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Agents of Dreamland, by Caitlin R. Kiernan

The fourth and final member of Tor’s Reimagining Lovecraft novella collection, Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan, brings the weird and the uncomfortable home to roost. Of the four stories,...

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A Dead Djinn In Cairo, by P. Djèlí Clark

Short, fast, fun. A Dead Djinn In Cairo is a good read, with a marvelous setting. It’s also my first time reading any of P. Djèlí Clark’s work. As a veteran fan of investigative mystery horror,...

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The Labyrinth Index, by Charles Stross

It’s been a hot minute since I last read Stross. At least several years. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I feel like I’ve changed significantly since then. Both as a person and (more narrowly) as a reader. It...

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Stranger Things s4 and breathing room

I enjoyed Stranger Things season 4. But the last episode felt rough for me. Maybe that’s because it was almost two and a half hours, or maybe that’s because it was interrupted more than once. I paused...

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

I’m glad I finally watched Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I’d read some critics saying that this movie lumbered under the weight of its exposition. I’d heard from fan-friends that they...

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A House With Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher

My experience of reading A House With Good Bones was weird, because I made some silly assumptions. It was also fun, and good, and I’d recommend the book. However, this isn’t an in-depth review; I’ll...

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Why do I get bored during dungeon crawls?

Dungeon crawls. Creeping step by step through a dangerous maze, never knowing whether the next monster is lurking in ambush just around the corner. The bubbling pit of anxiety and paranoia simmering...

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Ghosts, a tiny post

This is just a brief one, but… I’ve been reading A Lesson in Vengeance, been part way through it for a while. The combination of that book, plus my own meditations, has left me musing on the nature of...

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Banality and slow-burn horror

What if horror games are actually driven by banality? Is Call of Cthulhu best when it’s mostly full of the everyday? Slow-burn horror is a tricky art. Investigation-based games are difficult to run...

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Castlevania, s1 (Netflix 2017)

I admit, I very nearly bounced off the first couple episodes of season 1. I’m now a few episodes into season 2, and the show has improved. But has it improved enough? I have big hopes, hopes that I...

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