Season One of HBO’s True Detective was a huge hit and an incredible pop culture moment. Feeding off the remarkable (and completely unpredicted) phenomenon of career revival known as the “McConaissance,” the series took several improbable ingredients—including lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the direction of Cary Fukunaga, and the trippy, overwrought dialogue of […]
We all know October is the season for chill weather and pumpkin spice everything, but it’s also the perfect time of year to indulge in my favorite treats: collections of horrific short stories. While I love hair-raisers all all sorts, none quite creep me out like great examples of gothic horror: the genre of vivid monsters, […]
Halloween is upon us again, and that means three things: one, we all get to dress up in costumes and pretend to be something else for a little while; two, all the candy we can eat before going into some sort of sugar-shock coma; and three, scary stories. Scary is a moving target, of course. […]