I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw The TV Glow” warns of the unstoppable, crushing force of time and the danger of the safe decision.
The Gutter’s own Angela Englert will be back next month. For the last day in February–a leap day–ponder and enjoy her “The Love That Dares Speak Its Name” on Emily Harris’ Carmilla (2019)… ~~~ Emily Harris’ 2019 retelling of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Ur-Lesbian Vampire text Carmilla (1872) […]
When I was eight years old, my mother showed me a stuttering laserdisc version of Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) and changed my life. (Good one, Mom.) Formerly a fraidy cat, I fell in love–with Dracula, with horror, with Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó Lugosi. I also fell in love […]
Horror wears many different skins. Sometimes literally, although in this case I mean that while people have come up with a multitude of wildly different concepts for horror stories, what lurks underneath that shifting surface of zombies, serial killers, parasites, and clowns is our deepest fears. Among the […]
December 6th was the 50th anniversary of the folk horror (and Beltane holiday) classic, The Wicker Man’s release. It seems positively disreputable to let the event pass completely unmarked. So this month we are presenting an essay Carol Borden originally wrote on The Wicker Man‘s origins for CG Editor […]
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