Author Claire Kohda is particularly deft at illustrating how unacknowledged desire will out, undermining our best intentions.
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Short Fuse Commentary: The Skillful Supernaturalism of Glen Duncan
Here you have it: Werewolves are horny, vamps merely thirsty. This, to be sure, is material to work with, as novelist Glen Duncan does. But I can’t help thinking about great nineteenth-century novels of involuntary transformation.
Short Fuse: Drac Attack, or Why Vampirism Won’t Go Away
Oddly, not everyone is concerned with vampires. A friend tells me he finds them overdone, ornate, weighed down with baroque bells and whistles. His vote goes to zombies. I reply that zombies are one-trick monsters. They don’t even suck, only bite. That, he says, is what he likes about them; they are stripped down, perfect […]