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    Through the Mist
    Rowan Fortune
    • Sep 11, 2021
    • 5 min

    Through the Mist

    SPOILER ALERT: This blog contains spoilers for The Mist (Netflix 2017). Recently I watched Netflix’s The Mist, a TV series adaptation of...
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    Socialist Misery and World Catastrophe
    Rowan Fortune
    • May 28, 2021
    • 7 min

    Socialist Misery and World Catastrophe

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay accepts that the crisis is ahead of us and has...
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    Domestic Dystopias
    Rowan Fortune
    • May 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    Domestic Dystopias

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay is a review of Unheimlich Manoevres in the Dark....
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    London’s Shadows; Finland’s Lights
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 24, 2021
    • 5 min

    London’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...
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    What Language Insists on Hiding
    Rowan Fortune
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 5 min

    What Language Insists on Hiding

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The one is a review of Christopher Slatsky's book The...
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    Howls of Fear and Loss, an English Dream
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 20, 2021
    • 5 min

    Howls of Fear and Loss, an English Dream

    This is an essay-review of England’s Dark Dreaming, Paul Watson's second book of artwork, which can be purchased here. England’s Dark...
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    Disaster Clichés
    Rowan Fortune
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 4 min

    Disaster Clichés

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The essay, written in COVID-19's earlier days, is a...
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    Learning Loss
    Rowan Fortune
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 4 min

    Learning Loss

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. The review of the children's Lovecraft book, The Old One...
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    The Horror of Embodiment
    Rowan Fortune
    • Feb 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Horror of Embodiment

    Review ~ I Spit Myself Out by Tracy Fahey I’m not comfortable in me anymore. Much as Tracy Fahey’s earlier (second) collection The...
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    The Hidden Uncanny
    Rowan Fortune
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 8 min

    The Hidden Uncanny

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays.This one revisits my reviews of two works of contemporary horror, ‘The...
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    Preface: Born in Blood
    Rowan Fortune
    • Jan 8, 2021
    • 7 min

    Preface: Born in Blood

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This is my preface for Born in Blood: Volume II by George Daniel Lea,...
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    Common Ruin of the Contending Classes
    Rowan Fortune
    • Dec 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    Common Ruin of the Contending Classes

    This essay has also been published by Mutiny. Is it time that we took dystopias seriously again? Whether it is US President-elect Biden’s...
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    Blurring Distinctions
    Rowan Fortune
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 8 min

    Blurring Distinctions

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. A Review of Born in Blood: Volume One, first published September 13,...
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    2020: A Year of Reading
    Rowan Fortune
    • Dec 12, 2020
    • 6 min

    2020: A Year of Reading

    From 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...
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    A Horror Manifesto
    Rowan Fortune
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    A Horror Manifesto

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. In reviewing George Daniel Lea's Strange Playgrounds, I explore the...
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    Haunted Halflives: A New Gothic
    Rowan Fortune
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 6 min

    Haunted Halflives: A New Gothic

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. Here I review The Finite and Trying to be So Quiet. First published...
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    The Horror of the Self
    Rowan Fortune
    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Horror of the Self

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. From Paranoid Fairytales to the Familiar-Strange, here I review two...
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    A Ludonarrative Phenomenology of a Childhood
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 24, 2020
    • 8 min

    A Ludonarrative Phenomenology of a Childhood

    The Binding of Isaac, a philosophical(ish) review The Binding of Isaac is unlike any other computer game. To begin, what in most games...
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    The Grim Darkness of Anti-Politics
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 11 min

    The Grim Darkness of Anti-Politics

    This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. This piece examines the strange aesthetic mismatch involved in the...
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    Grim Dark’s Media Satire
    Rowan Fortune
    • Oct 3, 2020
    • 4 min

    Grim Dark’s Media Satire

    From satire to reality, from mismatched obscenities to grim comedy. The mid-90s game Crusader: No Remorse was amongst the first games I...
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