Horror
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore
Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers
What happened to horror films?
Watery idealism is robbing the genre of its fear
Ghosts of Christmas past
Why Brits love their yuletide horror
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
Our deepest, darkest fears
The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
