media lit
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Years ago, I saw a movie. An adaptation, I assumed, inspired by Lovecraft’s The Color from Outer Space — which is my favorite work by him for it’s relative lack of racism. Just a rock that changes everything around it, the living things in its vicinity taking its influence into themselves as an indescribable color…
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This is a review of Longlegs. !!!Major spoilers for the entire movie ahead, reader beware!!! There’s been an uptick in the amount of media featuring satanic concepts lately, some well-done and others lacking in nuance in a way that might have been fine in the 80’s, but grates nowadays. Longlegs is, unfortunately, in the “lacking…
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This Delicious Death is a young adult horror novel by Kayla Cottingham following four girls struggling with their ghoulish urges to eat people. Each of these girls is also queer. What follows will have spoilers — read at your own risk. The central conceit of this book revolves around an event we only ever see…
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Full disclosure, I’m not even that far in the book yet. I couldn’t spoil it for you, even if I wanted to. There’s this sequence at the beginning — not the very beginning, maybe 50 pages in — that describes the most common ways for werewolves to die in the modern world. Jones takes the…
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I finished Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus a couple days ago. It’s a book I was looking forward to, given how prominent rabies is in our culture and how intensely its intertwined in horror fiction and folklore — ranging from parallels with vampire and werewolf lore to influencing the behavior…
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Working through the editing process brings some of the more esoteric practices of creation into focus. One of those is critique. The editing process is a self-critique of your own work, a preparation for showing it to the wider world in an attempt to share your own vision. Presenting your work to the world is…
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It only takes a cursory glance at my blog to know that I have a special affinity for dogs. Their joint history with humans, the dichotomy of fear and love that can make a dog a protector or violent monster, the wolf just beneath the surface. They are both the family dog chasing a would-be…
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It should come as a surprise to no one that I love Godzilla, and though my knowledge of the franchise is slimmer than that of your average superfan I still ran to the theaters as soon as I realized that a new Japanese rendition of Godzilla was out. I was late to the punch —…
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Videodrome is a 1983 science fiction/body horror film directed by David Cronenberg at his most fucked. I love it for all the reasons I love Cronenberg’s other work: the viscera, the artistry of corn syrup and slime, the sexual innuendo of horror, and the vigorous application of latex. It’s a favorite Halloween haunt, but so…
from the pen of icarus blake 