By Bretton Cadigan As a kid I’d often head to the mall with my parents, and if I’d saved up enough allowance, I’d head to GameStop and buy a new video game, along with the strategy guide. If you don’t know about strategy guides (maybe you don’t play games, or you play games better than I do), a strategy guide is a beautifully illustrated paperback manual of hints and strategies meant to help uncover and Read more
By Nick Mendillo The film Good Boy was released on October 3, 2025. Marketed as “a horror film that follows the perspective of the dog,” it immediately intrigued me. I’ve always believed all things are better with dogs—especially horror—and knowing the dog wouldn’t die (as confirmed by director Ben Leonberg) made it irresistible. The premise is deceptively simple: Indy, the canine protagonist, experiences the threats and eerie surroundings of a haunted house. On its surface, Read more
By Marielle Seche Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Sexual Assault, Abuse “KATABASIS, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.” R. F. Kuang’s latest book, Katabasis, is a dark academia fantasy novel that follows two Cambridge graduate students of magick: Alice Law and Peter Murdoch. They use their magical knowledge to journey into Hell to retrieve the soul of their professor and academic advisor, Jacob Grimes—whom they may have accidentally killed. With what’s Read more
By Jagger van Vliet From out of a murky trance, there came the sudden rushing of light, the brutal sting of salt, and the sullen grey of morning. A thin, brown rat named Percival awoke from a terrible dream and looked blearily out into the gloom. Nothing around him was familiar, save for the hordes of other rats who were also waking from their own respective slumbers. All of the rat colony, it would seem, Read more
By Zenia deHaven The rescue mission was going great until the geography quiz. Though Eris reveled in her unsavory profession of snatching purses, gathering blackmail, and pilfering anything shiny she could get her itchy hands on, the pay was sporadic. She could be rolling in gold one week and then counting out bronze pieces on her landlord’s desk the next. This was one of those weeks. So when she saw a flyer promising 20,000 gold Read more