The year is drawing to a close, which means the holidays are right around the corner. Whatever traditions you celebrate, whether they involve a dead tree in your living room or a metal pole and the airing of grievances, if you’re not in the holiday mood yet, you’re running out of time. To help with that process, […]
Disney’s latest animated hit, Frozen, offers eye-popping animation, but the plot will be familiar to anyone who knows their fairytales—it’s based on Hans Christian Anderson’s 1845 story The Snow Queen (though there’s no pop culture–savvy snowman in the original…sorry). Putting a new twist on an enduring legend is, of course, nothing new. Here are eight […]
Around this time of year, television shows, magazines, and half the Internet are inundated with the same old tired tutorials on creating unique Halloween costumes at home. I don’t know about you, but I’m no Martha Stewart, and I don’t have the time or energy to spend hours with a glue gun creating crepe-paper bird masks […]
What better time for speculative fiction than the season of wonder? Many fans of the genre I know make a tradition of re-reading Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or another beloved classic around the holidays. But you don’t have to turn to the old staples to celebrate with your favorite genre: science fiction and […]
J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison is the author of the humorous fantasy adventure Fish Wielder and, more recently, Demon Freaks, a spoof about the horrors of monsters in the woods and the SATs. Today, he joins us to talk about everyone’s favorite holiday villain, the Krampus—and 11 other baddies who make him look friendlier than St. Nick. […]
