Fiction: “The Lawn Jockey” by Mary T. Miller

I’d been thinking about that swimming hole for nearly half a year, since the middle of winter. I first saw … More

“Attend the Way,” short fiction by Theodore Wheeler

It’s because he has a train to catch that Rodney leaves his room after suppertime. He puts on dress shoes … More

“Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate You”: A Critical Analysis of APOSTLE, the 2018 Netflix orginal film directed by Gareth Evans

  Warning: Spoilers abound!

THE DOGS OF DETROIT, Brad Felver’s debut short story collection, reviewed by Michael A. Ferro

The Dogs of Detroit, by Brad Felver. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2018. 200 pages. $21.95, hardcover. If … More

Three Poems by Jeremy Behreandt

A Third Place The bell tower prescribed an auditory space that corresponded to a particular notion of territoriality, one obsessed … More

WHILE YOU WERE GONE, a novel by Sybil Baker, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron

While You Were Gone, by Sybil Baker. C&R Press, June 2018. 294 pages. $18.00, paper. While You Were Gone is … More

Two Erasures from AS WE KNOW by Amaranth Borsuk & Andy Fitch

      *** Amaranth Borsuk’s most recent book is Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016), a collection of poems. Previous … More

“In Darkness,” a horror memoir by Craig Wallwork, author of GORY HOLE: A HORROR TRIPLE BILL

  Horror has been with me from a very early age. I found several copies of The House of Hammer … More

“Monster Family Portraits”: Fourteen Ghost and Monster Movies that Inspired or Influenced GUIGNOL & OTHER SARDONIC TALES by Orrin Grey

    My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea of … More

“Life During Wartime”: Matthew Morgenstern on Matt Young’s Iraq War memoir EAT THE APPLE

Eat the Apple, by Matt Young. New York: Bloomsbury USA, February 2018. 272 pages. $26.99, hardcover. In 1979’s “Life During … More

“Rooms Echo Louder without Anything Inside of Them”: Hillary Leftwich Talks to Steven Dunn, Author of water & power

Steven Dunn’s second novel, water & power, is published by Tarpaulin Sky and available to order now. Shortlisted for Granta’s … More

Fiction: “Men with Potential: A Guide to Getting Sober and Staying Sober” by Kate St. Germain

Schedule a date with a tall someone with salt-and-pepper hair who finds you online. He will play drums. He will … More