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Home Sweet Haunted Home

Horror might not be the first genre people think of when they’re looking for comfort. By its very nature, it’s meant to evoke unease and dread, if not outright fear….

5 New Goth Bands Even the Goth Elders Will Like

Only a lucky few can say they were au courant during goth music’s initial spawning from post-punk in the late 1970s. As an 80’s kid, I was only peripherally aware of bands like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. I wouldn’t “discover” the likes of Joy Division or Suicide until my teen years while playing the CD of The Crow soundtrack on repe

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Chaos Trifecta #5: Folklore

I have been thinking a lot about the differences between folklore and fairy tales, particularly when it comes to media presentation—of happy endings and beautiful princesses and glorious and friendly mythical creatures.

Carnival of Souls

Three girls in a car are challenged to a drag race by two guys. The girls accept, and the race is on. The two vehicles speed through town, out into a rural area, and across a wooden bridge. The cars are driving side by side when the girls’ vehicle breaks through the railing and plunges into the river below, while the boys drive off unharmed.

Eating Endings #4: Belly-Slitter

One of the things that endlessly fascinate me—speaking as a person who was brought up femme in the rural United States of America—is how intuitive it feels for me to draw connections between women, fruit, and guilt. I wasn’t raised in a Christian household, but even so it was impossible for me to grow up free from the knowledge of Eve and original sin.

The Gateway Back to Gothic: 13 Gothic Horror Books by BIPOC Authors

The first gothic story I remember falling in love with was The Phantom of the Opera. At the time, we lived in San Francisco. My dad was a surgical resident, my mom newly turned stay-at-home, having quit her job at an architecture firm to care for me and my younger brother. We didn’t have many indulgences, but one thing my parents did, when they could afford to, was take us to see musicals.