We are in the midst of a glorious Golden Age of paranormal fantasy—the last ten years, specifically, in genre fiction have been nothing short of landscape-changing. The days of rigidly defined categories (romance, fantasy, horror, etc.) are long gone. Today, genre-blending novels reign supreme: narratives with virtually limitless potential that freely utilize elements of fantasy, […]
Kim Harrison’s beloved Hollows series is drawing to a close, with just one installment to go since the recent release of penultimate volume The Undead Pool. Our vicarious sojourn in the Hollows of Cincinnati, among all of its supernatural creatures, is coming to an end. Debuting in 2004 with the release of Dead Witch Walking, Harrison’s […]
This has been a sad year for paranormal fantasy. On the heels of Charlaine Harris ending her Southern Vampire sequence, Nicole Peeler’s beloved and hugely popular Jane True series is now complete. Two iconic heroines—Jane and Sookie—have walked off into the sunset. But you’ve got to hand it to Peeler: she ended the Jane True saga […]
I wasted an hour of my life last Monday evening watching the premiere episode of a reality television show called Splash, in which a group of has-been actors and other assorted “celebrities”—like comedian Louie Anderson, Baywatch’s Nicole Eggert, and retired basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—compete in platform and springboard diving.
Leprechauns, the mischievous creatures from Irish folklore, are undeniably entrenched in American pop culture—or at least their homogenized stereotypes are. There is Lucky, the breakfast cereal mascot for Lucky Charms, who is obsessed with hording sweet confections shaped like pink hearts, purple moons, blue diamonds, and green clovers (“they’re magically delicious!”). There’s the murderous midget […]
