What Sleeps Beneath is an online magazine that explores the horror genre as one of the most important cultural vehicles of our time. It is a home for all horror-loving nerds, and a space to investigate what the genre tells us about ourselves. We write book and movie reviews, conduct interviews, and write original academic research.
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Book Review: Circle of the Snake
Author Grafton Tanner, in his latest book Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech, criticizes the intersection of the nostalgia industry and Big Tech and underscores the imminent need for dreaming a better future that is not at the behest of the surveillance state.
Nostalgia and Horror: An Interview with Grafton Tanner
Horror is haunted by nostalgia, and in his latest book, author Grafton Tanner examines the intersection of Big Tech and the commodification of nostalgia, and how that, too, appears in horror movies.