[GUEST POST] Steve Rasnic Tem on Southern Gothic and the Appalachian Weird
In Steve Rasnic Tem‘s 30 + years as a professional writer he has published over 300 short stories, three collections, and four novels, as well as hundreds of poems, [...]
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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis to Teach The Gothic Tradition at Mythgard Institute
Registration is now open at Mythgard Institute for the SF-centric online class The Gothic Tradition, taught Dr. Amy H. Sturgis. Here’s the course description: The [...]
INTERVIEW: Freda Warrington, Author of A TASTE OF BLOOD WINE, on Vampires and Gothic Romance
Freda Warrington is a British author, known for her epic fantasy, vampire and supernatural novels. Her earliest novels, the Blackbird series, were written and published when [...]
MOVIE REVIEW: Shutter Island, Directed by Martin Scorcese (2010)
At first glance, Shutter Island would seem an odd movie to review for a science fiction site. It opens as a noir thriller, with homage to such movies as Out of the Past, In a Lonely Place and The Big Combo, and is set in 1954, at a time when the House Un-American Activities Committee whipped up anti-Communist paranoia. However, little screen time elapses before one realizes that the noir elements in fact share space with three other genres: Gothic, haunted house story and existential horror movie, with twists and reversals reaching frantic levels as it spin towards its climax.
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