The Girl with Ghost Eyes: The Daoshi Chronicles, Book One

The Western is part of the American mythology. There’s just something about those wide open spaces and their freedom from law and order that fires our imaginations. Rockstar Games knows this—which is why they’ve just announced they are returning to the wide vistas and strange haunts of their own Western series, Red Dead Redemption, with a highly anticipated […]

It’s the 20th anniversary of one of the most groundbreaking genre shows in the history of television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Who knew a TV show based on a failed B-movie would be so life—and industry—changing? Joss Whedon’s career-defining achievement gave us many new genre tropes to chew on. The Slayer and her scooby gang introduced […]

This week, HBO debuts Folklore, an anthology series focusing solely on Asian horror. And while it feels reductive to lump so many different cultures under a single classifying term, there is something markably different about these distinctly non-Western tales. The way they incorporate lingering atmosphere and building tension; the long, eerie stretches of silence; the sudden bursts […]