Horror season is nigh, and along with my steady diet of rom-coms, I’ve started watching more scary movies. This week I viewed IT FOLLOWS, which is a cross between THE RING and a bad afterschool special: A girl, Jay (Maika Monroe), finds herself being followed by a shape-shifting monster after having sex. If she wants … [Read more…]
I just watched THE BABADOOK, this Australian horror movie streaming on Netflix about a creature that comes alive from the pages of a children’s book–one you’d never borrow from your library because it’s a creepy vintage popup book and also it’s fucking evil. It made me think a lot about stories and what makes them scary. … [Read more…]
Today I’m welcoming writer Cait Spivey, author of the novella I See The Web and its sequel, A Single Thread, which comes out on Halloween. I gulped down I See the Web over the weekend, and, despite being a severe arachnophobe, enjoyed reading a unique tale with a funny young adult narrator. (But, yes, I … [Read more…]
Today I welcome a guest post from author Ann Gelder, author of Bigfoot and the Baby, writing about Bigfoot as part of the Halloween 2014 series. I’ve always felt that even the sunniest-seeming lives are ringed with darkness, like scraps of paper slowly burning. The fire that eventually consumes us also gives us light. When I … [Read more…]