Sam J Miller Books in Order

Essays examine how horror cinema responded to September 11 and its aftermath. Films involving torture, monsters, remakes, and visual technology reveal changing cultural anxieties and the ways entertainment translates experiences of terrorism and fear into screen violence.

Teenager Matt believes that refusing food gives him extraordinary abilities, which he hopes to use to understand his sister's disappearance. His suspicions focus on a schoolmate whose role in her departure remains tangled with Matt's attraction.

In a future where matter can be reprogrammed, former addict Otto struggles against temptation and possible disaster. His dependence on his lover Trevor complicates an already uneasy balance between gratitude, affection, and the pull of addiction.

A mysterious woman arrives in the Arctic floating city of Qaanaaq accompanied by an orca and a polar bear. Her presence draws four residents together as inequality, corruption, and a strange illness threaten their fragile home.

Ash cannot remember the traumatic event she and Solomon experienced as children, while Solomon retreats into a world of monsters. As her friend becomes increasingly isolated, Ash tries to recover the memories that might explain his pain.

Photographer Ronan Szepessy returns to Hudson to visit his sick father and finds his hometown transformed by gentrification. A campaign against the newcomers entangles him and his old friends with forces far beyond ordinary political resentment.

As fears of nuclear war dominate the Cold War, small-town outsiders Laurie and Fell connect through music. Strange radio transmissions deepen their bond and suggest that a different future might still be possible for them.

Queer desire, grief, and revenge run through these speculative stories, whose characters include a foster teenager with unusual powers and survivors of alien invasion. Human vulnerability persists beneath transformations, supernatural violence, and unsettling encounters with strangers.

In 1920s New York, a boxer and a tattoo artist with magical abilities become part of a gangster's ambitious takeover plan. Their unexpected love complicates a dangerous struggle involving the criminal underworld, enchanted ink, and competing loyalties.