Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4647 )

• Hallowed Halls

  

  Every time I read a short story collection I tell myself I should do so more often. Knowing that you’re only committing yourself for maybe thirty or forty... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• House Spiders

  

  I give them names, the spiders who choose to live in our house.  That’s how I named Henry, shown in the photo.  I grew up with an almost debilitating... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Colorful Space

  

  Lovecraftian horror translates to film unevenly. Even when it’s successful, as in Color Out of Space, it really isn’t that close to reading Lovecraft. “The... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unwritten

  

  It has been clear to me for some time now that I won’t live long enough to finish all the books I’m writing in my head.  A good number of them have a head... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friendly Fear

  

  I opened my book Holy Horror with an epigraph taken from Apocalypse Now, a movie I recently watched again. That quote was from Col. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• University Death

  

  This is an important and thoroughly depressing book. Despite globalization, I fear that a book from down under might fail to be readily found in the United... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• See Monsters

  

  I have a soft spot for seventies movies, but I can’t decide if The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is horror or not. I found it on a horror list, and... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gothic Novelties

  

  I’m a sucker for a good gothic novel. Dilapidated houses on the moors, suggestions of ghosts, the kind of encompassing darkness that enfolds you. Women facing... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eye Eye

  

  When trying to be conscientious about not spending too much money on movies there’s always the risk of seeing something cheap. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Little Things

  

  Those on anti-clutter campaigns (whose lives I can’t imagine) claim that we have too much stuff.  That may be true, but when you reach a certain age these reali... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Hearts

  

  If you’re looking for more religion-based horror, you might try the 1987 film Angel Heart. As I’m discovering quite a bit lately, I could’ve used this one in... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eschew Stupidity

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a certified evangelical Christian.  His theology often feels a bit pat to some of us who work in religious studies, but there’s no... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering Winter

  

  There’s a deep satisfaction at attaining a goal, no matter how low the bar. Having rediscovered the “Beast Collection” after looking to see if Snowbeast was on... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Decide

  

  Decisions we make when we’re young influence our entire lives.  It’s not that you can’t change course—I’ve seen it happen and it can be a thing of true... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Step Far

  

  It made a bit of a splash when it came out, Longlegs did. It took a while to get to a streaming service I can access, but I can say that it’s a movie with... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Peace

  

  Mother’s Day should be a time for peace.  In these days when misogyny is in style, it’s an especially important holiday.  The one holiday to explicitly honor... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scholars and Villains

  

  Having read M. L. Rio’s novella Graveyard Shift, I turned to her debut novel, If We Were Villains. It must be a heady feeling having your first novel become a... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Father of Yeti

  

  “Always steals women.” So Subra mutters high in the Himalayas. Perhaps one of the most unintentionally funny bad movies, The Snow Creature does hold a place in... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mired

  

  For someone who grew up with an Oscar Mayer jingle forever lodged his his brain, it took decades before I became curious about the surname. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Watching Watching

  

  Dynasties exist in many professions. Some of us grow up where there’s no succession, but for those who do the results can be good or bad. I’m thinking in the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY