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The Invitation: When Grief Becomes Prophesy
Ah, 2015... Remember those halcyon days before we had experienced the cascading torrent of nightmares the last eleven years has been? It was also the year Karyn Kusama's The Invitation played film festivals. It would get a limited theatrical release and video on demand in April of 2016. Though it wa
Sep 23, 2026 0 1
The Art of Fear and The Power of the Frame: Audiences and Assumptions
“Horror – as an interest, passion, or profession – has fandoms and sub-fandoms; it has cliques; it has little fiefdoms. If horror is your business, you might have an audience, or followers, and hopefully customers (those three are not the same thing, by the way). It’s tempting, natural and even good
Jun 16, 2026 0 1
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They Don't Need Martial Law
It seems the fears about martial law are not taking the full picture into account. The fuller picture, considering what was normalized long before Trump even began his political career. The things many people are afraid of the administration doing or being able to do, by instituting martial law, hav
Jan 17, 2026 0 11
The Art of Fear and the Power of the Frame: The Fear of Fear Itself
Horror is the art of fear, the uncomfortable and the taboo. This is to say it's the storytelling genre we use to explore those things. This can mean very specific, individual fears. It can also mean collective fears. It also means exploring ideas, themes and topics that sit at the nexus of that rela
Aug 19, 2025 0 3
The Art of Fear and the Power of the Frame: How Did Pop Culture Get So Gloomy?
“Dark sides are important, they should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.” Gillian Flynn One of the reasons I fell in love with storytelling (and the arts more broadly) is that it is a way we express our experience of being human, in all it's complication and nuance. It's why story and the arts d
Nov 14, 2024 0 2
The Art of Fear and The Power of the Frame: Introduction
As I'm aging, and giving myself the permission, the freedom, to spend more time and energy considering storytelling, I've been taking a new look at things I have taken as givens, maybe taken for granted. Among them is the fact that storytelling, and the arts as a whole, are one of the ways we commun
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I'm Afraid of Americans
Fear. Anger. Two of the most common and destructive human emotional and psychological responses. They're deeply interconnected, and one of the few real truisms is how often anger is the veil for fear, especially but certainly not only for men. Market Street, on August 12 in Charlottesville in 2012,
Jun 6, 2023 0 2