Ruthanna Emrys
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Washington, DC, United States
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Lions Drinking With Jackals: Molly Tanzer’s “Grave-Worms”
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we co… → Read More
Vampires of Madison Avenue: Fritz Leiber’s “The Girl With the Hungry Eyes”
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we co… → Read More
Maybe Just Don’t Rob Graves: Louisa May Alcott’s “Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse”
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we’re… → Read More
Love in the Time of Parasitic Breeding Strategies: Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
ROUSes? I Don’t Think They Work With Mummies: Henry Kuttner’s “The Graveyard Rats”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
The Puppy’s Revenge: George R. R. Martin’s “Sandkings”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
My Laugh is an Evil Laugh: Michael Chabon’s “The God of Dark Laughter”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Cassandra Draws the Four of Cups
“People don’t want to know the future,” the tarot reader goes on. She pulls off her headscarf, grimaces, reties it over hair tacky with sweat. “They want to talk through their troubles. They want y… → Read More
The Secret Lives of Serpents: Priya Sharma’s “Fabulous Beasts”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Bad Influences From Atlantis: H.P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro’s “The Last Test”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Things Man Was Not Meant to Buy: Lovecraftiana
With Thanksgiving on the horizon, your hosts are taking a break from story summaries to share our favorite bits of Lovecraftiana, and to send out a prayer to the gods of commerce and time travel fo… → Read More
Dreams Come True (Unfortunately): E.F. Benson’s “The Room in the Tower”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Poetic Raptures, Opium, and Necromancy: Edgar Allen Poe’s “Ligeia”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Publish and Perish: Ada Hoffman’s “The Mother of All Squid Builds a Library”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Get Ready to Twirl Your Mustaches: H.P. Lovecraft’s “Sweet Ermengarde”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Dependency! Dependency! Joanna Russ’s “The Little Dirty Girl”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
H.P. Lovecraft And The Shadow Over Horror
Lovecraft's stories are among the foundations of modern horror; they still have the power to terrify today. But his bigotry is just as horrific — so how do we deal with this all-too-human darkness? → Read More
A Little Dark Reading: Margaret Irwin’s “The Book”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. This week, w… → Read More
Reading Horror Can Arm Us Against A Horrifying World
Why read horror stories when the real world is scary enough on its own? Because horror does more than scare us — it teaches us how to live with being scared, and how to fight back against evil. → Read More
Reading Horror Can Arm Us Against A Horrifying World
Why read horror stories when the real world is scary enough on its own? Because horror does more than scare us — it teaches us how to live with being scared, and how to fight back against evil. → Read More