Lit. Horror Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Hayden Morin  My first reaction to this story is that it takes human colonization on different planets and puts a new twist on it, saying that the only reason we are allowed to live there is because we make for excellent egg bearers. And it puts a normally female role (bearing children) and puts it from a male perspective. I personally couldn't really connect with this story aside from the main character being a male. i have never been in a situation or scenario like the one displayed in the story. One connection I made with this story is that it seems similar to the struggle of many African-American slave woman who we forced to accept the "eggs" from there slavers, in this instance the Tlic.  If I were to make this story a film I would probably use the same form of filming as 12 Years a Slave used to portray a superior and inferior dynamic between the Tlic and the Terrans, while using a District 9 style of segregation since the Terrans live on almost Native America...

Witches, until the introduction of warlocks, have always been a uniquely female role in fantasy and myth. It shows women who have power yet often in a negative way since witches historically have been evil satan worshippers who murder people and steal livestock for their dark rituals. Although lately, this is taking a turn in recent years since witches are starting to be seen as more fighters of demons and not satan worshippers. This incidentally follows the social trend of women in power in todays society. Women in powerful positions are becoming and have become the norm in many cultures around the world. So the concept of the witch or any other woman in power is become less and less of a scary thought.

The Hobbit is arguably the most recognizable piece of fantasy literature in the world, probably only bested by Tolkiens other work The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit  takes place in Middle-Earth and features a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins as the main character. Bilbo is taken on an adventure, the likes a hobbit has never seen, by the wizard Gandolf. He is not going alone however, he is accompanied by several dwarves lead by Thoren to kill a dragon and reclaim the mountain home. The call to adventure comes when the dwarves and Gandolf hand Bilbo a contract of employment and he decides to go on an adventure. I would say he reaches the threshold when the trolls are turned to stone and he obtains the sword Sting. I would argue this because this is when he first has a real taste of adventure and death. The challenges and transformation he faces is when he is face to face with the creature Gollum and finds the ring. The atonement for all is the battle of five armies and the defeat of the d...

The word weird can be easily looked up in any dictionary yet when it is used as a story element it can be used in a whole different way rather than just as a description as something that is odd or strange. The weird in horror literature is a term that refers to something that is supernatural yet supernatural is is only part of what makes the new weird so bizarre. The weird isn't anything we as humans can really perceive in all honesty, its like trying to explain quantum mechanics to a very small child really, by that i mean its not meant to be understood. Its not something our minds can really truly perceive and yet we can take it in all the same as we do the normal. We can dissect it we can summarize it and we can read it and take it in all the same as the normal but with the weird more often than not people will have a different reaction to it and come up with their own conclusions as to what just happened or what a certain thing is. In Borne, its a very strange and weird book i...

There are many differences between the eastern and western cultures in terms of literature and art. The horror genre is definitely no exception. In many Japanese horror stories, this example being A Wild Sheep Chase, they often blend in magical realism and some mystery giving the reader a sense of anticipation and anxiety. In more western horror stories we are often introduced not to a specifically magical realism, but the idea of an afterlife and more often the idea of the undead. Western horror, although thrillers are a sub-genre of horror, do not always give the reader the same anxiety that an eastern horror story would. I personally believe that the reason for this is because you get a sensation of a calm dread in the characters of eastern horror and in most western horror stories the characters are usually always active and alert. This doesn't create the same type of anxiety as in eastern horror since the reader is already at the same energy level the characters in the story a...

In the story  Interview with a Vampire , we see the relationship between two adult vampires and one child whom they bit. There are three relationships portrayed in those three characters, one between Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat, Lestat and Claudia, and Louis and Claudia. The relationship between Louis and Lestat is complex in that Lestat is the reason why Louis is a vampire so Louis feels some animosity towards him and at the same time he was dependent on him as he did not know how to be a vampire in the beginning of the book. And yet the reason why Louis was bitten was because Lestat wanted his company. This was also the reason he had to turn the little girl, Claudia, into a vampire. It was to prevent Louis from leaving his company since now they had a sort of "daughter" together. Lestat's relationship with Claudia is that of a mentor more than a father figure which is the opposite of the relationship between Claudia and Louis as he tries to be more of a father fig...

When dealing with horror and gothic stories there are always at least two things that instantly pop into people's head, those are usually Dracula and Frankenstein, more specifically Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein, the book written by Mary Shelley, is one of the most recognized gothic book to date. Yet, what exactly defines this book as gothic. The genre of gothic stories usually have to deal with the supernatural or the realm of science fiction. It often has to deal with death, horror, and even sometimes romance. So how does Frankenstein fit into this genre? To start, the entire premiss of the story is science fiction and horror; the act of playing God and resurrecting the dead and at the same time creating a monster that was never meant to exist. Death is one of the core elements in the tale since it is about how Dr. Frankenstein tries to reverse it and create life. But he creates a monster in the end and death follows the monster and the doctor alike as throughout the b...