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I loved summer camp as a child — long days spent in the sun and tan lines from Keens worn too many days in a row — but I always dreaded the nights. It would start with a simple proposition from one of the girls in my bunk: “does anyone want to hear a scary story?” and then devolve into a full-blown tale telling session leaving me unable to sleep. The fear I felt hearing those stories mixed with my general discomfort at being assigned to live in the “girls’ cabin” was a nauseating cocktail. At long last, David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli’s horror anthology, Queer Little Nightmares, let me in on all the fun. This collection perfectly captures the feeling of spooky stories told with only a dim flashlight for illumination — but now Bloody Mary is replaced by lesbian werewolves and wistful creatures from the black lagoon.It’s common advice when crafting a monster story to not show your monster until the last second. Leave your audienc
Northwestern’s Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Book Club returned after a year-long hiatus just in time for APIDA heritage month. The club met every quarter in past years, according to Assistant Director of the Multicultural Student Affairs Rignesha Prajapati. But this year, the club selected just one book and will host discussions Thursday and this.
If Dorothy Parker's poetry was adapted as a cinematic thriller, we would have a hybrid screenplay already foreshadowed in the work of Alexandra Oliver. Her rhyme schemes flutter formally and fiercely in and out of themselves with, as some readers have noted, “terrifyingly clever, dazzlingly skilled, and chillingly accurate” (Molly…