This Indigenous horror novel shows the terror of reallife environmental devastation
Oct 22, 2026
There’s a climactic scene in Mathilda Zeller’s debut novel, It Looks Like You in the Dark, that’s reminiscent of the treacherous dogsled chase by which Mary Shelley introduces her title character in Frankenstein. In Shelley’s horror classic, the brutal, exoticized setting of the Arctic Ocea
n mocks the hubris of European men who seek to establish […]
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