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The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature

The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature

Natalie Lawrence Explores Our Enduring Obsession With Monsters, Internal and External

By Natalie Lawrence | April 2, 2025

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For

By Surekha Davies | February 6, 2025

Exhuming Dracula’s Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears

Exhuming Dracula’s Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears

Ed Simon Explores the History and Tradition of Unearthing the Long-Buried Past in Eastern Europe

By Ed Simon | October 31, 2024

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

Odie Henderson on the Making of “Blacula” and the Broader History of Blaxploitation Cinema

By Odie Henderson | January 25, 2024

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

By Jessica Elefante | October 25, 2023

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

Finding Freedom in, and From, Motherhood

By Claire Dederer | April 25, 2023

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Are We Running Out of Monster Metaphors for the Disasters of the Real World?

By Erika Swyler | September 1, 2020

There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

By Arra Lynn Ross | July 20, 2020

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

By Jaquira Díaz | November 20, 2019

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

A Halloween Episode with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 31, 2019

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About<br> Being Human

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk

By Cristina Bacchilega | October 25, 2019

Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

Mariana Enriquez on the Dark Side of Writing as an Argentinian

By Mariana Enriquez | October 31, 2018

This Thing of Darkness: An Interview With Rachel Ingalls

This Thing of Darkness: An Interview With Rachel Ingalls

The Mrs. Caliban author on Hollywood horror, betrayal,
and so-called monsters

By Dan Sheehan | March 8, 2018

Sofia Samatar on Kafka, Binge-Writing and the Search For Monsters

Sofia Samatar on Kafka, Binge-Writing and the Search For Monsters

The Author of Monster Portraits in Conversation with Amina Cain

By Literary Hub | February 16, 2018

Inside <em>The World of Lore</em>: A Spooky Podcast Jumps to Page and Screen

Inside The World of Lore: A Spooky Podcast Jumps to Page and Screen

Christina Newland Talks to the Man Behind the Monstrous Creatures

By Christina Newland | October 31, 2017

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

Because Sometimes the Wolf Shows Up Uninvited

By Amber Sparks | August 11, 2017