Different Seasons

Where once delirious theorizing about novels was the province of English professors and their students, safely locked away in the ivory tower of academia, in the modern age the democratizing force of the internet has made it everyone’s business to think way too hard about what they watch, read, or listen to, and then type up […]

“Clowns are scary.” It’s a universally accepted hot take these days, a cultural signifier anyone can get behind. Or is it? Setting aside the talents of many hard-working performing clowns, many people still find joy in jesters in wacky makeup. Not me, though. I was scared of clowns before being clown-scared was cool. Evidence: I […]

Hulu’s Castle Rock is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about new series of the year, for many good reasons. The cast? Superlative: André Holland, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, and Bill Skarsgård (just to name a few). The source material? Classic—it’s an original story, but draws on the sprawling shared universe of Stephen […]

It’s understandable if you still think ‛horror’ when you hear the name ‛Stephen King.’ He single-handedly established horror as a bestselling genre in the 1970s and 1980s, and his best-known works are all classified as such. To this day his efforts outside the label are regarded as outliers, experiments, or mid-career crises, which is incredibly […]