreams
In the Shadow of Frankenstein provides a first-rate example of how the creature's heart continues to pump life into the horror genre.
Roger Luckhurst’s ‘Zombies’ Is Gory and Highly Informative
Zombies is just as much an anti-imperialist work as it is an historical examination of the walking dead.
‘Monster Mash’ Is a Veritable Catalogue of the Damned
Nearly every consumer good sold in America from 1957-1972 had some kind of monster on it at some point.
Finding Hope in the Horror: An Interview with Director Bernard Rose of ‘sx_tape’
Fresh off of last year's divisive sx_tape and with the classic Candyman to his credit, director Bernard Rose talks horror's past and present, as well as his own forthcoming take on Frankenstein.
From Sci-Fi to Fantasy, ‘Frankenstein’ Highlights a Century of Classic to Cult Adaptations
Frankenstein: The Real Story separates Frankenfacts from fiction while exploring the 19th century influences on Mary Shelley’s writing.
The Month In Pop Entertainment: January 2014
Ring in the New Year with new music, TV series, and a surprising amount of horror movies.