The 1973 film Messiah of Evil doesn’t scare with monsters—it shows instead how horror can annex a place, compelling you to pass through familiar and traumatic rooms, dread gathering as your heel meets the floor.
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The author of the new Jann Wenner biography Sticky Fingers on writing a book that angers its subject, the influence and legacy of Rolling Stone, and the narcissism of Baby Boomers.
On the television lives of two spooky primetime families, the Addams and the Munsters.
Fascinated by Lou Reed's New York, I moved to St. Mark's Place two decades too late, and the sickness I got there followed me for years.
The author of Brother on inherited trauma, not telling stories that make Canada feel good, and how communities endure.
Songwriter Jim Steinman found his muse in the performer—and, forty years ago, they released their iconic, operatic rock album, Bat Out of Hell.
The author of Rise of the Necrofauna on cloning departed pets, important beetles, and the power of the northern white rhino.
Discovering the balance between grace and effort in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
For a decade, the BDSM site Kink.com has filmed scenes for its more than 50,000 members in a hundred-year-old armory in downtown San Francisco. This year, the final erotic frames were shot on the premises.
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