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Stand-Alone Essays

Stand-Alone Essays

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Time Is an Illusion, and Blog Time Doubly So: Ten Years of Reading the Weird

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All Sorrows Aside: E. Catherine Tobler’s “To Drive the Cold Winter Away”

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Disaster Response, Hard Mode: The Mist

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Never Respond to Rejection Letters: Aimee Picchi’s “The Only Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need to Survive Eldritch Horrors”

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The Viral Post From Beyond: Manish Melwani’s “Mammoth”

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The Award for Worst Person Ever: E. F. Benson’s “The Outcast”

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There Were Two Beds! — M.R. James’ “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”

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Reticence and Revenge: Sarah Monette’s “The Haunting of Dr. Claudius Winterson”

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Love in the Time of Fungi: Nika Murphy’s “The Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl”

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Death Takes a Busman’s Holiday: Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Gray Man”

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I’ve Been Around the Block: Greg van Eekhout’s “Across the Street”

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The Worms Crawl Out: Megan Chee’s “The Worms That Ate the Universe”

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Hep Cats and Academics: Caitlin Kiernan’s “Four Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille”

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We’re All Mermaids in the End: Seanan McGuire’s “Sister, Dearest Sister, Let Me Show You to the Sea”

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Weird and Unusual Security System Issues: Nnedi Okorafor’s “Dark Home”

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Forensic Folklore: Sarah Pinsker’s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”

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Poetry Month 2024: Marisca Pichette’s Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair

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Poetry Month 2024: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

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To Catch a Monster: Rebecca Roanhorse’s “Eye and Tooth”

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The Shortest Swamp Thing Saga: Sara Omer’s “Marshman”

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