Friend of the Gutter and swell author Chlöe Yates reads, “The House of Jack’s Girls” on Pseudpod, “the world’s premier horror fiction podcast!” And a friendly warning: “Pseudopod is for mature audiences only. Hardly any story on Pseudopod is suitable for children. We mean this very seriously.”
Lithub has a list of great horror books to read this October–all by women! “[If] you’re not sure where to start this season, here are a few recommendations of great writers of horror (the genre admittedly here broadly defined) to get you started. Of course, this is by […]
At Syfy, friend of the Gutter Sara Century writes about Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense (1913) and its impact on horror ever since. Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense might only clock in at barely over ten minutes, but for the earliest run of home invasion films, […]
At Tor.com, Emily Asher-Perrin writes about the women who are disbelieved in horror. “Why didn’t you believe her? She told you she heard something, or saw it out of the corner of her eye. She told you she was scared, that she didn’t want to go into that […]
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century looks at queen women in horror. “While modern horror films are more likely to feature queer women—and not just lesbian vampires—than early films in the genre, they still often frame queerness as taboo. Even these days onscreen, lesbians have something different about […]
The Guardian profiles filmmaker Agnès Varda. Nowadays, Varda is spending less time researching new ways of making cinema. Not because she hasn’t got the energy but because she believes she can do more groundbreaking work with art installations. In the end, she says, all art is about communication. […]
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