Oscar Mardell

Books

• Great Works [Death of Workers...]
• 'Rex Tremendae' [Greying Ghost]
• 'Housing Haunted Housing' [Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers]

selected writing

• 'Zardoz at 50' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Wild Thing' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Through the Labyrinth' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Can't Think Straight: Daphne Simons' 'SMASH'' [MEANWHILE]
• 'Open Source: Dino Buzzati's The Singularity' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Atolls of Ecstasy: Douglas J. Penick's Oceans of Cruelty' [Exacting Clam]
• 'Fighting Fate: Sam Mills' The Watermark' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Garbageman: C.H.U.D. at 40' [Bright Lights Film Journal]
• 'Trophy Hunting: Judy Darragh' [The Art Paper]
• 'Who can think, what can think' [Art News Aotearoa]
• 'On Hana Pera Aoake's Rumpus at the rockface' [Ceramics NZ]
• 'Daphne Simons: Peach Teats At The Dude Ranch' [Art News Aotearoa]
• 'Chowderheads' [Metro Magazine]
• 'The Ecstasy of Saints Camilla and Nicholas: Jesus is Just Alright with Me' [March Faxness]
• 'Down To Earth' [Metro Magazine]
• 'Merry Gentlemen: On Christmas Evil' [Berfrois]
• Ghost Story: Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil/Gæsterne [Bright Lights Film Journal]
• 'Hunky Punks: On Alex Garland's 'Men' (2022)' [Horror Homeroom]
• 'I, Nosferatu' [Periodicals]
• 'F.A.B.' [Lost Futures]
• 'Bringing Up Baby: On Mother Earth's Plantasia' [Spam Zine]
• 'The Meaning of Life and The Daddy of The Internet' [Berfrois]
• 'Toys' [Queen Mob's Teahouse]
• '"They're Talking About Slavery": An Older Legacy in Space Jam 2' [Bright Lights Film Journal]
• 'The Exorcist' [Wig-Wag]
• 'Shock Treatment' [Berfrois]
• 'The Church of Truth Without Christ" On Ministry's 'Jesus Built My Hotrod' [March Plaidness]
• 'Zahir: Desire and Eclipse' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Sheer Folly: The Court in The Castle' [Berfrois]
• 'Folk Horror and 'The Lighthouse' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Maybe The People Would Be The Times: An Interview with Luc Sante' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'A Greater Incompletion: An Interview with Will Eaves' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Terraced' [Death of Workers:Periodicals]
• 'A Twenty-First Century War and Peace' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Michelin House' and 'The Fiat Lingotto Factory' [Misery Tourism]
• 'Thieves in the Night' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Strange Beast: On Welsh Rarebit' [The Inquisitive Eater]
• 'Chocolate Concrete' [The Inquisitive Eater]
• 'The Horns of Jericho' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Not Neufchâtel' [The Inquisitive Eater]
• 'What the Sirens Taught Us: An Elegy for Mermaidens' [PopMatters]
• 'Cathedrals of Sewage' [Misery Tourism]
• 'CHOWDER' [The Inquisitive Eater]
• ''Alive and Sane': an Interview with Alex Niven' [3:AM Magazine]
• '(Un)Settlers: on Earth Tongue's 'Floating Being' NZ Tour' [Queen Mob's Teahouse]
• 'Keep Yer Big Apple' [3:AM Magazine] • 'Glitch' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Style Wars: The Conquest of Gaul' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'presently' [RIC Journal]
• 'AfroGoths' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'Goodbye, Beautiful: Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air and War in Val d’Orcia' [War, Literature, and the Arts] • 'Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks' [3:AM Magazine]
• 'The Bargain Basement' [RIC Journal]
• 'The Most Beautiful Petrol Station in the World' [Terse Journal] • 'Ein Feste Burg' [RIC Journal] • 'Loudhe Sing Cuccoo: Folk Horror and Water Shall Refuse Them' [3:AM Magazine] • 'You Still Can't Win' [3:AM Magazine] • 'Sage of Discord; or, Melville at 200' [3:AM Magazine] • 'First as Tragedy, Then as Tragedy: On Christian Petzold's 'Transit'' [Terse Journal] • Walter Kempowski's Final Novel Finally Gets an English Translation [RIC Journal]
• Goth-ish: 3 Covers by Marilyn Manson [March Vladness]
• Sixteen Again [Queen Mob's Teahouse]
• Etymology and Extracts [Terror House]
• A Real Phoney: Wartime London in Henry Green’s 'Caught' [The Literary London Journal]
• Greener Pastures [War, Literature, and the Arts]
• Walter Kempowski's 'All for Nothing': An Unlikely Comedy Set in the Collapse of the Third Reich [3:AM]
• The Limits of Suspense: Anna Segher's 'The Seventh Cross' [DIAGRAM]
• On Yukio Mishima’s 'Star' Being Made Available For The First Time In English [3:AM]

Press

• housing haunted housing (Review) [3:AM Magazine]
• Great Works (Review) [RNZ]