What is Horror to me

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The Horror Genre and it is to me

What is Horror?
What is Gothic?
What do these words mean to you?
So From On Art & Life By John Ruskin
The Characteristics or moral elements of Gothic
1. Savageness (Or rudeness)
2. Changefulness (Love of Change)
3. Naturalism (Love of Nature)
4. Grotesqueness (Disturbed Imagination)
5. Rigidity (Obstinacy)
6. Redundance (Generosity)


For me I really discovered it in Jr High School with Edgar Allen Poe and Howard P. Lovecraft. Call of Cthulhu is the start of this for me.

Then along came slasher flicks, which are not my taste at all. I like the flavor of Event Horizon, Call of Cthulhu, Remade The Thing, Most anything from John Carpenter, especially Prince of Darkness, the more psychological than gore and blood violence.

I bought years worth of Fangoria back then as well.

Now my tastes are a bit more refined, a touch of Japanese Horror is good as well. But not Chainsaws, even though Hellraiser is incredible.

Tales and Stories from the Dark Heart

Few things are more appealing, more appetizing, more visceral, than a good Horror Story. One that makes your toes curl, one that makes that pit of your stomach just a little queasy. Ones that make your glottis twitch imagining something like that sliding down past your teeth, across your tongue and down wriggling into the pit of your stomach.

So here as time passes will be reviews of creepy things, not just books, along with stories and images located to spark the morbid imagination.

Welcome to Tales and Stories from the Dark Heart