The Boy on the Bridge

If the last decade has proven anything, it’s that people love a good zombie apocalypse. Something about the mindlessness of a shambling horde of undead just feels right to us right now—almost as if we know, somehow, the end of the world is nigh, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Humanity literally wandering around […]

I have always been intrigued with characters matriculating in the midst of an apocalypse. They often grow up with very different ethical and social senses than their parents (or other adults acting in loco parentis), which can be a very real source of conflict. The differences between the boy Carl of the comic version of The […]

Biology, especially on a smaller scale, is sometimes completely indistinguishable from horror. The real world has given us ravenous insects with absolutely terrifying eating and breeding habits and plants that trap prey for days while digesting it alive, amid numerous other unsettling marvels. But among the most unnerving natural phenomena are fungi. There are mushrooms […]