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Exploring Folk Horror: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh takes the folk horror story form towards disturbing, often funny, conclusions.
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The Clarion Call: How South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Represents Change
The EFF’s aesthetic is always brought back to revolutionary images in part because they work so hard to remind South Africans of the change they possess.
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The Tilted Pentagram: An Occult Fiction Novel by Matthew MacDevette
The Tilted Pentagram is, at heart, a story of adventure, self-discovery, and expressing the magic humans feel they must keep inside. Its characters are eccentric at times and sympathetic when it matters.
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Psychological Horror and the Creation of Unknown Entities
An impossible exorcism of Lovecraft from the genre might just be the only call for action I can make. Or at least a re-look at his influence to better understand the limits set where one cannot see beyond him.
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Netflix’s Inkabi is a Bad Movie
The way that Netflix uses the Inkabi lore feels like they wanted a tale with an African spiritual spin and did not think it necessary to make it make sense.