Boo! You should’ve seen your face. The Nass’s first ever Halloween issue inside.
In Search of an American Original in Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp
A pair of Nass writers look for the Original across a pair of movies that have more than a dozen sequels between them
Bloodbath (The Halloween Issue): Full Design
Boo! You should’ve seen your face. The Nass’s first ever Halloween issue inside.
Chronicles of a Scary Movie Convert
A Nass writer lauds the transcendent, self-escaping qualities of horror movies
A Finance Horror Story
A Nass writer probes at some of the more proximate fears of Princeton kids these days
Said, softly
Said, softly October crushes down, squeezing the juice of summer and all the faces are new fresh new Mouths fallen heaps of gloss and lips Sit. Sleep. October crushes, and leaves curl on asphalt like fingers. The leaves hurt, and the new new fresh new faces. The air stings pleasantly, like mint, like […]
Spooky Mysteries I May or May Not Be Able to Clear up for You
Documenting some of the spookier mysteries that psychically afflict this Nass writer
Banana Man
“He wondered if his body felt cold when she touched him. If she could sense the disconnect of his skin. If she could tell that even with her hands on his chest and her legs between his, they weren’t really touching.”
P(erturbing) M(onstrous) S(ickening): On Periods
Essays, interviews, and scary movies about the horror of menstruation
To Build a Monster
TO BUILD A MONSTER Synthetic taste, algorithmic broth, and neural-net nuggets stitched together. No human input required—just sit back and let the bots cook up something… alive? INGREDIENTS 4 Full skeletal remains 2 Embalmed corpses with all organs attached 1 Bucket of slaughterhouse animal parts Alligator clip wires OBJECTIVE Despite technological advancements in […]
Sigmund Freud Would’ve Loved AnimeCon
An invocation of the psychoanalyst’s “uncanny” to take a hard look at costume-wearing beyond Halloween
Apocalypse (Maybe Not) Now?
“At some point lightning flashed big and bold across the sky. It was the first time in forever that the sky was anything other than that neverendin’ black, and I had to close my eyes to keep from being blinded.”
Letter from the Editor
It’s absolutely true that this is the first time we’ve ever run a Halloween issue, and for a magazine as historically elaborate and artifactual as the Nassau Weekly, it’s a sort of mystifying reality. We scoured the dread tomes that compose our archives–all except for one moldering lockbox situated between “Naked pictures of Michel Foucault […]