The new novel by the author of American Gods and Mirrormask.
Issue: October 2005
The God of the Gaps
I deconstruct Universe 15—now a place of endless frozen night—and record the details its inhabitants’ demise. Their battle against heat death was glorious. At their zenith, a thousand billion sentient [...]
Zen and the Art of Telling Versus Showing
A common piece of advice given to new writers is to “show, don’t tell.” On the surface, it appears to be a very straightforward piece of advice. But in practice, [...]
Sea of Ash and Sorrow
Since that day in New York, that day of gray ash and sorrow, when it rained white dust, he’d been looking. There was a black hole in him. Parts of [...]
You Are When You Eat
In an animal sense, feeding ourselves is the most important thing we do every day. What we eat changes us on a chemical, and corresponding emotional, level; how long food [...]
Horror in the House: RE’s Favorite Works of Horror
Part two of our extremely biased and highly enthusiastic list of RE recommendations.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, ed. Seamus Heaney. What can we say? Battles with monsters never sounded better, [...]
Unbirth
I pull another clump of hair from my scalp. It doesn’t hurt anymore. Doing that, I mean. Pulling the hair out. I only do it so I can see it [...]