2025 Goals

[Haruhiko]

And if you're looking for more reading material, check out his essay on Supernatural Horror in Literature. It references a lot of my (now) favourite authors. So I have Lovecraft to thank for introducing me to folks like M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen.

Apparently my hardcover includes it!



On page 1041 of course...

 

[isshinryuronin]

Can’t really get erotic without screwing

Yes, you can. There's lots of other stuff to do.

 

[Haruhiko]

Yes, you can. There's lots of other stuff to do.

Mmmm bitrate...

 

[Buka]

The book that scared me the most was The Exorcist. Scared the hell out of me.

Then I saw the movie at a midnight showing and the whole theatre was scared, really scared, which makes you more scared.

I had a seven a.m. class at UMass, Boston the next morning so I was going off a couple hours sleep. It was winter, freezing cold, I’m soaking in a hot bathtub at about five, thinking about the movie. When we had a power failure. I damn near jumped out of that tub, yelling NO!

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

I don't know that I've ever bought or read a horror book, at least not intentionally. Watched a few horror films, but something about it as a written medium never appealed to me. That said, when you publish it share a link to where we can buy it. It'll be my first horror book purchase, and I'll actually read it all the way through

 

[ap Oweyn]

The book that scared me the most was The Exorcist. Scared the hell out of me.

Then I saw the movie at a midnight showing and the whole theatre was scared, really scared, which makes you more scared.

I had a seven a.m. class at UMass, Boston the next morning so I was going off a couple hours sleep. It was winter, freezing cold, I’m soaking in a hot bathtub at about five, thinking about the movie. When we had a power failure. I damn near jumped out of that tub, yelling NO!

Nice. I'm not far from DC myself, so I've seen the stairs up close and personal. Coincidentally, I'm also not far from Burkittsville, Maryland (where the Blair Witch Project was set). For six years, I worked at the college where the BWP students supposedly went to school. It's not New England certainly, but this area has some decent horror chops.

 

[Gyakuto]

There is a romance going on between the male and female lead characters. A County Sheriff in Maine and a social media rising star
from Massachusetts. Can’t really get erotic without screwing up the storyline.

The county sheriff? With a big shiny ‘gun’. Yes they can

 

[Gyakuto]

I was planning a trip to Antarctica and thought this might be good to read before hand. I’m not going anymore.

 

[Gyakuto]

The book that scared me the most was The Exorcist. Scared the hell out of me.

You should read his follow up, ‘Legion’; it’s brilliantly terrifying.

Then I saw the movie at a midnight showing and the whole theatre was scared, really scared, which makes you more scared.

You should see the film of Legion, ‘Exorcist III’. Terrifying.

I had a seven a.m. class at UMass, Boston the next morning so I was going off a couple hours sleep. It was winter, freezing cold, I’m soaking in a hot bathtub at about five, thinking about the movie. When we had a power failure. I damn near jumped out of that tub, yelling NO!

 

[Haruhiko]

I don't know that I've ever bought or read a horror book, at least not intentionally. Watched a few horror films, but something about it as a written medium never appealed to me. That said, when you publish it share a link to where we can buy it. It'll be my first horror book purchase, and I'll actually read it all the way through

Try Bram Stoker's original Dracula. It's written as a library of journal entries, articles, and witness accounts. Quite original for its time.

 

[Buka]

You should read his follow up, ‘Legion’; it’s brilliantly terrifying.

You should see the film of Legion, ‘Exorcist III’. Terrifying.

I will and thank you.

 

[Gyakuto]

I don’t get scared reading horror or watching films (other than the cheap ‘jump scares’ eliciting primal sympathetic nervous system flight-or-flight mechanisms, that pepper modern horror films). I don’t get pulled into dramas or action films like my other half or friends and I think this is down to being unable to ‘suspend disbelief’. I do enjoy the narrative, the unfolding of a good story and all it’s complexities, but I’m very much a bystander dispassionately watching the action from the outside!

Perhaps this is why I have a low tolerance for poor, corny entertainment

 

[HighKick]

Those drones are crazy. The media has tried to convince people it's all conspiracy theories, or people not knowing what planes look like.

But I've got a friend who got a phd in political psychology, is quite literally the person I know that'd be least likely sucked into any conspiracy theories, lives over an hour from the nearest airport, reporting seeing these drones. He's taken videos of them and shared them. I live less than a mile from an airport and know what low flying airplanes look like, i also know what helicopters look like, and it looks like none of those. It's also way more 'traffic' than any air traffic controller would allow in an area.

Four explanations come to mind:

1: Its the government doing some sort of surveillance that they don't want us to know. I don't think this is likely, simply because when they realized the press it was getting (and they did try to downplay it) they would've stopped it,or figured out anither option for what they're doing.

2: it's a foreign government getting information. This makes sense in terms of motive, they're gathering some sort of intel on bases in the area. But it's a widespread enough area that confuses he-i'd expect it to only be by the military bases.

3: it's a private citizen/private company. But I cant see what their goal would be or how they'd be stopping the govt from figuring out the origin and ordering a cease and desist.

4: it's aliens. Which may or may not even exist. And I'd completely write off this option, if it weren't for multiple congressional hearings over the last year acknowledging their existence. So that's my guess.

This may sound like a stretch, but I do worry they are the precursor to the 'kamakize' ballons the Japanese sent over the US in the mid 1900's. Japan Killer Ballons
They would certainly be a much higher-tech, more accurate, informational, and deadly attack.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

This may sound like a stretch, but I do worry they are the precursor to the 'kamakize' ballons the Japanese sent over the US in the mid 1900's. Japan Killer Ballons
They would certainly be a much higher-tech, more accurate, informational, and deadly attack.

I don't find it a stretch. It's crazy to me how accurate drones can be, and how little accountability there is (regardless of country/government) for when they hit civilians or high-civilian areas.