Home is familiar, home is welcoming, home is safe. Your house is oftentimes the place where everything is ok, the place where you can relax and be with people that you care about. But haunted houses take these… Read More
Tananarive Due’s The Good House is a modern spin on the classic horror novel, and while it is immensely entertaining as a ghost story, it breaks out of just being entertaining and makes a profound statement on the necessity of dealing with our demons and the healing power of sharing our truths. Throughout the novel, …
The American dream is something incredible. As Americans, we are blessed with the freedom to speak our mind, worship the religion of our choosing, be the proud homeowners of private property, and so much more. How priviledged we must be to have so much liberty with absolutely no consequence at all. How gracious we all …
In “Thesis IV: The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference” of his book Monster Culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that our fear of monsters lies in a fear of what is different, of what we don’t understand. He states that the “monstrous difference tends to be cultural, political, racial, economic, sexual”( Cohen, 7). While …
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