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“Dementia in Dimensions: Trapped Between the Horrors of Cognitive Disease and Death” is the latest published essay from Jessica Rose in Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre edited by Matt Rogerson and released by 1428 Publishing Ltd. This essay analyzes elderly aging in horror films and how physical space elevates the allegories present in the liminal space of bodily decline. The three films I use to support the notion that elderly figures are easily villainized because they are harbingers of not only death, but the loss of one’s self are The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), The Visit (2015), and Relic (2020).

Thanks to a few real-life ghouls and goblins, our Halloween shopping has been limited this year, as international shipping from so many of our beloved small businesses outside of the United States has stopped dead in its tracks. As unfortunate as that is, there are countless small businesses here that not only need our support but also craft some of the greatest Halloween and horror inspired merchandise that you definitely can't get at certain big box stores. As a serial buyer and collector of all things strange and unusual, monstrous and macabre, I’m always looking for one-of-a-kind things to wear, use, and decorate my living spaces and have a few favorite small businesses that I love to buy from, especially this time of the year, that I want to share…