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No One Really Drives Away from Anything in Horror Films
Tyler Malone on the Open Road and Auto-Eroticism, from "Lost Highway" to "The Hitcher"
By
Tyler Malone
| October 30, 2026
Corporeal Punishment: On Body Horror, That Most Human of Stories
Tyler Malone Explores the Uncanny Valley Between the Body and the Self
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2025
Why Horror Needs Humor
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By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola’s Camp Masterpiece: Notes on
Megalopolis
For Tyler Malone, Every Generation Gets the “Showgirls” It Deserves
By
Tyler Malone
| October 25, 2024
Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy
Tyler Malone on the Canker in the Classroom
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2023
Must Sex Always Mean Death When it Comes to Horror Movies?
Tyler Malone on Carnal (Lack of) Knowledge in Scary Cinema
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2022
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Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?
By
Tyler Malone
| October 29, 2021
Wonder or Horror? On the Dark Side of Our Reverence for Nature
By
Tyler Malone
| October 30, 2020
The Terror Behind the Mask
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2019
On John Wayne, Cancel Culture, and the Art of Problematic Artists
Wrestling with the Legacy of an American Icon
By
Tyler Malone
| June 21, 2019
Deadwood
, TV’s Most Literary Show, Gets Its Rightful Foul-Mouthed Send-Off
Tyler Malone on How a Series Should End
By
Tyler Malone
| June 4, 2019
What Does
Ulysses
Tell Us About
Pete Buttigieg?
On Judging a Candidate By What They Read
By
Tyler Malone
| April 15, 2019
John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer
“I write about real people in real places. End of story.”
By
Tyler Malone
| January 17, 2019
Stan Lee, the Would-Be Novelist Who Created Worlds
One of the Great American Storytellers
By
Tyler Malone
| November 14, 2018
The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism's Wake
Brains, one might say, “to each according to his need.”
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2018
Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?
A Brief History of Gore, Splatter, and the Art of Fake Blood
By
Tyler Malone
| October 31, 2017
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Crime and the city: Harbin, China
November 4, 2026
by
Paul French
Wole Talabi on the intersection of first contact stories and mysteries
November 4, 2026
by
Wole Talabi
Bobcats, "Twin Peaks," deer: What influenced Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes' new novel
November 4, 2026
by
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
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"A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent."