Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witches and Modern Women
By Emma Louise Backe Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within contemporary pop…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Terraforming the Imagination: How to Build a Convincing Fictional Universe
By Emma Louise Backe Fantasy and science fiction writers do it all the time—build a world, sometimes an entire universe,…
THE (FAKE) GEEK GIRL PROJECT / 5: A LIST AND A SURVEY
This is the last installment of this series. You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With…
The Devil in Disguise: Modern Monsters and their Metaphors
By Emma Louise Backe Throughout the past decade or so, we’ve had a resurgence of monsters. Werewolves, vampires and zombies…
The Geek Anthropologist 