February 22, 2020
Greetings, denizens of geek! Welcome back to your favorite recap: Speculative Chic’s Weekly Roundup! Another week has come and gone, and we’ve been busy as always bringing you the latest and greatest from the worlds of sci fi, fantasy, and horror. Enough with the preambles — let’s dive in!
February 20, 2020
Though I’m obviously saying it anyway, it almost goes without saying that much like its source material, any appraisal of Mike Flanagan’s 2019 film adaptation of the Stephen King novel Doctor Sleep can only ever be truly assessed under the looming shadow of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of its predecessor, King’s The Shining. This is because Kubrick’s version has become…
November 18, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with E.L. Chen, whose latest (which is two books in one!…
October 23, 2018
Last year I wrote about vampire stories, and talked about how I find Halloween waaay more exciting than Christmas. As a kid I looked forward to December; in recent years Halloween has become my favorite holiday. Every October 1 it’s time to break out the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas. (And yeah, I also like the Marilyn Manson version…
April 12, 2018
I have been a Stephen King fan since I was an angsty 14-year-old who didn’t want to go on a vacation with my mom, brother, sister, and new stepdad. The room I was in of the cabin we’d rented had a bookshelf. On that bookshelf was a ridiculously thick book. On the spine, the words: The Stand. I spent every…
October 24, 2017
To me, Halloween is way more exciting than Christmas. The entire month of October is just a holiday that just happens to end in an actual holiday. (It’s not just for kids!) My friends and I are free to read horror stories, scare ourselves by watching horror movies, dress up as our favorite characters, and/or flout homeowner associations by decorating our…