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No Way Out But Death: Augustina Bazterrica’s The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica‘s 2023 horror novel The Unworthy, translated into English by Sarah Moses in 2025, is set at the end of the world. The apocalypse is nigh: the environment is collapsing, society is in ruins, and every living being’s survival demands a brutal daily negotiation. In the wasteland, a man has built a religion, with…
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Looking Away
Vampires are my favorite monsters. In much of Western film and literature, vampires represent a threat to the social order a community relies upon. But they’re not the kind of threat that attacks directly in a loud, confrontational way. No, a vampire is sneaky and conniving, hiding behind charm, social graces, borrowed institutional power, and…
The Mother-Daughter Horror Hidden Inside The Substance
The scariest thing about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance isn’t the body horror — it’s the multi-generational transmission of trauma. This is not simply a story about an aging woman being cruelly replaced by a younger competitor in a cutthroat industry. The Substance is a story about a mother who bought into a lie to extend…
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