--- title: Gretchen Felker-Martin | TIME description: Felker-Martin is a film critic and the author of Manhunt. She writes about sexual revulsion, body horror, and how violence forms and fits into our lives canonical: https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gretchen Felker-Martin ## Gretchen Felker-Martin Felker-Martin is a film critic and the author of [_Manhunt_](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250794659/manhunt). She writes about sexual revulsion, body horror, and how violence forms and fits into our lives ## Gretchen Felker-Martin *  Oct 28, 2022 ### [Why We Love Violent Delights](https://time.com/6225755/why-we-love-violent-delights-halloween/) The intimacy of violent delights lets us safely spend time with death, writes novelist Gretchen Felk... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/","name":"Gretchen Felker-Martin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/"},"name":"Gretchen Felker-Martin","jobTitle":null,"description":"Felker-Martin is a film critic and the author of Manhunt. She writes about sexual revulsion, body horror, and how violence forms and fits into our lives","url":"https://time.com/author/gretchen-felker-martin/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```