by Leviathan15, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for July's "New Weird Heard Round The World" category Back in 2003, M. John Harrison kicked off a discussion* on his online message board with the following question: “The New Weird. Who does it? What is it? Is it even anything?... Should we just call it Pick’n’Mix… Continue reading Corkscrew Into These 6 Globetrotting New Weird Tales
6 Exhilarating Tales of Excursions Gone Wrong
by Solomon Forse, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for July's "Provisions, Parkas, and Penguins" category As an avid outdoorsman living in the Rocky Mountains, there is nothing more thrilling to me than stuffing my pack with several days of supplies and adventuring into the great unknown. While I enjoy the sweeping landscapes and sublime… Continue reading 6 Exhilarating Tales of Excursions Gone Wrong
5 Dives Into Murky Depths
by @L. (she/her/hers/ella), curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for June's "Water, Water Everywhere" category Seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water…but who truly knows what lurks in the depths? Oceans, seas, rivers, streams, lakes, lagoons, and the water in our own bodies all, to some extent, hold secrets. Dive in and… Continue reading 5 Dives Into Murky Depths
6 Terrifying Treks BACK into the Cosmos
by Emily Hughes, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for June's "Space: The Mind-Fuck Frontier" category Regardless of what you might have heard on Twitter, space horror is alive, well, and very real.After all, what’s more horrifying than space? It’s an endless silent void at the razor-thin edge of what a human body can survive,… Continue reading 6 Terrifying Treks BACK into the Cosmos
Cock Your Head at these 5 Weird Horror Books
by @Nicholas Zielinski, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for June's "Weird Postmodernism" category Weird fiction is hard to define, but I’m going to do it anyway, with help from weird fiction’s most problematic grandpa: H.P. Lovecraft.In a landmark essay on the subject, he claims that all weird tales must contain “outer, unknown forces… and… Continue reading Cock Your Head at these 5 Weird Horror Books
6 Mangas That’ll Have Your Brain in a Spiral
by @Miskatonika, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for June's "👹 Picturing the Unimaginable: Horror Manga" category Manga is often imagined as just for kids, but there are a handful of artists working in Japan who have mastered the art of portraying horror. They offer a variety of scares—from gross out body horror to existential… Continue reading 6 Mangas That’ll Have Your Brain in a Spiral
6 Liminal Horrors That Exist in Your Peripheral Vision
by @Hildegardia, curator of HOWLS book club nominees for June's "🌉 Between Here and There" category Roadside Picnic by Arkadi & Boris Strugatski “Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien… Continue reading 6 Liminal Horrors That Exist in Your Peripheral Vision
6 Books by Trans Authors
by @ferris, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for May's "Trans-Scribed Terrors" category This list is intended as a diverse selection of horror stories written by transgender authors. As a trans person and a horror fan I feel there is a lack of mainstream discussion surrounding works by trans and gender non-conforming writers, though thankfully… Continue reading 6 Books by Trans Authors
6 Horror Novels That’ll Have You Feeling Like a Kid Again
by @Arboc Rednammoc, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for May's "Parents Just Don’t Understand" category Editor's note: This introduction contains a fair amount of inside jokes. Members of Howl Society will understand. Outsiders should join the Discord for something in the family of an explanation.Could you recite the first rule of HOWL Society without… Continue reading 6 Horror Novels That’ll Have You Feeling Like a Kid Again
6 Shuckingly Good Folk Horrors
by @_ghostgrrrl, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for May's "🌾The Books Are Not What They Seem" Folk horror has always been my favorite subgenre, as an avid fan of folklore around the world. What is Folk Horror? It’s secret cults and strange practices. It’s small towns and the secrets they hide. It’s liminal spaces… Continue reading 6 Shuckingly Good Folk Horrors