







What follows is a minor modern horror story.
The internet's favorite horror subgenre is breaking into the big time
Backrooms brings liminal horror to the masses, and with it, a generation looking for a past that might not exist.

The Pines asks what would Alan Wake look like if it was about therapy, and I kind of want to know the answer
The open world psychological horror RPG looks familiar, but has enough going on to help it stand out.



NIGHTMARE OPERATOR
NIGHTMARE OPERATOR is a TPS action horror about hunting Youkai in the haunted ruins of Tokyo. Combat fuses the tense, shooting gameplay of classic survival horror, with the skill-based mechanics and execution of fighting games.

Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly Hack - Locus
I've mentioned before, stories are weird. I mean, really, really weird. Nothing that happens in a piece of fiction has any consequence in the real world. Romeo and Juliet did not live, did not die, and the ''tragedy'' they represent is objectively less important than the tragedy of the live yogurt culture I digested at the breakfast table this morning. My theory is that the parts of our brains that …Read More

The New Wounded
This book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the “new wounded” (brain lesion patients) forms the matter of the confrontation.


Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo
A dark spirit lives on your porch,” the medium told me. Excuse me? Prickles of dread and fear blossomed in my chest. What the hell am I supposed to do about that? I was only beginning my journey in…

Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities
Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ Divided Critics, but It’s the Ultimate Coming-of-Age Story 20 Years Later
Movies don't change, we do. And where you are in life may affect how you receive the heartbreaking vision of this film.

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

Freaky Tales (film)
Freaky Tales is a 2024 American anthology action comedy film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The film stars Pedro Pascal, Boden and Fleck's longtime collaborator Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, singer Normani in her film debut, Dominique Thorne, and Jack Champion.


Stranger Things
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Moral Imaginations - But how could it work? Like this? moralimaginations.com/watchet-imagines-1 foodrise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MT…
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