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This Indigenous horror novel shows the terror of real-life environmental devastation

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM · 1 min read
This Indigenous horror novel shows the terror of real-life environmental devastation — Chicago Reader, San Francisco Arts news
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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 Ocean mocks the hubris of European men who seek to establish [ ] The post This Indigenous horror novel shows the terror of real-life environmental devastation appeared first on Chicago Reader.

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