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Check out a variety of columns on Reactor, from rereads and rewatches, to themed articles, and more! Columns that are currently active, or recently completed, are collected here.

Elantris Reread

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Elantris Reread: “The Hope of Elantris” and Closing Thoughts

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Elantris Reread: Chapter Sixty-Three and Epilogue

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Elantris Reread: Chapter Sixty-Two

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Elantris Reread: Chapter 61

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Elantris Reread: Chapter Sixty

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Fifty-Seven to Fifty-Nine

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Fifty-Five and Fifty-Six

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Fifty-Three and Fifty-Four

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Fifty-One and Fifty-Two

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Forty-Nine and Fifty

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Forty-Seven and Forty-Eight 

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Elantris Reread: Chapters Forty-Four to Forty-Six 

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Five Books About...

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reading recommendations

Bears in the Woods: Eight SFF/H books with Ursine Characters

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detail from the cover of A Philosophy of Thieves
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heists

Six High Tech Heists That Defy the Odds

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Five Books About

Treading the Veil: Five Books Featuring Encounters With Death and the Dead

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Photo of a model office with several workstations and model workers
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Five Books About

Five Books With the Worst and Weirdest Office Jobs

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detail from the cover of The Splinter in the Sky
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Five Books About

Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling

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Detail from the cover of Bitterblue; art by Kuri Huang
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Five Books About

Five SFF Books With Abilities You Absolutely Do Not Want

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romance

Five Fantasy Books Where the Love Interest’s Face Is Hidden

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Images from three SFF-adjacent video games: Blue Prince, Strange Horticulture, and Mass Effect
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video games

Five Video Games for Every Type of SFF Reader

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Five Books About

Five SFF Books About Forced Proximity and Its Romantic Ramifications

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Photo taken during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower
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reading recommendations

Six Star-Gazing Books to Celebrate the Perseid Meteor Shower This Summer

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Detail from the cover of The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarifi by S.A. Chakraborty
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Five Books About

Five Warm Weather Fantasy Books for Summer

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Detail from the cover of A Cruel Thirst
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Five Books About

Five SFF Books for Darcy and Elizabeth Stans

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The Great Superhero Rewatch

Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) in The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

Fourth Time’s the Charm? — The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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Close-up of Superman (David Corenswet) with an angry mob behind him in Superman (2025)
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“People were going to die!” — Superman (2025)

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Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in Thunderbolts*
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“We’re all losers, and we lost” — Thunderbolts*

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Screenshot from Captain America: Brave New World, showing Captain America from the back with wings spread.
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You’re not Steve Rogers!” — Captain America: Brave New World

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven in Kraven the Hunter
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You are nothing”— Kraven the Hunter

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Tom Hardy as Venom in Venom: The Last Dance
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Aliens suck!” —  Venom: The Last Dance

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Jack Kesy as Hellboy in Hellboy: The Crooked Man
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Forgiven don’t mean forgotten” — Hellboy: The Crooked Man

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Lady Gaga as Harleen Quinzel and Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You have a joke for us today?” — Joker: Folie à Deux

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Bill Skarsgård as Eric/The Crow in The Crow (2024)
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“There’s nothing there but here” — The Crow (2024)

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Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You were always the wrong guy” — Deadpool & Wolverine

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Close-up of Night Man in his superhero costume, featuring a black rubber cowl with one red eyepiece
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“I cannot place my life in the hands of a saxophone player!” — Night Man

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Cassandra Web (Dakota Johnson) in a promotional image for Madame Web
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Now you’re really showing off” — Madame Web

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Mark As Read

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Mark as Read

Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here’s How

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Holiday Cheer

The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Portrait de Marguerite (The Reader) by Henri Matisse, 1906
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Mark as Read

What Keeps You Reading?

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Mark as Read

The Accidental Completionist

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Mark as Read

There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books

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Mark as Read

Form, Function, and the Sentences We Collect

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Painting of a bearded man hunched over a desk or table, reading a paper with his right hand to his forehead
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(It’s Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)

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Mark as Read

We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks

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Mark as Read

The Thing You Want to Read Is Out There (Probably)

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Watercolor sketch depicting two children on stage, performing for an audience of four other children.
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Mark as Read

The Theater Kids at the End of the World

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Mark as Read

Magic Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

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Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) stand together during the final scene of Rogue One: A Star Aars Story
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Mark as Read

It’s Okay to Know Where the Story Is Going

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Reading The Weird

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Back to the Land, Like It Or Not: Hiron Ennes’ “Our Best Selves”

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Don’t Trust the Tentacles: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 9)

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That Knock Could Be a Homicidal Maniac: American Horror Stories’ “Aura”

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Look, Up in the Sky: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 8)

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Old-School Scream Queens: Sam J. Miller’s “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead”

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Squamous Puzzles: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 7)

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Quirky, Quixotic, and Inspired by Dark Dreams of Madness: Caitlin Kiernan’s “Our Lady of Arsia Mons”

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Brain Surgery Without Safewords: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 6)

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Reader Beware: John Langan’s “Errata”

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Mary Magdalene Strikes Back: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 5)

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Lady, Tiger, Earthquake, Giant: S.P. Miskowski’s “Water Main”

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Brain Surgery With Safewords: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 4)

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Reading The Wheel of Time

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Baseball, Bene Gesserit, and the Maidens of the Spear

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Reading The Wheel of Time: Cadsuane, Perrin, and Siuan Wrestle with Control in The Gathering Storm (Part 12)

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Reading The Wheel of Time: Egwene Makes a Stand in The Gathering Storm (Part 11) 

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Reading The Wheel of Time: Philosophy Has Upsides and Downsides in The Gathering Storm (Part 10)

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Reading The Wheel of Time:The Gathering Storm (Part 9)

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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm (Part 8)

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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm (Part 7)

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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm (Part 6) 

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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm (Part 5)

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch

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Rereads and Rewatches
Star Trek

These Were the Voyages — Looking Back on 13 Years of Star Trek Rewatches

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Captain Archer gives the Vulcan salute. Screenshot from Star Trek: Enterprise "Kir'Shara"
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: Fourth Season Overview

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Star Trek

Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “These are the Voyages…”

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Screenshot of T'Pol holding a baby in Star Trek: Enterprise, "Terra Prime"
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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Terra Prime”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Demons”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “In a Mirror, Darkly” (Part I)

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Bound”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Divergence”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Affliction”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “The Aenar”

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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “United”

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Terry Pratchett Book Club

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Shepherd’s Crown, Part III

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Shepherd’s Crown, Part II

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Shepherd’s Crown, Part I

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Raising Steam, Part IV

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Raising Steam, Part III

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Raising Steam, Part II

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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Raising Steam, Part I

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Cover of Terry Pratchett's Dodger, showing the title character entering or exiting a manhole in a dark street, tipping his high hat, and holding a blade, with a dog by his side.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Dodger, Part III

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Cover of Terry Pratchett's Dodger, showing the title character entering or exiting a manhole in a dark street, tipping his high hat, and holding a blade, with a dog by his side.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Dodger, Part II

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Cover of Terry Pratchett's Dodger, showing the title character entering or exiting a manhole in a dark street, tipping his high hat, and holding a blade, with a dog by his side.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Dodger, Part I

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Cover of Snuff by Terry Pratchett, showing Vimes steering a boat, surrounded by chickens, in a chaotic scene.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Snuff, Part IV

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Cover of Snuff by Terry Pratchett, showing Vimes steering a boat, surrounded by chickens, in a chaotic scene.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Snuff, Part III

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Close Reads

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Close Reads

Gandalf and the Search for One’s True Name

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A scene from Star Wars: The Acolyte; Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Koril (Margarita Levieva) stand with the rest of the coven.
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Close Reads

A Gentle Request for More Witches in Star Wars

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Close Reads

Illustrating the Subtext: Edward Gorey’s Homoerotic Cover Art for Melville’s Redburn

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Alicent (Olivia Cooke) stands with King Viserys (Paddy Considine) in the midst of his model of Old Valyria in House of the Dragon.
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Close Reads

A Eulogy for House of the Dragon’s Model of Old Valyria

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Cassandra Webb attends a baby shower and tries to lighten the mood.
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The One Truly Great Scene in Madame Web

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Close Reads

Chaos Under the Corset: When Romance Covers Hide Revolution

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Close Reads

We Could Be “Eggheads”: Sliders and the Celebrity of Smart

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Coraline wears a star-patterned sweater in a scene from Coraline
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Close Reads

Considering the Perfect Knits of Coraline

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Scarlett Johansson as an alien in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin
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Close Reads

The Artistic Bravery of Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin

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Close Reads

Let’s All Celebrate the Weirdness of Exorcist III’s Dream Sequence

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Close Reads

A Bloody Fool? On Mark E. Smith’s Smile

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Close Reads

The Wonders of Worf’s Character Arc

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Tingle Takeover

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Tingle Takeover

“Horror Is Not a Celebration of Death, It Is a Celebration of Life”: Chuck Tingle Talks Camp Damascus

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Tingle Takeover

TINGLED BY FIVE OF CHUCK’S FAVORITE HORROR GRAPHIC NOVELS

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Tingle Takeover

Not Pounded By The Physical Manifestation Of Chuck Tingle’s Traditional Publishing Deal Because He Writes About More Than Just Pounding However If This Book Was About Pounding That Would Be Okay Too Because There’s Nothing Wrong With Sexuality In Art

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Tingle Takeover

YOUR CAMP DAMASCUS MIXTAPES

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Camp Damascus

Read an Excerpt From Camp Damascus, the Horror Debut From Chuck Tingle

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Tingle Takeover

Art in Defiance of the Endless Cosmic Nothing

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Author Chuck Tingle has taken over Tor.com
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Tingle Takeover

I, TWO TIME HUGO AWARD FINALIST CHUCK TINGLE, HAVE TAKEN OVER TOR.COM

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