Now this is how you mark Halloween everyone! Particularly if you’re Matt Groening and you want your then-latest Treehouse of Horror intro – this was for the 2013 special – to include everything from zombies to mummies to mutants and apocalyptic visions of a hellish future. Hire master storyteller Continue Reading
George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo is a genuinely startling novel (curated article)
Adam Kelly, University of York I am someone who reads, teaches, and writes about contemporary American fiction for a living. Knowing this, you might expect that fresh, experimental novels would constantly be arriving on my desk, that I would be inundated with literary innovation. But it is in fact Continue Reading
Meow … BOO! Simon’s Cat finds some creepy crawlies #Halloween
SNAPSHOT A curious cat uncovers a coven of creepy crawlies. Simon’s Cat FINALLY gets into the attic and gives Simon a spooky surprise! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Gotta say I’m with Simon on the sheer evilness of spiders. Forget the zombies, ghosts and demented sprites – it’s spiders that Continue Reading