The New Monsters - Blog Collection

Sydney Briar Is Alive - A Mostly Spoiler-Free Analysis of 2008's Pontypool

In this 2008 movie, Stephen McHatty plays Grant Mazzy, a radio DJ who’s used to his words getting him into trouble. The film opens on a black screen, with blue sound waves that rise and fall with the sound of the spoken word. What starts as a normal monologue becomes...

Book cover for All The Tommy's In The World. A Mannequin in a cloak stands against a spooky red backdrop.

All The Tommy's In The World - One Tommy Too Many

All the Tommy's In the World spans 90 chapters and clocks in at an inexplicable 552 pages. Having myself been a horror Youtuber, I really wanted to like this book. All the Tommy's In the World follows a group of characters I don't care about through a bizarre narrative and nonsensical plot. There's a fairly graphic...

Book cover for We Have Always Lived In the Castle. A girl peeks through the knothole of an old fence while her hair blows against a blue background.

Wicked Feminism: Unraveling the Magic of "We Have Always Lived In the Castle"

"We Have Always Lived In the Castle" by Shirley Jackson is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that delves into the themes of isolation, identity, and power. The story follows the lives of the Blackwood sisters, Constance and Merricat, who live in seclusion in their family's...