I’ve written about Halloween and horror quite a bit over the years. I thought I’d share these links going into October this year:
- We know that fungi can infect humans
- It’s a book whose metatextual enigmas attracted credulous postmodernists in hordes
- The history of horror is a history of what we aren’t all that frightened of anymore
- Halloween used to be kid stuff
- The flowers acquired associations of decay and disease
- I don’t know what the first two were, but the third was for death
- The most triumphant example of a trope is the Trope Codifier
- Its power is not confined to its grasp
- Halloween came early
- Her creepy imaginary friend is called Captain Howdy
- Setback in The Sassoon Files
- The vampire is consumption in human form
- Almost a vampire story, but with dogs
- The one fierce volcano burst had satisfied the need of nature
- Sacrifices must be made!
- Not every lesson can be taught explicitly
- The asuang ruse is part of the legend of Edward Lansdale
- Not everybody knows your rules
- I attributed his craziness to the Zeitgeist
- Expanded Anglo-Saxonism
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
- Inference With The Vampire
- Prepared for Dracula’s Minions
- Blood, Dice, and Darkness
- S.T. Joshi Returns His Two World Fantasy Awards
- Lovecraft on Cats and Dogs
- A Cultural History of Capes
- Some Words with a Mummy (revisited)
- Alan Moore on Lovecraft and the 20th Century
- The Secret to Composing Halloween
- Night On Bald Mountain
- Camille Saint-Saëns’s “Danse Macabre”
- Did the writer of “True Detective” plagiarize Thomas Ligotti and others?
- The Arkham Digest Interviews Nic Pizzolatto
- The King in Yellow
- Benefits from Trade Day
- Christopher Lee: Metal Rocker and Total Badass
- It’s pronounced “Eye-gor” now
- Foseti’s Vibrant Halloween
- The Phantasmagorical Four
- The Plague Behind Zombies and Vampires
- A Rendezvous in Averoigne
- Collected Ghost Stories
- It’s the Great Cthulhu, Charles Dexter
- The Castle of Otranto
- Lovecraft’s influence has been wide, but superficial — because his works were reactionary.
- What if Dr. Seuss wrote The Call of Cthulhu?
- 121 Years of Sanity-Blasting
- The Long Tentacle of H.P. Lovecraft in Manga
- No child has ever been killed by poisoned candy
- Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Candy Witch?
- Pigeons From Hell
- The New Ones
- Where the Deep Ones Are
- Some Words with a Mummy
- Frankenstein
- The Circus of Dr. Lao
- The Birds
- Calvin’s Snowman House of Horror
- The Rare Carpathian Armadillo
- Cthulhu License Plate
- Dracula’s castle returned to Van Hapsburg
- 50 Greatest Horror Movies
- Weird Tales Gallery
- HP Lovecraft by Michel Houellebecq
- NPR on Arkham House
- Gremlins on a B-17 Bomber
- Danvers Asylum for the Criminally Insane