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The first time I saw Blair Witch was in a hospital room about twelve days after a careless driver in a minivan smashed the shit out of me on a country road. I was, in a manner of speaking, the perfect viewer: roaring with pain from top to bottom, high on painkillers, and looking at a poorly copied bootleg videotape on a portable TV. (How did I get the bootleg? Never mind how I got it.)
Stephen King, pirating video!
— Mar 11, 2024 01:11PM
Stephen King, pirating video!
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Most parents think they understand this openness better than, in many cases, they actually do, and try to keep their children away from [...] horror and terror—“Rated PG [...], but may be too intense for younger children,” the ads for Jaws read—believing, I suppose, that to allow their kids to go to a real horror movie would be tantamount to rolling a live hand grenade into a nursery school.”
— Apr 14, 2024 12:26PM
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His worst fear, my mother said, was not of the submarines but of having his master’s license revoked because of his poor eyesight—while on land, he had a habit of driving over curbs and through stoplights. My own eyesight is similar; they look like glasses, but sometimes I think they’re a couple of Coke-bottle bottoms up there on my face.
— Apr 14, 2024 12:17PM
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It has always seemed peculiar to me that I owe that moment in my own life to my father, who left my mother when I was two and my brother, David, four. I don’t remember him at all, but in the few pictures of him I’ve seen, he is a man of average height, handsome in a 1940s sort of way, a bit podgy, bespectacled.
— Apr 14, 2024 12:16PM
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written at white heat by Robert Louis Stevenson in three days. It so horrified his wife that Stevenson burned the manuscript in his fireplace . . . and then wrote it again from scratch in another three days.
— Mar 16, 2024 11:40AM
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written at white heat by Robert Louis Stevenson in three days. It so horrified his wife that Stevenson burned the manuscript in his fireplace . . . and then wrote it again from scratch in another three days.
— Mar 16, 2024 11:26AM
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According to the lore (and in his long novel, Stoker marshals a formidable amount of vampire lore), a vampire has the ability to command the lesser animals—cats, rats, weasels (and possibly Republicans, ha-ha). It is Dracula who has sent these rats to give our heroes a hard time.
— Mar 13, 2024 05:16PM
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As a kid, I cut my teeth on William M. Gaines’s horror comics—The Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror—plus all the Gaines imitators (but like a good Elvis record, the Gaines magazines were often imitated, never duplicated).
— Mar 13, 2024 05:07PM
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But it’s not a hunt. It’s a dance. And sometimes they turn off the lights in this ballroom.
But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.
May I have the pleasure?
— Mar 13, 2024 01:18PM
But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.
May I have the pleasure?
Madi
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Feelings of love and kindness, the ability to care and empathize, are all we know of the light. They are efforts to link and integrate; they are the emotions which bring us together, if not in fact then at least in a comforting illusion that makes the burden of mortality a little easier to bear.”
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— Mar 13, 2024 01:13PM
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“I believe that we are all ultimately alone and that any deep and lasting human contact is nothing more nor less than a necessary illusion—but at least the feelings which we think of as “positive” and “constructive” are a reaching-out, an effort to make contact and establish some sort of communication.
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— Mar 13, 2024 01:13PM
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