Tag: folk-horror

  • reads | Ghost Story, Peter Straub

    This book is a reread, but might as well have been a virgin read for the length of time since I last read it and the various growth potential of the reader since that time.

    When I was younger, we often spent a lot of time up at my aunt’s lakewoods cabin in Northern Minnesota. So did plenty of other aunts and uncles, their friends and otherwise. Someone along the way, someone left a copy of Ghost Story behind, which was put onto a rickety suspended shelf for such books left behind, kind of our family “little library”: take a book/leave a book mentality. I was a budding Stephen King fan at the time (up until I got into King, I read plenty of other juvenile-focused horror, and King was one of my first forays into adult horror, along with Lovecraft). This book was on that shelf, next to Flowers in the Attic (VC Andrews, which had been read as well).

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  • nightmare fuel

    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash
    grundylocks and grimley
    gone running through the green
    chasing after unicorns in
    the backyard of childhood dreams
    waving with their hacksaws
    and their axes and their gonnes
    grind a horn to tincture, say they
    to drink to gruesome songs

  • The White Reindeer

    I just streamed an interesting folk-horror film, White Reindeer. By today’s standards most people who hesitate to call it horror, but it is no less horror than some of the Universal Monsters movies we grew up watching at Saturday matinees at the local theater for $1 an afternoon. Maybe we’ll just call it macabre.

    Scene from "The White Reindeer" (1952), antlers buried in the snow drifts
    Scene from White Reindeer (1952)
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