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Bright Young Women

A Fictionalized Story of the Ted Bundy Murders Author: Jessica Knoll Bright Young Women is an ambitious attempt to tell a segmented story of trauma, misogyny, exploitation, resilience, and women fighting against a biased and broken system. While the true crime story it’s based on (the Ted Bundy murders) is interesting, Bright Young Women fails to capture the tragedy of those involved. Instead, it comes off as a caricature of what happened, an outline of complexity that fails to capture a deeper, bloodier story. It strives to do something honorable, to highlight the victims instead of the insidious, egotistical perpetrator, but [...]

2025-01-27T10:39:19-07:00January 27th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire

"I Am the Land." Author: P.N. Elrod In Vampire of the Mists, we gained a brief glimpse into the brutal history of Barovia’s vampire overlord, a history coated in carnage and torn by betrayal and perverted love. Following this history, P.N. Elrod gives the master of the land a chance to speak for himself, to tell the story of his fall from grace and the creation of the dark plane where demonic-demigods rule, distributing abyssal punishments to doomed peoples, and where the mists keep the trapped forever entombed. It all starts with Strahd, an aging warrior who is increasingly dissatisfied with [...]

2025-01-20T18:43:42-07:00January 20th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Dracula

“We've all become God's madmen, all of us.” Author: Bran Stoker There are some stories that need no introduction – some stories that live and walk in our darkest fantasies and waking nightmares, that populate our legends and inform our culture, that have woven themselves into the tapestry of our speech and the way we understand our own histories. Dracula is surely one of these stories. Indeed, Dracula epitomizes an immortal romance that grows beyond a tale and becomes a living myth. Look no further than the nearly supernatural land of Transylvania – dour, populated with craggy, windswept mountains and superstitions [...]

2025-01-12T12:39:06-07:00January 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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