At the start of the semester, when the question “what is a monster?” was posed, I had a clear answer in my head. To me, a monster was...

Okay, here we go! It's the last full week of classes and this course is coming to a close. I've had a lot to say this semester, whether...

I'm going to be honest: I'm not sure what to make of Mexican Gothic. Maybe it's because I haven't read enough of it to feel like I can...

From Carmen Maria Machado's collection of stories, Her Body and Other Parties, "The Husband Stitch" was my favourite. I think it's...

I have mixed feelings about Fernando A. Flores' Tears of the Trufflepig. When I first started reading it, I loved the writing style and I...

From everything we've read so far as a class, Manuel Muñoz's What You See in the Dark is my favourite. I have to say, I'm a bit bummed...

Horror as many people know it involves sitting in a dark theatre at the edge of their seats, anticipating splatters of brain matter and...

I'm going to be honest. I'm not sure how I feel about The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. The novel is rooted in storytelling and recalling...

In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz has an unexpected approach to horror, using fukú and the paranormal as well as...

In Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the narrator has a fixation on bodies. The titular characteris defined, in part, by...