Horrors Galore

I hate it here but I also love it here

It’s fitting that Halloween, my absolute favorite holiday, feels like it’s coinciding with the business looking like it’s still taking a slow motion nosedive off a cliff, then stumbling into quicksand to sink inch by inch, with some poor exec standing in the quicksand screaming, “We want prestige-gural.” I can only hope that after the business craters and contracts upon itself, that there’s a rebirth, like a new sun being made. That’s my hope.

I’ve tried to bury my head in the sand the last few months. Doing more to actively get work i.e. trying to get an option on IP, writing more original material etc. But it’s been tough. I realized late last month that I’ll likely lose my union health insurance next year and have to go on Covered CA. I do have leads for guild-covered work but deals take forever, so I’ll definitely be looking at a gap. It is what it is.

To keep myself from fretting too much, I’ve been reading a ton and writing into the void. I’m reading 2-3 books a month. So yay me. One of of the books I read recently was by Stephen King called Danse Macabre.

It analyzes horror mainly from 1950-1980s ish and some modern horror if you have the later editions of the book. It goes off on diatribes on King’s life but worth a read.

My biggest takeaway from the book?

Horror is essentially a conservative genre, not politically, but more so what is an external threat to our status quo? 

This book also got me thinking to the types of horror there are out there. I made a little PDF below.