Choke Hold
Choke Hold is the 2011 sequel to Christa Faust’s Money Shot. It offers the first-person narrative of former porn actress Angel Dare as she tries to save the […]
Articles by Lucy A. Snyder
Dead But Dreaming
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. […]
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven […]
Rappaccini’s Daughter
The classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale “Rappaccini’s Daughter” tells the story of a young man named Giovanni who moves to Padua to be a university student. […]
The Graveyard Book
(Spoilers follow!) The Graveyard Book is a children’s novel by popular author Neil Gaiman. It’s constructed as a set of linked stories — Gaiman loosely modeled the […]
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Zombie is a 1995 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It’s the epistolary story of Quentin P., the under-achieving son of a college professor who is out […]
The Thief of Always
The Thief of Always is a children’s novel by Clive Barker. First published in 1992, it tells the tale of 10-year-old Harvey Swick who on one […]
Big Love Island Adventure
One casual online game I’ve enjoyed for a while is Fish Wrangler, which you can play via Facebook or at Fish-wrangler.com. In real life, I […]
The Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad’s novella The Secret Sharer tells the story of a young sea-captain who aids Leggatt, the mate of the Sephora who is a fugitive after killing […]
The Masque of the Red Death
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of Prince Prospero who, when hemorrhagic fever rages through in his kingdom, retreats […]
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a classic horror novella by H.P. Lovecraft. It tells the first-person story of a young man on break from college who […]