Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Dead Can Dance Return One Song at a Time with ‘Death Cults’
Brendan Perry steers Dead Can Dance into 2026 via a Bandcamp-exclusive monthly series, with ‘Death Cults’ as its most expansive…
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Damian McCarthy’s ‘Hokum’ Opens in US Theaters via Neon
Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy brings a witchcraft-rooted folk horror narrative to US theaters with ‘Hokum,’ starring Adam Scott, on May…
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Gothic Performance and the Historic Cemetery’s Return to the Living
From Brooklyn’s catacomb stages to London’s Victorian courtyards, documented practitioners are returning the cemetery to its original function as a…
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‘She Made Herself a Monster’ Trades Ambiguity for Allegory
Anna Kovatcheva’s debut sets a con artist loose in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, but the novel’s refusal of supernatural ambiguity costs it…
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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ and the Myth It Left Buried
The mummy franchise has survived Boris Karloff, Brendan Fraser, and Tom Cruise. It has not, in Lee Cronin’s hands, survived…
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What Dark Travelers Miss When Dracula Is All They Know of Transylvania
Five centuries of frontier war and mass death produced in Transylvania not a vampire legend but a folk theology —…
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Leipzig Prepares for Wave-Gotik-Treffen’s 33rd Edition
Over 130 acts across 50 venues signal a curatorial deepening at the world’s largest gathering of gothic and industrial subcultures…
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‘Mārama’ Reclaims Gothic Horror from the Colonizer’s Estate
Taratoa Stappard’s debut turns the manor house tradition against itself in a Māori revenge narrative that refuses gothic ambiguity.
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Argovia Launches ‘Primal Repetition’ Through Intimacy at Hall 74
The Bogotá progressive quartet presented their second album at Hall 74 the day after its official release, joined by Medellín’s…
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Cali Made Tropical Gothic Before the World Was Ready
The Cali Group developed Gótico Tropical from Colombian colonial rot in the 1970s. Its global moment is recognition fifty years…
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Why Developers Keep Reaching for Builders Over Block Themes
Developers favor builders for undisclosed affiliate revenue. Block themes now match builder design systems through theme.json version 3 and core…
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‘Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss’ Demands the Mythos Prove Itself
Big Bad Wolf’s first-person Lovecraftian thriller opens its demo on Steam five days before an April 16, 2026 release on…
