What’s So Bad About Being a Monster?
What I liked about monsters was never that they taught me to love my body. If anything, that would have reproduced the same representational problem in a slightly more gothic…
Imaginary Worlds: Widow’s Bay Builds a History with Horror
I’m a little obsessed with Widow's Bay. It’s a horror-comedy series on Apple TV set on a fictional island off the coast of Massachusetts. The island isn’t as famous as…
Planet Money: Economics in the Alien Franchise Isn’t Science Fiction
Even if you’ve never seen an Alien film, you probably know about the monster in the franchise. The Xenomorph has an elongated head, a second set of jaws that protrude…
Widow’s Bay
Widow's Bay is an American comedy horror television series created by Katie Dippold for Apple TV. The series premiered on April 29, 2026, to critical acclaim, with critics praising its…
The Illuminarium
The Illuminarium never should have been built. We know that now. At the time of its conception, the Illuminarium’s makers were stupid and choked with hope. They were sad (the…
Dracula’s Paprika Hendl from Bram Stoker’s 1897 Novel
Tasting History with Max Miller
The Empath
The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at…