books Chuck Tingle's new queer Christian horror novel Camp Damascus is genuinely terrifying Thom Dunn

horror Denmark's Recreational Fear Lab studies the science of why we love horror Thom Dunn

misogyny "Tingle Monsters" is an incredibly unsettling ASMR feminist horror film Thom Dunn

video Suspenseful short film about witnessing someone pushed onto subway tracks Andrea James

tv Severance Season 2 officially revealed Grant St. Clair

movies Netflix silently releases new Takashi Miike film Lumberjack the Monster Natalie Dressed

politics Breitbart's unhinged "Civil War" reviewer dreams of a President who "shoots journalists on sight" Yoy Luadha

movie reviews "Civil War" is an isolating, information-starved psychological horror Roy Christopher

video games A game where virtual friendship turns nightmarish: KinitoPET's psychological horror experience Gail Sherman

Comic Books Explore Batman's 85-year legacy in the lavish "DC: Batman Deluxe Edition" Gareth Branwyn

book reviews A new art book, "Mask Garden," reveals the psychological horror of vintage UK paperback covers Mister Dobo

Mike Mignola Four celebrated comics creators gather for a haunting Christmas Eve anthology Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Testicles in a jar (and China's invasion of America) in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

law Daycare workers charged with child abuse after terrorizing kids Jennifer Sandlin

police Can polygraph tests weed out bad cops? Thom Dunn

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

tabloids Royal scandals, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein's "murder" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan