Musicalia #170: Liminal Birds
Birds, liminal, still as satellite dishes… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #170: Liminal Birds
Author: Stephen McClurg
I like red peppers and Jan Švankmajer movies.
1. Current Listening: Psychic TV
2. Current Viewing: Vittorio De Seta's Documentary Short Films
3. Current Reading: Michael Tau: Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between
Musicalia #169: Break’s Over
Eating Oranges The skin rips off, flecks into the sunlight like dust motes, a scented exhaust from the tearing flesh… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #169: Break’s Over
At Horror DNA: S(p)lasher Flicks Review
When Cullen Wade’s S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema came to my attention as a possible review, I expected a clever novelty. A book devoted entirely to swimming pools in horror films sounds entertaining enough, but I wondered how much critical weight such a specific topic could support. Quite a bit, as it … Continue reading At Horror DNA: S(p)lasher Flicks Review
At Horror DNA: Haunters of the Silence Review
Haunters of the Silence is a microbudget experimental horror film from Finnish writer-directors Tatu Heikkinen and Veleda Heikkinen, now living in the United States. The reported budget was around $2,000, a figure that makes most microbudget productions look lavish. Like many recent horror films, Haunters of the Silence explores grief. It has more in common, … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Haunters of the Silence Review
Musicalia #168: Cradle to Candle
Visitation Eyes rolling in all of this boiling air. From cradle to candle,from candle to curse… You can get the poem and playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #168: Cradle to Candle
At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Buffet Libre
Buffet Libre opens with a version of the Evil Dead demon cam. An entity hovers, but not through the foggy woods, instead through a dimly lit international market. On a second pass, a woman sweeping takes a swipe at the camera, and the perspective cuts into focus. We’ve been riding along with a pigeon, not a malevolent supernatural … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Buffet Libre
At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: The Kirlian Frequency
The Kirlian Frequency adapts an Argentine web series into a horror anthology centered on a mysterious town. Through a late-night radio show, residents share tales of murder, madness, and aliens. These stories exist as cassette recordings from the night a comet appeared and apparently erased the town, now only a haunting presence in the surviving audio. … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: The Kirlian Frequency
At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Adorable Humans
Even the best horror anthologies invite rankings of individual stories and a tolerance for unevenness. What makes the Danish collection Adorable Humans stand out is not that every segment lands equally, but that the collection shares a surprisingly cohesive emotional and thematic heart. Maybe because they share source material. All of the segments are adaptations of Hans … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Fantaspoa Festival 2026: Adorable Humans
Musicalia #167: Every Tumblebus
She Plucked My Eyelashesand read my fortune. Seven raindrops.Seven gold coins.Seven liver spots…. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #167: Every Tumblebus
Stephen McClurg 