Head into the swamps with some fallen families and wild grotesques in Part 2 of our Southern Gothic extravaganza.
Read moreSouthern Gothic: Wrestling With Our Demons -- Part 2, Novels
Zora Neale Hurston, pear blossoms, William Gay, Everglades gator
Childbirth Gothic: BELOVED, ALIEN, and ROE v. WADE
How the abortion debates of the 20th century delivered a new Gothic aesthetic
Read moreSpeculative Slavery: Two PYMs and an Irritating Hologram
Illustration for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, A.D. McCormick (1898).
A look at how slavery haunts the speculative imagination, from Mat Johnson's Pym to Star Trek: Voyager's holographic Doctor.
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