Based on a tip I got from Gamerstable, Jessa and I decided to watch Stranger Things over our evening meal. Like Boogiepop Phantom, I was looking for something with a bit of mystery but also elements of the fantastical, so as to turn that mystery into horror.
For me, I think Stranger Things misses horror, but really nails dark fantasy. This may seem like an odd quibble, but for me horror is about struggling against evil… …and failing or living with the despair that you will fail. Stranger Things is about horrible things… …and the heroes that rise and overcome them. This is not a criticism of the show, I actually find that I enjoy dark fantasy a bit more than horror most of the time, as it is typically better done. Continue reading Stranger Things→
I recently finished reading Landlocked Lighthouse, the recent thriller by Mixi J. Applebottom. Mixi and I have been friends for quite a while, so this one was pretty high on my reading list; when she was offering a free copy for signing up on her newsletter, just as I finished The Martian, it became a no-brainer.
One of my favorite types of horror is what I have described to my friends as “house horror”. As an introvert, my home is where I go to recharge and relax, as a result, stories about people feeling uncomfortable in their homes strikes a particular chord in me that really hits me (House of Leaves comes to mind, and if you remember that I also like epistolary, it was a double-whammy of amazingness). As a result, I love this kind of horror, and while I feel that Landlocked Lighthouse was more thriller and less horror, I still quite enjoyed it. Continue reading Landlocked Lighthouse→
Thoughts are stripped of their texture to form words that they might be colored by the mind of another.
