supernatural

  • Dandadan: Allegory or just immature fun

    Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu can be read as an allegory about male pubescent ascendance and anxiety. Or it can just be fun. It can be a silly immature schoolyard joke that the author has imagined into an exciting fast-paced supernatural horror comedy. According to Anime Hunch, Yukinobu Tatsu wrote Dandadan as a desperate final effort

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  • Rules To Keep A Story Real

    POSSIBLE SPOILERS! I worried that my ignorance of Arthurian lore would make it difficult to read Kieron Gillen’s Once and Future* series. Happily, this wasn’t the case. While I’m sure familiarity would make the story even more enjoyable because I’d pick up on nuances specific to the mythology, through Duncan, Gillen’s museum curator hero, I

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  • Billy Dean Sounds Out War

    WARNING SPOILERS!!! As I read David Almond’s The True Tales of the Monster Billy Dean Telt By Hisself I kept thinking of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. Both stories center around preadolescent boys who have become part of an ad hoc families. Gaiman’s Bod is adopted by the graveyard’s ghosts and Almond’s Billy, while still

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  • Where Angel Should Have Gone

    WARNING! SPOILERS! Child of television. When I was told AJ Scudiere’s Under Dark Skies was a “supernatural crime thriller” and then read that it involved “the FBI’s secretive division, NightShade” I immediately thought X-Files. When it is revealed that some of the main characters in the book had supernatural abilities, Angel Investigations popped into my

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  • The Duality and Deconstruction of James Junya Thompson

    A friend once told me that Hesse’s Steppenwolf was a different book when read at 40 from when it was read at 20. This is the distinction of a great book. Last summer Ruth Graham caused a stir among readers of books dubbed Young Adult (YA) when she declared, “Read whatever you want. But you

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  • On Goodreads: The Shunned House

    The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft My rating: 3 of 5 stars I was infatuated with HP Lovecraft for a brief period in my life but mostly because of the drawings he inspired by HR Giger. I had a collection of Lovecraft’s stories that I bought at Tower Books (many, many years ago) but can’t

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Vincent Young