#supernatural

#supernatural

The Third Realm is quite different from the first two books in Knausgard's Morning Star series, even though the characters come from the earlier novels. With breathtaking confidence, Knausgard mirrors the first book, The Morning Star, giving us other, richer perspectives on the material. The book opens and closes with Tove, the manic-depressive wife of the jaded academic Arne. And her mix of despair and insight, humour and visionary brilliance turns out to be what these novels need most.

Becky Manawatu described her debut, 2022's Aue, as a breath in. Its follow-up, Kataraina, she has called a breath out. It continues that first novel's themes of intergenerational trauma and violence within a largely Maori community based around the town of Kaikoura, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. Aue won multiple awards in New Zealand and became an international bestseller; while Kataraina fleshes out its backstory, it can also be read as a thrillingly immersive standalone.

The clear guidelines in this magical world reflect the concept of 'psychic exhaustion', where actions have real consequences, enhancing the stakes of the narrative.

Many people believe in the power of the Ouija board and warn against playing with it because of the fear that users open themselves up to some supernatural threat.

The method has been tremendously successful for science, as we've discovered what makes up the Universe, in what proportion, and what the force laws are that govern physical scales ranging from the subatomic to the cosmological.

Daniel Kraus' Angel Down portrays five World War I soldiers who discover a fallen angel, initiating a narrative rich in survival, supernatural intrigue, and ethical dilemmas.

"The stoked levels are just like, so high," Malachi Barton said, adding the energy in the class was "through the roof."

Spark believed herself wired into a supernatural process happening within all things, sensing knowledge beyond normal channels and experiencing events she wrote about.

In the wrong hands, such a story would become inert on-screen. Its sentimentality could easily come across as maudlin, its structure too confusing to follow.

Daria Lavelle's debut is an amalgamation of hypermodern satire, slushy romance and savvy cultural allusion that is as vigorously brought together as its lead character's recipes.

Did Sammie sell his soul? I've written about how I think Sammie might have sold his soul. The end-credits scene shows him with no scars. That means that it takes place before the events depicted in the movie. Does he attract Remmick because he has access to another dimension? Is the scene showcasing Black music in the middle of the film a sign that he can tap into the divine because of an encounter with an otherworldly being? The next film could show us the answer.