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A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level linguistic worldbuilding, but the nitty-gritty of inventing vocabulary is tiresome. The seed of this essay was a simple […]
This is very difficult to write. The fabulous writer Richard Bowes passed away on December 24, 2023. We first met Rick many years ago at a WisCon where we had an amazing lunch full of stories from him about New York City and the different scenes he belonged to through the years. Rick was more […]
When I unleash a book onto the world, I imagine it as a fiction-fueled thresher, reaping hearts and leaving a trail of those who laughed, cried, and were changed in its wake. This might seem like a fantasy unto itself, but this metaphor is based not in my own wildest dreams, but in science. A […]
In a small glass cabinet at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, there are three red transistors. On June 21, 1948, these transistors were part of the first programmable electronic computing device, nicknamed “Baby.” Much like the invention of the spinning jenny in that same city almost two centuries prior, it’s difficult to […]
Uncanny Magazine would like to thank the following people for supporting us on Patreon. This magazine would not be possible without their support. Space Unicorn Ranger Corps RECRUITS Jens Polikeit, Sabrina, fidric, Marie Jackson, Sonny Phillips, Joe Pickering, Wichael Tellez, David, Glenn Carruthers, Emily Crossen, Catharine Roseberry, Ibrahem Wasti, Katie Sinkoski, Jenny Barber, Dawn […]
Out There Screaming presents a multifaceted and inclusive approach to horror “…he who has been treated as the devil recognizes the devil when they meet.” —James Baldwin In his book-length essay, “The Devil Finds Work,” James Baldwin explains why he finds the horror presented in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist so underwhelming. He felt that the […]
The Marvels, the sequel to Captain Marvel, has come and gone in the theaters, and with it, a whole number of questions have been raised. The first film was tremendously successful ($1.13 billion in worldwide grosses), but four years later the second film struggled to break $200 million across the globe. It’s the lowest-grossing Marvel […]
When my gay Southern Gothic novel Summer Sons came out way back in 2021, I entertained myself by collecting phrases folks used to describe its particular ambiance. The vibes, if you will. My favorites were always the double entendres involving temperature: sweltering, sticky, scalding, scorching, or the tried-and-true classic, “fucking hot.” Anyone who wanted to […]
M. R. James (1862-1936) is the writer of ghost stories, both the acceptable literary standard-bearer for them and actually pretty bloody radical. In his youth, James saw an inexplicably horrible face through a gap in a fence. In later life, as an utterly closeted gay man who’d found his niche as an academic, his peers […]
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