Gabe and his best friends are tight as brothers. They came up together through school, banded together under a simple macho credo: Anyone who messes with one of them messes with all of them. So, if Tavo gets flack for being gay, his brothers have his back. If Xavier inadvertently winds up on the wrong […]
Read more "All Stories Are Ghost Stories: Gabino Iglesias’ House of Bone and Rain"When young Ophelia “Ophie” Harrison woke in the middle of the night to her father’s warnings about danger coming to her home, she did not realize her mother could not see or hear him. It wasn’t until later, when she learned that he’d been killed earlier in the evening by the very men who then […]
Read more "Negotiating With the Living and the Dead: Justina Ireland’s Ophie’s Ghosts"Molly and Michael’s Mom, their stepdad Dave and his daughter Heather are moving out of Baltimore. The parents are artists—she a painted, he a sculptor—and the idea of living in the country is appealing for many reasons. They found a lovely house complete with nice visual appeal, large grounds, an outbuilding for supplies and workspace, […]
Read more "Not-So-Invisible Fiends: Mary Downing Hahn’s Wait Till Helen Comes"Linda Addison is one of the best kept secrets in speculative poetry, bar none. She has a terrific sense for language, a playfulness that veers into the darkest pockets of human experience and back out again into the realm of surreal whimsy. Who can fashion a punchline that also serves as a revisionist fairy tale […]
Read more "Just Me and the Forever Dead: Linda Addison’s How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend"After surviving an encounter with the queen of black magic (thanks to timely intervention of a Muslim cleric), Katemi (Suzzanna) renounced her black magic ways and decided to live in peace with the village. Unfortunately for her, the teacher of her blasphemous mentor arrives with a demand for Katemi to resume practicing the dark arts. […]
Read more "A Second Helping of Crazy: Santet 2 (1989)"When she meets Viscount Simon Mordenhyrst, Grace Sutcliffe finds herself smitten. When he proposes marriage, she is surprised and pleased. Her own family has earned their money and place through hard work not because they are landed nobility as the Mordenhyrst family is. Instead of having a village to control and a vast number of […]
Read more "Mystery and Supernatural Danger in the Roaring ‘20s: Catherine Cavendish’s Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall"Looking for a place to convalesce and start the next chapter in their lives, the Wallers have been reviewing new home opportunities. A rental community near one of the leading hospitals in the area has plenty of amenities, but it feels to Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) like a hospital itself. Or a prison. His diagnosis […]
Read more "Slippin’ Into Darkness: Night Swim (2024)"Ham radio enthusiast Paul (Greg Rhodes) catches a strange signal one night. A man calling for help just before murderous screams and some creepy carnival music (slooowed down to be even more eerie, naturally) interrupt. He and his girlfriend Martha (Lara Wendel) are soon on the trail of the signal, suspecting they might have overheard […]
Read more "Evil Dead Three … Or Not: Ghosthouse (1988)"Young Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) dreams of a life outside her family’s Connecticut farm. Her mother Abigail (Anne Revere) understands, but she always defers to the patriarch. Sadly, every decision her father, Ephraim (Walter Huston), makes is based on the Bible and for the spiritual betterment and survival of the family. So, when a letter […]
Read more "Marry in Haste, Repent in Leisure: Dragonwyck (1946)"The White Horse is not just an Indian bar for urbans (indigenous folks who live in the city), it’s a piece of Denver’s history. And on the evening when Kari’s cousin Debby gives her a piece of her mother’s jewelry, it’s the doorway to the unknown. The jewelry in question is a bracelet, something Kari’s […]
Read more "Peeking Through the Veil Between Worlds: Erika T. Wurth’s White Horse"
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