Tag: Horror

  • “Cunning Folk”/What is Scary/”Moby Dick”/What I am Reading

    We all have our prejudices, I suppose. I really dislike things written in the present tense, for the most part. It’s fine to add a little spice or create a sense of urgency. For an entire book, it can be a little difficult for me to take. I find it oddly distracting. I finished “Cunning…

  • Roger Ebert/Criticism/”Ghoul”

    Roger Ebert was basically America’s critic for a large chunk of his career. He was an excellent writer, and had a canyon deep understanding of the medium he spent most of his time writing about. He was also a passionate and thoughtful critic: watch this clip of him arguing with Gene Siskel about the film…

  • Thinking/”Blindsight”/The Map

    Let’s talk a little bit about thinking. It’s a wildly abstract concept that we spend a lot of time contemplating. If we say something ‘makes us think’ we usually mean that we have been introduced to a concept that we haven’t previously contemplated; whether or not we actually do anything with that is, well, up…

  • “Necroscope II : Vamphiri!”/Feeling Feelings

    “You’ve got to be fuckin’ kidding me” -Palmer, The Thing. I gave in. I don’t know what convinced me to start the second Necroscope book so quickly after finishing the first one, but start it I did. And finish it as well. Let’s face it in the previous entry about the Necroscope series, I kind…

  • “A Descent into the Maelström”/What I am reading

    I read “A Descent into the Maelström” this week in addition to finishing “Vamphiri!” and working on a couple other things that I’ll mention below. It’s a story about a whirlpool, and the narrator’s failure to die in it after figuring out that the larger an object, the faster it gets sucked down, so he…

  • “You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood”

    I didn’t go to the dentist for three years, because I am a dumbass. As a result of this, I ended up being in the dentist chair for a deep cleaning. I’m terrified of the dentist in general; and my wife found one who specializes in folks like me— a little bit of nitrous and…

  • “Necroscope”/Cannibal Corpse/fuckin’ br00tal as Criticism

    Lying there cold after a torturous deathYour life ended fast you took your last breathDead in a grave, your final placeThe maggots infest your disfigured face -Cannibal Corpse, “A Skull full of Maggots” Let’s talk about “Necroscope”. It’s the first book in an (at present) twenty volume series, which was started in 1986 and the…

  • HP Lovecraft/Friday the 13th vs A Nightmare of Elm Street/“Stage Fright”, again…

    “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me” -Palmer, The Thing. It’s the stated policy of this blog to spoil things. It’s part of the process. I’m re-stating it here. Everything mentioned in the title will have the fuck spoiled out of it, so if you want surprises, I quote Lord Humungus: “just walk away”. Horror has…