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Loyalty on Trial

This issue centers on the word loyalty—a concept that unfolds into questions of choice, demand, duty, and betrayal. Gothic loyalty may be tender or terrifying, inherited or invented, sacred or broken. In [...]

The King’s Greatest Soldier

    They did not knock when they arrived. They did not tell when we asked. They did not spare when we begged. Like lightning in a bottle, it disappeared almost instantaneously. [...]

Winter Again

You ever had to bury a friend? Like, actually, bury them? The corpse, the dirt, and a shovel if you’re lucky. The dirt stuck underneath your nails right after, and this terrible, [...]

The Province of Pain

Tenzin took a deep but ragged breath and, with it, his first step up the narrow, dark stairs of the tenement building. Step. It had all begun in the spring of 1919, [...]

Beautiful Creature: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

This review contains spoilers The gothic event of the season, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein bears the unmistakable imprint of a filmmaker with a spectacular imagination. A film of lavish beauty, with the [...]

The Thorn Prince

The crown fit my head as an organic extension of myself, forged to the exact curve of my skull, yet I could hear the sharp voice of my mother repeating enough times [...]

When Faith Fails: FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

Autumn evenings feel incomplete without a cup of warm tea, a comforting blanket, and a dose of horror. This distinct autumnal mood gets better when it is raining–the darkness beyond the window, [...]

The Artists Cemetery

There is a place in my village, by the sea, where dreams of artistry go to die. A heavy gate and statues of crying angels hold up a sign that reads: “THE [...]

A Letter from an Old Friend

Herbert Hallaway was a man whose every day of the last decade began exactly at dawn. As soon as the sun rose above the horizon, letting the first rays into his room, [...]