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Hug Your Land Octopus: “Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson

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Hug Your Land Octopus: “Born of Man and Woman” by Richard Matheson

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Unwanted Spectral Advances: “How Love Came to Professor Guildea” by Robert Hichens

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Parasocial Gothic: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

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A Year Under the Knife: Reflecting on the First Year of Dissecting The Dark Descent

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The Rot Goes Deep: “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

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Intimate, Brutal, Indelible: “Dread” by Clive Barker

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Abnormal Psychology and Entomology: “The Roaches” by Thomas M. Disch

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“Larger Than Oneself” by Robert Aickman: Performative Spirituality, Absurdity, and Irony

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“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” by Harlan Ellison: The Torture Never Stops

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Small, Sinister Details: Shirley Jackson’s “The Summer People”

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H.P. Lovecraft: Breaking an Ancestral Curse

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“Evening Primrose” by John Collier: Cheerful Cruelty, Capitalism, and Cowardice

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