“10 Wonderfully Witchy YA Comics to Read This Fall”
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century recommends ten wonderfully witchy YA comics for your reading pleasure!
“Sexual Awakening, but Make It Evil”
“Plenty of “dangerously sexy” femme fatales exist in graphic novels, like Poison Ivy, Catwoman, and Amora the Enchantress. While thankfully these characters have been more fleshed out as time went on, that doesn’t change that there’s a certain level of villainization for sexy women in media that extends […]
“Black Storytellers Are Using Horror to Battle Hate”
“Black Horror is far from a new phenomenon, as demonstrated by last year’s documentary Horror Noire, based on the book by Robin R. Means Coleman, which unpacked the deeper meaning behind a century of African American history in frightening screen stories—from the silent era to 1968’s Night of […]
“Gaslighting in Sweetheart“
At SyFy Fangrrls, Stephanie Williams writes about Justin Dillard’s Sweetheart (2019). “The horror genre can be a powerful vehicle to tell the struggles of marginalized groups of people. When these stories are created by the very people who know these struggles in their everyday lives, the impact is […]
“Kathe Koja on Godmothers of Horror: Emily Brontë & Mary Shelley”
“I had a chat with Kathe [Koja]…about the unexplored horror elements in Wuthering Heights, the legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the trailblazing work of Shirley Jackson, particularly The Haunting of Hill House. Enjoy this in-depth exploration of the legacies of badass women in horror with someone who should need no introduction in that […]
Zoë Bell’s Boss Bitch Fight Challenge!
Zoë Bell starts a fight with all her friends and you can watch!
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