OPINES

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Stories about monsters, time travel, cosmic horror, and government conspiracies don’t appear out of nowhere.

They evolve.

They reflect the fears, obsessions, and strange ideas rattling around in our collective heads at any given moment.

This section is where I take a closer look at speculative fiction, why certain stories work, why some ideas keep coming back generation after generation, and why audiences never seem to get tired of things like alien invasions, haunted towns, and the occasional ill-advised experiment that opens a portal to somewhere...unpleasant.

Think of these articles as a kind of field notes from a researcher into the strange mechanics behind genre fiction and the wonderfully weird places where they overlap.