The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/melison/page/3)
Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn. megelison.com
“When I was a teenage zealot, I used to imagine what television might be like in a world that was primarily Pagan,” writes Meg Elison. “I’ll never see that world, but this year a small window opened on it. Over the last week, I got acquainted with two Netflix shows about the Pagan world as it might have been: KAOS and Twilight of the Gods.”
Starve Acre is domestic horror only in the sense that Britain itself is the domicile. Dig just a few inches into the soil and a riot of irrational myth and impossible happenings is always just below this family’s feet.
Twenty-five years later, my favorite thing about The Blair Witch Project is that the Witch does bite. The magic is secret and nobody talks too much. The horror is implacable, and the offering is written in a language the viewer is not meant to read.
“Pagan nonsense, celebrating the feast of Lughnasadh. This is the month of August. The feast of our lady’s assumption into heaven.” Meg Elison returns with a review of the 1998 Irish-American film “Dancing at Lughnasa,” which juxtaposes Catholic misery and Pagan joy.
The years between puberty and adulthood can be exciting and difficult,” wrote Silver RavenWolf in 1998. No one would have agreed with her more vociferously than Louise Miller, protagonist of 1989’s most tubular film: Dorian Walker’s Teen Witch.
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