Alex MacFadyen is a muppet-identified writer, bookworm, and creator of strange liminal creatures. You can find more of his creations and musings at Critter Lab on Wordpress.
I’ve decided to round off Switcheroo Month at the Gutter with ghosts. Are ghost stories reputable, you might ask? As a genre, not really, but as a literary device they’ve been used to explore some of the most serious themes imaginable, from personal tragedy and grief to unresolved […]
With the sprawling desert landscapes and vast rumbling sandworms of Dune 2 now gracing theatre screens, it seems like the perfect time to raise the specter of a very different Arrakis that never came to pass. While Denis Villeneuve’s treatment of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci fi novel, Dune, […]
Horror wears many different skins. Sometimes literally, although in this case I mean that while people have come up with a multitude of wildly different concepts for horror stories, what lurks underneath that shifting surface of zombies, serial killers, parasites, and clowns is our deepest fears. Among the […]
Ever since I was a kid, I remember waiting impatiently for the monsters in the movie to appear. I was always moving around, doing head stands or jiggling my knees, but whenever there were strange creatures, shaggy beasts, alien beings, or puppets on the screen they had my […]
It’s October and as I lie nestled snug in my bed, visions of spooky things dance in my head! Fine, that’s all year round, but in the month of Spook-o-ween it’s legit, y’all. I’m more about the creepiness than the gore, but I’m willing to deal with some […]
Wait, was that real? It’s a question I ask myself more and more often as I whirl around in the blender of art, tech, media, propaganda, and sales pitch that beams into my eye and ear holes from all the electronic devices I own. The lines between news […]
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