We read, we watched, we cried, we screamed
BOOKWORM comes to a close - or does it?
O’ ye fateful worms, caressed by the long, timorous finger of email-based longish-form creative nonfiction; cradled by the sweet, tender knowledge that what we do here is not, in fact, in vain, if only we can live to consume content for one more day...
I ask you: does all of life descend into chaos? Probably so. Fortunately, this four-part Food for the Worm series about horror adaptations wraps up quite neatly. Stick a fork in BOOKWORM, she’s done.
Lo, fear not! To soothe your Monday anxieties and quell your fears about the futility of life and order, I’m serving up a RECAP.
Here, once again, are four piping hot reads from three fabulous guest writers and me:
A DREAM OF STONE LIONS
Dreaming is a fact of life, Jackson tells us right away. Yet she spends the rest of her novel — and, in many ways, the whole of her life — excavating dreams to see what horror lay wriggling at their rotten cores. - Elizabeth Lepro
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (WITH GORE)
I still prefer the anxiety caused by movie and book monsters over the human ones that can actually hurt me — people are far scarier. So why do adults feel the need to censor young people from book boogeymen that can’t actually claw through the page and tear their hearts out? - Sky Regina
STANOPTICON
The proliferation of fandom that has led to an endless parade of sequels, reboots, and podcasts has also resulted in fan’s demands to access—even completely infiltrate—celebrity’s personal lives. - Celia Mattison
BAD DAD
This is where Kubrick and King's visions overlap in a man who has always known he is abstractly capable of causing harm, but is beginning to fear he is capable of doing so purposely — one who is, we imagine, all but begging to be convinced otherwise. We see this man with a chance to fix something, to right the scales even a little; we see him decide not to. - Rachel Kincaid