Dr Lorna Wallace
@lornawallace.bsky.social
Freelance Writer | PhD in English Literature from the University of Stirling | clippings.me/lornawallace
...Do you like scary movies? How about horror novels about *making* scary movies--and all the truly horrifying things that can happen behind the scenes, from hauntings and curses to murder and mayhem? Here are five chilling examples 🎥👻
Five Horror Novels About Making (Fictional) Horror Movies - Reactor
When the true terrors unfold offscreen and behind the scenes...
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From wasps to fire ants to mutant cockroaches, insects make for excellent horror stories. Here are five books about highly dangerous bugs and bug-like creatures from works by George R.R. Martin, Nick Cutter, T. Kingfisher, and more...
Bugging Out: Five Books About Deadly Insects - Reactor
Time to light a citronella candle and face all your bug-based fears...
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While the Tooth Fairy herself may be surprisingly modern, the bits of folklore that went into her creation are hundreds of years old. https://bit.ly/4gam070
The Strange Origins of the Tooth Fairy
While the Tooth Fairy herself may be surprisingly modern, the bits of folklore that went into her creation are hundreds of years old.
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Tired of your local trails? Plan a hiking trip to one of these incredible ancient sites. https://bit.ly/3Inhm9r
15 Amazing Archaeological Sites You Can Hike To
Tired of your local trails? Plan a hiking trip to one of these incredible ancient sites.
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From ghostly doubles to evil twins, what's more uncanny than encountering an enemy that looks or acts just like you? Here are five SFF and horror stories about going toe-to-toe with doppelgängers, clones, and other creepy versions of yourself!
Five Books About Battling Doubles, Doppelgängers, and Clones - Reactor
From evil twins to alter egos that take on a life of their own, you're always your own worst enemy...
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There are so many iconic horror stories centered around children, from kids dealing with hauntings and demonic possession to precocious young zombies--here are five unnerving examples, and we hope you'll share your own favorites!
Five Horror Books Featuring Child Protagonists - Reactor
What are your favorite stories about kids caught up in zombie outbreaks, hauntings, demonic possession, and the like?
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Highly recommend adding a stone skull to an otherwise whimsical garden set up for some memento mori vibes. 💀
As temperatures continue to rise, here are five horror stories set in hot, steamy jungles and rainforests that are guaranteed to send a refreshing chill up your spine, from tales of greed and retribution to gory stories about bloodthirsty plants 🪴
Blood, Sweat, and Trees: Five Horror Stories Set in Jungles and Rainforests - Reactor
Clueless tourists, treasure seekers, ruthless mercenaries... this is not going to end well for you.
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How we illustrate the world affects how we experience it. https://bit.ly/41Hgzqc
20 Maps That Changed the World
How we illustrate the world affects how we experience it.
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There are tons of great found footage horror films, but how well does the technique work in other genres? Lorna Wallace recommends five found footage movies about alien invasions, supernatural creatures, time travel, superpowers, and space exploration!
Five Sci-Fi and Fantasy Found Footage Movies - Reactor
The found footage technique is perfect for horror, but also stories about space, time travel, and superpowers...
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Terrified of flying? You may want to avoid these airports.
10 of the Scariest Airport Landings in the World
Terrified of flying? You may want to avoid these airports.
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Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.
How Do Academics Handle Conspiracy Theorists?
Factual evidence rarely changes minds.
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These Atomic Age sites—some of which are still dangerously radioactive—are a somber reminder of the dark shadow the threat of nuclear war cast on the world.
12 of the Creepiest Nuclear Sites on Earth
These Atomic Age sites—some of which are still dangerously radioactive—are a somber reminder of the dark shadow the threat of nuclear war cast on the world.
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Early on, the trope of the final girl focused on characters who fit a certain profile. Over time, authors started to play with the formula. Here are five books and stories that feature Final Girls who break with convention... #booksky
Five Horror Stories That Offer a Twist on the Final Girl Formula - Reactor
These books and stories feature final girls who don't conform to the conventional mold.
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When it comes to age, supernatural horror doesn't discriminate; here are five horror novels featuring compelling protagonists who are over 70, from an aging Elvis Presley to a septuagenarian Final Girl facing off against evil 🔪
Five Horror Books Featuring Older Protagonists - Reactor
From an aging Elvis Presley to a Final Girl in her late 70s, these characters spend their golden years fighting evil
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If you're a samurai fan who loves SF, fantasy, and horror, hold on to your katana: here are seven speculative books, TV shows, and movies that follow sword-wielding samurai facing off against aliens, time travel, magic, and distant planets!
Seven SFF Samurai Stories - Reactor
Sword-wielding samurai vs. monsters, time travel, magic, and more!
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Fighting vampires? Grab a stake. Pursued by werewolves? Better melt down some silver. But what can you do when the thing hunting you is a seemingly unstoppable creature, curse, or malevolent force? Here are 5 books and stories about inescapable threats!
Five Horror Stories About Unstoppable, Inescapable Forces - Reactor
How can you hope to defeat a curse or monster that's utterly relentless?
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What caused some of these ominous events still remains a total mystery.
8 Strange Dark Days Throughout History
What caused some of these ominous events still remains a total mystery.
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People have speculated the nursery rhyme references everything from Viking invasions to human sacrifice. https://bit.ly/4mrCwkN
The Dark Theories Behind the “London Bridge Is Falling Down” Nursery Rhyme
There are a handful of sinister suggestions—ranging from a Viking invasion to human sacrifice—about the rhyme’s inspiration.
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Speculative fiction is always finding new and exciting ways of messing with the fabric of existence--from time travel and high-tech weaponry to memory-eating entities, here are five books that take unique approaches to warping reality!
Five Twisty, Reality-Bending SFF Books - Reactor
Featuring some truly ingenious ways of messing with the fabric of reality...
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There's nothing quite like sitting in a movie theater *watching* a scene in which a movie theater is attacked by aliens, blown up, or otherwise laid to waste! We're ranking the 7 best SF and horror scenes featuring cinemas being destroyed 🎥🔥
Movie Theater Mayhem: 7 Films Featuring Cinemas Being Destroyed - Reactor
The theater is under attack!!! Run for your lives!!!
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What if zombies aren't mindless killing machines? What happens when they show glimpses of personality, or free will? Here are five books, movies, and TV shows that complicate and humanize zombies 🧟 What are your favorite examples? reactormag.com/five-horror-...
Five Horror Stories That Humanize Zombies - Reactor
If zombies aren't simply mindless killing machines, what are they?
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Tired of your local trails? Plan a hiking trip to one of these incredible ancient sites. https://bit.ly/3Inhm9r
15 Amazing Archaeological Sites You Can Hike To
Tired of your local trails? Plan a hiking trip to one of these incredible ancient sites.
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Terrified of flying? You may want to avoid these airports.
10 of the Scariest Airport Landings in the World
Terrified of flying? You may want to avoid these airports.
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Are you feeling exhausted or exasperated by the ubiquity of A.I. nonsense in the world? When you need a break from raging against the machines, here are five stories about the dark and dangerous aspects of artificial intelligence...
Five Sci-Fi Stories About the Dark Side of A.I. - Reactor
A.I. may be everywhere, but we don't have to like it...
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Stories about going back in time to eliminate Adolph Hitler have been around since the 1940s; here are five takes on the premise, exploring different aspects of the ethical and temporal questions involved with such a mission... reactormag.com/five-time-tr...
Five Time Travel Stories About Taking Out Hitler - Reactor
Exploring very different takes on a familiar thought experiment.
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Since the days of Jules Verne, science fiction has been exploring the depths of Earth's oceans and imaging underwater life on distant planets; here are five aquatic sci fi books and stories! What are your own favorite examples?
Five Science Fiction Stories Set Underwater - Reactor
From Earth's oceans to the watery depths of distant planets.
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These Atomic Age sites—some of which are still dangerously radioactive—are a somber reminder of the dark shadow the threat of nuclear war cast on the world.
12 of the Creepiest Nuclear Sites on Earth
These Atomic Age sites—some of which are still dangerously radioactive—are a somber reminder of the dark shadow the threat of nuclear war cast on the world.
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Are you looking for a story that will keep you up all night pondering the nature of existence and our place in the universe? You're in luck--here are five excellent sci-fi short stories that deal with deep existential questions...
Five Speculative Stories To Cure or Inspire an Existential Crisis - Reactor
Who wants to stay up late contemplating the nature of existence and other mysteries?
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