Rowan FortuneSep 11, 20215 minThrough the MistSPOILER ALERT: This blog contains spoilers for The Mist (Netflix 2017). Recently I watched Netflix’s The Mist, a TV series adaptation of...
Rowan FortuneMay 28, 20217 minSocialist Misery and World CatastropheThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...
Rowan FortuneMay 21, 20213 minDomestic DystopiasThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a review of Unheimlich Manoevres in the Dark....
Rowan FortuneApr 24, 20215 minLondon’s Shadows; Finland’s Lights Review On the Shoulders of Otava & Naming the Bones Before reading Laura Mauro On the Shoulders of Otava, I decided to pick up Naming the...
Rowan FortuneApr 2, 20215 minWhat Language Insists on HidingThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The one is a review of Christopher Slatsky's book The...
Rowan FortuneMar 20, 20215 minHowls of Fear and Loss, an English DreamThis is an essay-review of England’s Dark Dreaming, Paul Watson's second book of artwork, which can be purchased here. England’s Dark...
Rowan FortuneMar 12, 20214 minDisaster ClichésThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...
Rowan FortuneFeb 19, 20214 minLearning LossThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The review of the children's Lovecraft book, The Old One...
Rowan FortuneFeb 6, 20214 minThe Horror of EmbodimentReview ~ I Spit Myself Out by Tracy Fahey I’m not comfortable in me anymore. Much as Tracy Fahey’s earlier (second) collection The...
Rowan FortuneJan 22, 20218 minThe Hidden UncannyThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my reviews of two works of contemporary horror, ‘The...
Rowan FortuneJan 8, 20217 minPreface: Born in BloodThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is my preface for Born in Blood: Volume II by George Daniel Lea,...
Rowan FortuneDec 19, 20205 minCommon Ruin of the Contending ClassesThis essay has also been published by Mutiny. Is it time that we took dystopias seriously again? Whether it is US President-elect Biden’s...
Rowan FortuneDec 18, 20208 minBlurring DistinctionsThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. A Review of Born in Blood: Volume One, first published September 13,...
Rowan FortuneDec 12, 20206 min2020: A Year of ReadingFrom poetry to theory... It would be a grotesque understatement to say that 2020 has been a crap year. I have been luckier than many, but...
Rowan FortuneDec 11, 20203 minA Horror ManifestoThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. In reviewing George Daniel Lea's Strange Playgrounds, I explore the...
Rowan FortuneDec 4, 20206 minHaunted Halflives: A New GothicThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. Here I review The Finite and Trying to be So Quiet. First published...
Rowan FortuneNov 20, 20204 minThe Horror of the SelfThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. From Paranoid Fairytales to the Familiar-Strange, here I review two...
Rowan FortuneOct 24, 20208 minA Ludonarrative Phenomenology of a ChildhoodThe Binding of Isaac, a philosophical(ish) review The Binding of Isaac is unlike any other computer game. To begin, what in most games...
Rowan FortuneOct 16, 202011 minThe Grim Darkness of Anti-PoliticsThis is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...
Rowan FortuneOct 3, 20204 minGrim Dark’s Media SatireFrom satire to reality, from mismatched obscenities to grim comedy. The mid-90s game Crusader: No Remorse was amongst the first games I...