Category: Philosophy of Horror
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From Blood to Whispers: The Appeal of Quiet Horror
I used to live in the guts of horror. By that, I mean the kind of horror that stains your palms and tastes like rust. My other books — especially the Bloody Series with its love for graphic detail, human monsters, and the unforgiving anatomy of violence — live in the places where flesh tears,…
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The Nihilistic Void of Lovecraft’s Cosmicism:
Art, Indifference, and Ironic Immortality The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each…
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Lying for a Living
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying ‘wolf, wolf’ came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels. Literature was born on the day when a boy came crying ‘wolf, wolf,’ and there was no wolf behind him.”~ VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lies are funny things. The smaller…
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I’m Not Normal
There’s something wrong with me. There must be. I mean, other than writing horror stories – in both senses as I’m not much of a writer – I look and act, for the most part, relatively normal. Well, as normal as normal goes I guess. I’m quite boring. Ordinary. You’d find talking to a lump…
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THRILLSEEKING
I haven’t really done a lot in terms of watching or writing horror in the last month. However, Sunday (for some reason) I recalled the movie Ronin, which I love dearly, and how I like Jean Reno’s cautious cool persona. This led me into trying to find a film he starred in I couldn’t remember…
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How To Write Dreadpunk
And Why You Should ~punk fiction is a genre that typically embraces anti-authoritarian themes, rebellion, and societal defiance. It’s not just a genre; it’s a mindset. Born from rebellion, ~punk challenges conventions, tears apart societal norms, and reimagines the past and the future through a lens of punk attitude. The punk movement began with cyberpunk,…
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To Stephen King: I Agree
And to anyone else who might share in the sentiment he shared in an interview recently, that overall, the most frightening horror film has to be, for me, the original Night Of The Living Dead. “There has been an epidemic of mass murder, being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins,” said the news…
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Horror Literature and the Status Quo
It is my contention that horror is essentially a conservative, even reactionary, genre. There are exceptions, of course, that goes without saying. But at its core, horror is not progressive. The scary story story is meant to reinforce the status quo. Horror has its roots in folk tales and fairy tales. The purpose of those…
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The Sky Frightens
As I slowly (and I do mean slowly) eek out an episode here and there of In The Light Of… on Kindle Vella, I watch lots of YouTube videos for inspiration. What’s my story about? A friendly guy in the present day who helps people deal with UFO abductions. I’m trying to make the UFO…
Threads that Bind 