Text by Anna Katarrh, Institute of Utopian Studies Illustrations by Thom Cuschieri Utopia, Nowhere Utopia is a place that is also a no-place (ou-topos: no-place, nowhere). Utopian thought is concerned with material structures, with concrete notions of a better socio-political world, situated in the here and now, ‘placed’ in our world. At the same time,
Illustrations and text by Alberto Favaro In the town hall of Siena, inside the Council Room, there is a cycle of frescoes painted in 1339 by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. They form two allegories, each composed of two representations: the good and the bad government with their relative effects. While in the allegory of good government a
We’re happy to close what has been a colourful and productive year for Schlock with an appropriately exciting collection of short fiction and artwork. We have a freshly translated Maltese variant on the vampire story (‘Camilla’), more subtly supernatural musings (‘A Problem of Angels’) as well as fast-paced genre thrillers (‘Running with Starchild’, ‘Coming of
by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone Image by Daniela Attard I have just watched the short film El Gigante (dir. Gigi Saul Guerrero, 2015) by Luchagore Productions, a production team committed to the horror genre. El Gigante is a gory splatterfest, which cleverly combines the familiar ‘backwoods cannibal’ subgenre with that tradition distinct to Mexican film
by Kris Green Photogram by Claire Micallef I woke up screaming. Incoherent, inconsolable. Something hit me in the stomach, hard, and I bit my tongue. The bedside lamp came on. “Again?” My wife, half sitting, scooted up next to me on her pile of pillows. It had been her elbow that knocked the breath out
Ivana Bugarinovic was born in Belgrade in 1982, where she graduated from the Faculty of Applied Art, University of Art in Belgrade, in the department for textile design. She is currently working as a graphic designer at the Student’s City Cultural Center in Belgrade during the day, while freelancing as an illustrator by night. She is
The Pleasure Merchant by Molly Tanzer, Lazy Fascist Press, 2015 Review by Teodor Reljic With Halloween now upon us, you’d probably expect me to crank out a review of some of the hottest horror titles currently on the shelves – in which case I would go on to recommend Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts
Since Halloween allows us to both revisit and discover what’s what in the horror genre, we thought it apt to seek out Michael Wilson, head of This is Horror, for a chat about the website and podcast’s origins and mission. But in this extensive interview, Wilson also lets us in on what drew him to
As part of our series of Halloween-themed chats this month, we caught up with Mike Davis – editor of the dynamic and much-loved weird fiction hub Lovecraft eZine, as well as its more recent publication arm. Is Lovecraft, however, the be all and end all of the zine, and what kind of influence does
Welcome listeners to another edition of the Schlock podcast… Wait, what do you mean that, following the previous edition, you thought Teodor and Marco were devoured by werewolves that were also Lovecraftian horrors? The three month delay was actually caused by their wanting to have a break! Of course. Either way the podcast is back, and this time