When I first heard the name “The Black Dahlia”, it was in reference to the 2006 film. Based on critiques I heard from other students, I inferred only that it was an uncomfortably explicit movie …
Why Do We Care About the Black Dahlia?
The Longest Night
Autumn sunshine veiled by grey clouds lit the lake at the heart of the forest. It was a secret place, spoken of in stories about knights and kings and magical swords, but those days were …
The Vengeful Potato Goddess
In the beginning, there was soil, sky, and sea. It was a nice start; the views were lovely and the weather was, generally speaking, fair. But the giants who created the soil, sky, and sea …
The Red Mother Graphic Novel Volume 1 (2020) Review
Don’t look…Mother is watching. Effective horror feeds your existential fears and leaves you looking over your shoulder when you’re alone. The Red Mother (2020) brings this kind of horror. Written by Jeremy Haun and illustrated …
The Magician’s Land
Summary: Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose, he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic, …
Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Summary: A very young woman’s first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate…An estate haunted by …
Evil (2019) TV Series Season 1 Review
Satan, psychopaths, and a demon named…George? A psychologist and a priest walk into an exorcism. Both have different opinions on what’s wrong with the “possessed”, but who’s right? That’s the sort of question every …
Vampire Detective
She’d been working for the department for nearly three years now, and still failed to receive promotion. In the beginning she’d diligently taken on every task and assignment with enthusiasm; she was the youngest …
What is Witchcraft, Really?
The word witchcraft is thrown around a lot these days. It shows up in television, movies, tv, books, and in the rapidly growing world we describe with umbrella terms like new age or pagan. Some …
