flytrap fridays Worst Vacation Ever Underneath every quaint small town, there's class war. It's just a little more literal in some.
Subcultures Inside the Tiny, Weird World of Halloween ‘Villaging' As part of this Boomer-coded subculture, two companies vie for the attention of weirdos like me, who prefer to spend their time—and money—constructing small, spooky landscapes.
horror How I Learned to Love Supernatural Horror The story of how one exvangelical trans girl found herself marathoning episodes of Supernatural.
fiction Hell in a Handbook EXCLUSIVE: leaked documents show inner workings of the Underworld's largest afterlife services conglomerate.
television The Freaky Feminism of 'Evil,' TV's Weirdest Horror Hit Showrunners Michelle and Robert King surrounded their demons-of-the-week with feminist signifiers, but ultimately stopped short of really condemning the patriarchy.
religion Why Evangelicals Are So Weird About Halloween Demons, domination, and a truly terrifying election season.
politics The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back Setting boundaries doesn’t make a woman a villain in a man’s story, or a feminist hero in her own. But the pinkwashing of feminism tells us women should do whatever they want to do—even if that means aiding and abetting genocide.