At Beats and Transgressions, friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs celebrated World Tarot Day by “[spotlighting] some of the most well-known artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers who use tarot, have written about tarot, or created tarot decks of their own.” Read more here!
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 […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden is fortunate enough to be (remotely) attending the Overlook Film Festival 2024 and has some thoughts on Larry Fessenden’s new werewolf movie, Blackout: Charlie (Alex Hurt) is trying to escape Talbot Falls but can’t quite get out. A town with that name is […]
This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Cultural Gutter. Author and game developer Jim Munroe founded The Cultural Gutter and posted his first essay here on May 22, 2003. In 2004, Jim invited comic artist and critic Guy Leshinski to join the Gutter. They created a manifesto […]
At The Collector, Susanna Andrews looks at the work of artist Leonora Carrington. “Leonora Carrington was a Surrealist painter and writer who integrated magic and mysticism into her work. She had a rebellious spirit from the beginning, denouncing the Roman Catholicism that was imposed on her as a […]
Read Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” at the Library of America website!
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