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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

October 9, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

September 25, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

September 11, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

August 28, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

August 14, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

July 31, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

July 17, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 26, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 12, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

May 29, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

May 15, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

April 24, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

April 10, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

March 27, 2024

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

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

March 13, 2024

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Square House, Door in Front: Kiera Lesley’s “Concerning the Upstairs Bathroom”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

February 28, 2024

8

The Things We Do For Life Lists: Liz Williams’ “The Hide”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

February 7, 2024

Memento Mori: Nadia Bulkin’s “Seven Minutes in Heaven”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

January 24, 2024

The Ants Go Marching: Karen Heuler’s “All Gods Great and Small”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

September 27, 2023

Juniper and Chile Peppers: Karlo Yeager Rodriguez’s “Up in the Hills, She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep in the Ground”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

September 6, 2023

Decadent Party Favors: K.J. Bishop’s “Saving the Gleeful Horse”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

August 23, 2023

One of Those Plans: F. Marion Crawford’s “For the Blood is the Life”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

August 9, 2023

To Life! But in a Bad Way: H.G. Wells’s “The Stolen Body”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

July 26, 2023

Adjuncts of the Corn: Kelly Link’s “Skinder’s Veil”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

July 12, 2023

No Mask: E. Catherine Tobler’s “She Will Be Raised a Queen”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 21, 2023

No Live Organism Can Continue For Long: Arkady Martine’s “Rose/House”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

June 7, 2023

Transformative Disruption: Molly Tanzer’s “Go, Go, Go, Said the Byakee”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

May 24, 2023

Cabbage Patch Kids: C.L. Taylor’s “The Limb Garden”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

May 3, 2023

Easy Weeknight Recipes to Appease Ghosts: Deborah Davitt’s “Feeding the Dead” and Carly Racklin’s “Unearthen”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

April 19, 2023

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My Shoggoth’s Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun: Mythos Poetry by Ann K. Schwader

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

April 5, 2023

1

The Worst Car Trouble: Genevieve Valentine’s “Sooner Or Later Your Wife Will Drive Home”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

March 22, 2023

Night of the Dripping Dead: Angela Slatter’s “The Names of the Drowned Are These”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

March 8, 2023

The Legacy of Old Tropes: Charles R. Saunders’ “Jeroboam Henley’s Debt”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

February 22, 2023

Sex, Death, and Skeletal Psychopomps: Olympe Bhêly-Quénum’s “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

February 8, 2023

10

In the Eye of the Buyer: Adam-Troy Castro’s “Glimpses in Amber”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

January 25, 2023

8

We Want Ghosts — No, Wait, Not Like That: Fitz-James O’Brien’s “What Was It? A Mystery”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

January 11, 2023

Merry Christmas From the Void: Revisiting Lovecraft’s Holiday Poems

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

December 21, 2022

Refined, If Gory, Tastes: Erin Brown’s “A Brief and Hideous Scrawl”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

December 7, 2022

Necromancy for Fun and/or Profit: Vivian Shaw’s “Black Matter”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

November 23, 2022

Never Save Me: Carlie St. George’s “Forward, Victoria”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

November 9, 2022

Trick or… Something: John Langan’s “Kore”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

October 26, 2022

Wise Up, Schlubcraft: Cast a Deadly Spell

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

October 12, 2022

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Penelope, Still Waiting: Sonya Taaffe’s “As the Tide Came Flowing In”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

September 28, 2022

There’s Always a Catch: Tananarive Due’s “The Wishing Pool”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

September 14, 2022

8

Don’t Trust Things in Holes: Gemma Files’ “The Harrow”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

August 31, 2022

If You Prick Us, Do We Not Rust? Tara Campbell’s “Spencer”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

August 17, 2022

I Wish the Goblin King Would Come and Take You Away: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “When I Was a Witch”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

August 3, 2022

Feed Me, Seymour: H.G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

July 20, 2022

Lions Drinking With Jackals: Molly Tanzer’s “Grave-Worms”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

July 6, 2022

The Hazards of Bad Poetry: Kelly Link’s “The Specialist’s Hat”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

June 15, 2022

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Spook-of-the-Month Club: Gordon B. White’s “Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 1, 2022

Giants in the Sky: Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

May 18, 2022

Strangers in Red: Crystal Sidell’s “The Truth About Doppelgangers”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

May 4, 2022

Space Lampreys and Singing Earthworms: Amelia Gorman’s Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

April 20, 2022

Vampires of Madison Avenue: Fritz Leiber’s “The Girl With the Hungry Eyes”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

April 6, 2022

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A Recognizable Monster: Erica Ruppert’s “The Golden Hour”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

March 23, 2022

Just Like Regular People: Yan Ge’s “Sorrowful Beasts”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

March 9, 2022

City Ghosts, Country Ghosts: Seanan McGuire’s “In the Deep Woods; The Light is Different There”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

February 24, 2022

The Price of Research: P. Djèlí Clark’s “Night Doctors”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

February 9, 2022

Swallows and Pocket Watches: Christopher Caldwell’s “The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

January 26, 2022

The Perils of Lockdown: Cassandra Khaw’s “Quiet Dead Things”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

January 12, 2022

The Gothic Mundane: Ellen Glasgow’s “Jordan’s End”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

December 15, 2021

The Perils of Art Criticism: Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas’ “Still Life With Vial of Blood”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

November 17, 2021

Count the Monsters, If You Can: Ray Bradbury’s “The Man Upstairs”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

November 3, 2021

Gossip Man Was Not Meant to Know: Fritz Leiber’s “To Arkham and the Stars”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

October 20, 2021

Room Service for the Squamous: Sarah Peploe’s “UNDR”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

September 29, 2021

You Will Fear the Fuchsia, Yet Again: From Beyond (1986)

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

September 15, 2021

10

You Read Too Much Into Little Things: Grace Chan’s “The Mark”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

September 1, 2021

With the Lobsters Out to Sea: Caitlin R. Kiernan’s “A Redress for Andromeda”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

August 18, 2021

What Women Want: Stephen King’s “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

August 4, 2021

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Meddle Not in the Affairs…: John Langan’s “Breakwater”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

July 21, 2021

Problems at the Lodge: Brian Evenson’s “No Matter Which Way We Turned”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

July 7, 2021

Stepford Pets: Lisa Tuttle’s “Replacements”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

June 23, 2021

The Party at the Beginning of the End of the World: Livia Llewellyn’s “Bright Crown of Glory”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

June 9, 2021

No Drivel About Mysteries: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Horror of the Heights”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

May 26, 2021

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Floral Hazards: Wendy N. Wagner’s “The Black Azalea”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

May 12, 2021

Change Your Clocks, Change the World: Robert Levy’s “DST (Fall Back)”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

April 28, 2021

16

Always Be Closing: Margaret St. Clair’s “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

April 14, 2021

20

Advertising for Burglars: Lord Dunsany’s “How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

March 31, 2021

25

A Terrible Time for Birdwatching: Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

March 17, 2021

More Hungry Houses: Oliver Onions’ “The Beckoning Fair One”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

March 3, 2021

Lonely Hunter: Aimee Ogden’s “His Heart Is the Haunted House”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

February 10, 2021

Monsters Trying to Dance: Gillian Daniels’ “Bobbie and Her Father”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

January 27, 2021

The Hazards of a Cat Shortage: Garry Kilworth’s “Hogfoot Right and Bird Hands”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

January 13, 2021

11

Pinkerton’s Detergent Vs. the Eternal Bloodstain: Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

December 16, 2020

19

An Inexhaustible Research Subject: Elizabeth Bear’s “On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa With Gun and Camera”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

December 2, 2020

13

Sometimes the Sea, Sometimes Bones: Sonya Taaffe’s “Tea With the Earl of Twilight”

By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys

November 18, 2020

“All Houses Have a Place Like This”: Robert Aickman’s “The Stains”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

October 28, 2020

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Something in the Water, Something in the Air: Kaaron Warren’s “The Diesel Pool”

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

October 14, 2020