The spooky season is upon us, and what does that mean? The same as most other mondays, of course: memes. I’ll be honest, the title pun is the major...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

John Whitehead “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead...

The second half of short-story double is The Machine Stops, by EM Forster. While technically more science fiction than horror, there's no denying terrifying nature of the world Forster...