Tag: Theme: Horrors & Thrillers
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Goths For Breakfast 2026: Charity Teach-a-Thon to feed hungry kids!
Event: Romancing the Gothic, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Clothing & Tailoring, Theme: Conventions & Literary Events, Theme: Film & Cinema, Theme: Gothic Horror, Theme: Gothic Romance, Theme: Guillermo del Toro, Theme: Horrors & Thrillers, Theme: Television & Entertainment, Theme: Uniforms & Costumes
It’s that wonderful time of year again – Romancing the Gothic, run by the inimitable Doctor Sam Hirst, is raising money for Magic Breakfast, a UK-based charity that provides free breakfasts for hungry school kids across England and Scotland. I am privileged to be a part of the incredible line-up for tomorrow, where you can…
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Some Favourite Jewish Movie Recs
I’ve been having a great deal of fun watching The Pitt recently, it’s been wonderful watching a show that’s so joyful and complex not just in its Jewish characters and storylines, but also in its complex approach to ethics and philosophy within a medical workplace. I definitely understand what they mean about intending it as…
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New Deals & New Media Recs
Hello, blog post time! Book Releases & Deals The Kickstarter is now LIVE for the A Coup of Owls 2025-2026 releases! The collections on the docket are a Horror/Romance quartet of novelettes called Dark Paths coming out later this month, a Fantasy/Romance duo of novelettes called Light Paths scheduled for this December, and then a…
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TeratoCon 2025 Write-up
Had a spectacular time talking monsters at the very first special convention! Yesterday, I had the delightful privilege of attending the very first TeratoCon at the Future Inn in Bristol, an 18+ convention for monster lovers with a special focus on all things monstrous, especially on monsterfucking and monstrous romance! I had an initially bumpy…
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Alien: Romulus: An Abortive Attempt at Homage to a Classic
Romulus started out promising, then proved itself an awful disappointment. The original Alien (1979) is far and away one of my favourite sci-fi films, one I’ve written about in the past, and I have a lot of affection for Aliens (1986) and even Alien 3 (1992), for all I feel it has its narrative flaws.…
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The Devouring Gaze in The First Omen
The horror of surveillance and surveilling in Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen (2024). Cap via ScreenAnarchy. I was saying the other night after we came out of the cinema that for the past few years, it really feels like I can trust horror films more than virtually any other film — horror films generally have a specific, presumed…
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Crimson Peak: A Love Letter To Gothic Romance
Adoring thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro’s 2015 masterpiece. This review and bit of analysis is related to the talk I’ll be giving on Crimson Peak tomorrow, responses to misogyny and marginalisation in and around Gothic fiction, and how much of this social conservatism is mirrored in BookTok and modern retorts to problematic fiction. All proceeds…
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Raped and Ruined: Themes of Sexual Assault and Reproductive Coercion in Alien (1979)
Theme: Capitalism, Theme: Debt & Money Troubles, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Horrors & Thrillers, Theme: Misogyny & Sexism, Theme: Monsters & Monsterfucking, Theme: Patriarchy & White Supremacy, Theme: Pregnancy & Reproduction, Theme: Science Fiction Movies & Books, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Sexual Health & MidwiferyExploring the underlying anxieties around sexual assault, loss of bodily autonomy, and forced impregnation in Alien (1979). From Merriam-Webster: Rape: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person’s will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of…