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All It Wants for Christmas by Adam Godfrey
A ruling majority of radio dials were fixed on holiday classics. Lampposts had been outfitted with wreaths and vintage incandescence. The wind was richly colored with the scent of hot cocoa and cookies and fire smoke clashing with the snow-cold burn of winter.
Meanwhile, Crown Pointe Mall bore the song of holiday angst.
It wasn’t the cheery note of film and television and...
Guest Post: Better Watch Yourself by Adam Godfrey
BETTER WATCH YOURSELF
By Adam Godfrey
It was a cool, fall night when it came to me. A simple idea, spawned while listening to the radio at a stop light. A random moment, no different than any other, when the lyrics to a song hit me through the speakers.
You wanna know what Zeus said to Narcissus?
You’d better watch yourself.
It was at that moment that a seed was planted, quickly developing into a unique concept that would...
The New Normal of Horror by Adam Pottle
* WARNING: This article contains spoilers for different books and films. *
In Danse Macabre, his influential work of nonfiction, Stephen King wrote that horror is
really as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece pinstriped suit… [because] its
main purpose is to reaffirm the virtues of the norm by showing us what awful things happen
to people who venture into taboo lands. Within the framework of most horror tales we find
a...
Guest Post: Hawthorne as Horror & the Monstrous Woman by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Hawthorne as Horror & the Monstrous Woman
By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Before I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” I didn’t understand that women in fiction could be monstrous. Or that “monstrous” didn’t always mean a stalker in the night.
Beatrice, the daughter of a botanist who breeds poisonous plants, is herself poison. You may argue that she cannot be monstrous because she means no ill will to the man who tries to love her, but villains maintain their own sense of logic. Beatrice...
Guest Post: A Photoshoot Inspired by Fiction | Mike Thorn & Danielle Nicol
