Hey everyone! It's your friendly neighborhood cyclone of emotions here, finally getting a minute to update with some reviews. Finding time lately has been a seemingly futile exercise in having excellent ideas but no actual time/energy/resources to flesh them out. I know I'm preaching
As the utterly brilliant and relentlessly powerful Audre Lorde once said: "...the master's tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact
It's the day after a wedding, and I. AM. TI-RED. This week has simply been hard. Between the truly cosmic and ideological dissonance I witness every day, to gearing up for the very first wedding I've ever been in–it can be a lot. Thankfully, my
As I glide into the final days of September, I have to say I'm super glad the month is over. It's been an intensely busy month between moving, weddings, activities, and celebrations and little bean is exhausted. A lovely month, just very busy. Regardless, I am
Blessed early Samhain to you all. It's your beloved book reviewer, arriving on a creepy carriage driven by skeletal horsepower to bring you a review in collaboration with Pride Book Tours. They provide sign-ups as a means of supporting queer authors by creating little virtual Bookstagram tours for
Hello, beloveds. I'm so sorry it's been a minute. Moving to Philadelphia has been a hectic undertaking BUT I'm glad to be doing so. The good news, however, is despite the chaos, I'm still reading! My god, 2024 has been an insane
As summer begins its steady death throes to transform into the best season of the year (fight me), it's only fitting that nothing at all changes on this blog. Because let's be honest, I review horror all year-round, so it's just a bit more
Ohhhhhhhhhhh, mama is SO behind on reviews!! As I'm sure most of you have seen over the last month I had been gearing up for our Dark Ink event at Doylestown. I'm still reeling from the success of the day and I thank everyone whose been
I'm going to try something a little different today. Earlier this year I wrote a piece reviewing Mike Flannagan's stellar Poe adaptation Fall of the House of Usher, which leaned much more toward my old school cultural criticism roots. Not that those roots have deteriorated, my
Woof, it has been a hectic few weeks. Trying to finish this review piece was hell in a handbasket, but WE MADE IT BABYY!! Also, I wanted to take my time because these are some in-depth books, and I wanted to offer them the attention they justly deserve. Below are
It's a sunny and decently well-temperate day in Philadelphia. Often on days following heat-waves or other extreme weather, I find myself taking the world in anew. While this sometimes feels rather silly, given that no true change has taken place, it could in part be due to a
Emma E. Murray is having a hell of a year. Just a few months ago, her little novelette of sapphic rage revenge, When the Devil, burst onto the scene from Shortwave Press. But she's not quite done with us, as this August will see the release of debut