Category: horror

  • Story Time: "Where The Zooey Deschanel Blood Enters The Heart" by Kitty Glitter

    Remember when I told you about my new favourite writer, Kitty Glitter? Well, s/he put up a Fiverr gig to write a story about Meow Solo and Zooey Deschanel (stars of Wil Wheaton: Teenage Hump Machine and its sequel, Ashton Kutcher’s Space-Sex Rampage), featuring me, for five bucks. I know, bargain! Here it is in its…

  • Why Horror Movies Are Scary, and Why People Like Them Anyway

    Hollywood Horror by Tedakin A while ago, I was contacted by a PR agency who had seen one of my talks about the psychology of horror. A British media company was putting together a Halloween marketing campaign, and wanted some advice on how to use some scariness to make it more effective. I wrote them…

  • Book Review: Glen, by Bryan Gorrison

    It can always get worse. That seems to be the core message of Bryan Gorrison‘s debut novel. When it begins with the titular Glen getting shipped off to jail for violently molesting a child, it’s hard to imagine how it can go down from there, but soon Glen is involved in a spiral of homelessness,…