Aleatha Terrell

“At the same time, I was reading up on film theory to contextualize my viewing experiences. Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover found its way into my hands at the perfect time, giving me a feminist appraisal of slasher cinema that helped combat the Catholic guilt.”
― Brian McAuley, Breathe In, Bleed Out

“In the far reaches of an infinite cosmos, there’s a galaxy that looks just like the Milky Way, with a solar system that’s the spitting image of ours, with a planet that’s a dead ringer for earth, with a house that’s indistinguishable from yours, inhabited by someone who looks just like you, who is right now reading this very book and imagining you, in a distant galaxy, just reaching the end of this sentence. And there’s not just one such copy. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many. In some, your doppelgänger is now reading this sentence along with you. In others, he or she has skipped ahead, or feels in need of a snack and has put the book down. In others, he or she has, well, a less than felicitous disposition and is someone you’d rather not meet in a dark alley.” Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Slasher figures cast iconic silhouettes,”
― Brian McAuley, Breathe In, Bleed Out

“violence. But another important literary precursor to the slasher was Agatha Christie. The mystery genre may claim ownership over this influential titan, but even the title of her 1939 book, And Then There Were None, speaks to its classic slasher formula.”
― Brian McAuley, Breathe In, Bleed Out