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.
‘Frankenstein’: An Indictment of Divine Indifference
By examining the perils of creation, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a parable of the inscrutable nature of man’s relationship with God.
‘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.