Halloween looms, my dreadful darlings, have you considered your seasonal reading? Perhaps in your secret heart, not the one in your chest, but the one you have sealed in a cast glass jar and hidden high on a shelf in a cobwebbed attic or buried beneath the gelid […]
SF/F Editor Keith has wandered into the woods and we’re not sure where or what time he’ll even come out. Except that he’ll definitely be back here next month. In the meantime, enjoy this piece he wrote on American Sci-Fi Folk Horror. I’ve spent the latter half of […]
What if James Bond went to Bombay in the late 1970s and wasn’t so much a secret agent as a stylist and interior designer for a particularly aesthetics-oriented villain? The plot of Shaan has very little to do with any of the Bond films that I can remember. […]
“Jason X is my favorite episode of Andromeda.” – Carol Borden “Honey, this is bad. This is Space Mutiny bad.” – my husband “Guys, he just wanted his machete back!” – actual dialogue from Jason X After enough sequels that you might lose count of which Friday the […]
If there ever were a comic that was a summer time fading into fall read, it’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Archie Comics, 2019). If I had read it before writing, “Summer Fun Time Reading ’19,” it would definitely have ended up on the list. And it was a […]
In parts one of my “Heavy Light” article, I delved into the history of French sci-fi comics magazine Metal Hurlant, which when it was licensed for publication in America, became Heavy Metal. Watching Luc “The Destroyer of French Cinema” Besson’s whimsical fantasy-adventure The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec […]
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The Cultural Gutter 