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Tyler Malone

Tyler Malone
Tyler Malone is a writer based in Southern California. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Scofield as well as a Contributing Editor at Literary Hub. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere.


Why Horror Needs Humor

Tyler Malone Wonders If Laughter is the Best Medicine or the Worst Disease
October 31, 2024  By Tyler Malone
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Camp Masterpiece: Notes on Megalopolis

For Tyler Malone, Every Generation Gets the “Showgirls” It Deserves
October 25, 2024  By Tyler Malone
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Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Tyler Malone on the Canker in the Classroom
October 31, 2023  By Tyler Malone
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Must Sex Always Mean Death When it Comes to Horror Movies?

Tyler Malone on Carnal (Lack of) Knowledge in Scary Cinema
October 31, 2022  By Tyler Malone
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Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

Tyler Malone on Psycho, Michael Myers, and Psychologism in Cinematic Horror
October 29, 2021  By Tyler Malone
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Wonder or Horror? On the Dark Side of Our Reverence for Nature

Tyler Malone Explores the Cinematic Worlds of Eco-Horror
October 30, 2020  By Tyler Malone
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The Terror Behind the Mask

Tyler Malone on That Which Lies Forever Hidden
October 31, 2019  By Tyler Malone
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On John Wayne, Cancel Culture, and the Art of Problematic Artists

Wrestling with the Legacy of an American Icon
June 21, 2019  By Tyler Malone
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Deadwood, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off

Tyler Malone on How a Series Should End
June 4, 2019  By Tyler Malone
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What Does Ulysses Tell Us About
Pete Buttigieg?

On Judging a Candidate By What They Read
April 15, 2019  By Tyler Malone
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John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

“I write about real people in real places. End of story.”
January 17, 2019  By Tyler Malone
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Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds

One of the Great American Storytellers
November 14, 2018  By Tyler Malone
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The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism’s Wake

Brains, one might say, “to each according to his need.”
October 31, 2018  By Tyler Malone
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Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

A Brief History of Gore, Splatter, and the Art of Fake Blood
October 31, 2017  By Tyler Malone
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In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes

On the True Meaning of Freedom
December 29, 2016  By Tyler Malone
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The Novelist Who Gave Up on the World

Jung Young Moon Talks About Contrived Worlds and Just Not Caring
November 2, 2016  By Tyler Malone
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Every House is a Haunted House

Why is So Much of Horror About the Home?
October 31, 2016  By Tyler Malone
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The Man in the Macintosh: One of Literature’s Great Mysteries

Investigating One of Ulysses' Shady Characters
June 16, 2016  By Tyler Malone
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Paging Dr. Freud: Prince Cracked Something Open in Me

Being a Lifelong Prince "Fam" Helped Me Come To Terms With Myself
April 22, 2016  By Tyler Malone
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There Is Never Any Ending to Paris

City of Light, City of Art
November 16, 2015  By Tyler Malone
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