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1 month ago | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
Like many veteran reporters, I have a decent amount of experience in preparing obituaries while their subjects are still alive. When someone starts to go gray, there’s time to compile a nice write-up on their vital details and accomplishments so that when the bell tolls, all you have to do is cap it off with the latest and the last: a date of death. Then you let it R.I.P.With that experience in mind, I’ve started to think about elegies for America and the things I loved best about her.
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2 months ago | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
“I fear we may keep close here to a number of superstitions which may seem backward to a man of your higher learning. It is their filthy ritual.” —Count Orlok, Nosferatu (2024)Every vampire story is about magic, but Dave Egger’s Nosferatu is more open about this than its predecessors. A remake of 1922’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the silent German expressionist film by F.W. Murnau, this 2024 retelling is a copy of a copy.
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2 months ago | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Meg Elison |Kate Baker
Skip to content Podcast, Original Fiction TEXT VERSION Our sixth podcast for January is “Autonomy” written by Meg Elison and read by Kate Baker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:49 — 36.3MB)Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | MoreMeg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
Editor’s note: This film and review mention sexual violence. Folk horror is the richest vein of Pagan cinema, bleeding lurid and strange blood despite how narrow it is. When looking for more films that carry the weird and the wonder of witchcraft, most seekers will encounter the “unholy trinity” of films that established the aesthetic of folk horror in British movies: “Witchfinder General” (1968) and “The Wicker Man” (1973).
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Meg Elison
3100 words, short story “It happened again. Friday night.” Janine was chewing gum fast, jaw running like she was in training to eat bricks.
“What, a dude just stood in front of your car?” Mamta tried to keep up, but Janine walked as fast as she talked. As fast as she chewed. Not for the first time, Mamta wondered whether she was taking a stimulant.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
“A Christmas Carol” isn’t a Christmas story, it’s the Christmas story. Iconic and constantly remade, it is indissoluble from the celebration of the birth of Christ in the Anglophone world. It exemplifies much of what we expect culturally from Christmas: selflessness, generosity, and reconciliation for the sake of togetherness. However, it is impossible to argue that this is a Christian story. The competition for the Christmas story comes from one other contender: the origin of the feast itself.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
“The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this the task and mighty labor lies.”—Virgil, The AeneidThese lines from the ancient epic poem about the fall of Troy are delivered by Paul Mescal in the newly-released Gladiator II, who stars as the gladiator who is really something else in disguise. Why else would a slave from a Roman colony speak poetry, except to make a point of his noble birth?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Meg Elison
“How long do I have to have my membership with Juno before he proposes?”“Well, is he subscribed, too?”“Lifetime with Venus.”“Girl.”“What?”“You got the wife package and he’s on the new-girl-every-week program. He’s never gonna propose.”Lana sighed. “It’s been four years. We’ve been happy! Why not lock this thing down?”“Not everyone thinks love is lock-shaped.” Erica stirred her butterfly-pea blue mocktail and leaned back.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
wildhunt.org | Meg Elison
The most popular movie about American witches is one where the central coven kills a small child in the first ten minutes before being hanged in the town square in Salem, Massachusetts. These sisters rise to kill again when summoned by a virgin. They arrive alive and bewildered in the 1990s, where they worship the devil openly on screen, perform necromancy to raise the zombie form of one of their ex-lovers, and flirt with a bus driver who blithely offers to impregnate all three of them.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
blackgirlnerds.com | Meg Elison
This Disney+ show grows ever more popular as we travel through October toward Halloween. Every step along that path, each episode has focused on the song that is central to the story: The Ballad of the Witches’ Road. But the song isn’t always the same. (Spoilers for Agatha All Along episodes 1-4 ahead!)The first episode, titled after the song’s opening lyric (“seekest thou the Road”) sets us on the journey outlined by the song the coven sings to open the gate that leads to the Witches’ Road.
