Rowan Fortune
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If we are to survive the crisis we that face, we need more than just survival for its own sake. Pointless gadgets are a guilty pleasure...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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