Touched By A Crazy Person: The 2009 Remake of a Horror Classic

A few years ago, I got my official first batshit crazy person e-mail, which I dissected here. That thing was a doozy, a spiel from some misguided, grammatically-variable wackaloon about how I'd personally ruined fantasy forever by letting black folks into my imaginary world.

Now, despite the nigh-unreadability of much of that letter, it was a classic showcase for two infinitely recurring elements of author harassment. Authors receiving hate-mail or completely unhinged criticism are handed the...