Edgar and I are traveling, and so we’ve prepared these posts in advance. Right now, I want to share with you something that isn’t quite a genre but which are unified by a particular set of qualities. Maybe that’s what a genre really is. I don’t have a good name for them, so I’m going to describe this as “unbureaucratic” fiction.
Read MoreI read quite a few books the past few months, and they were almost all quite good. That being said, it’s almost time for finals, so pardon me for being brusque or brief. Title links go to Bookshop.org.
Read MoreThat’s because the genre of internet horror isn’t about the horror in a vacuum – it’s about the confusion of boundaries, the uncanny invasion of horror into a completely different kind of story. In our terminology, it might be better to call it an unheimlich invasion than an uncanny one, though. It’s not a lying thing but a lying context.
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