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Welcome, foolish mortal, to the Horror Corner…

... also known as the Horner...

To quote S. Trimble from "A Demon Girl’s Guide to Life", “Horror plays with white patriarchal nightmares and taps into our ambivalence about normality, which means the potential for radical storytelling is always there. We watch, awestruck, as the world we recognize comes apart at the seams.”

To quote the book Horror in Architecture, “Openings dwell at the limit of the thinkable, at the edge of the epistemic spotlight, even though they may be right in front of our faces. In this, horror offers a lens-- no more, no less.”

Horror is the most interesting, multi-faceted, effective mode of storytelling compared to every other genre. When you tell people that your favorite pieces of media are from the horror genre, they either say, “um, really?” or “wow, me too!”. I haven’t really seen an in-between. It seems like you can either full send it and be a horror junkie or you try to avoid horror media altogether. I like horror because it’s so divisive.

Whether you enjoy it or not, horror pushes you out of your comfort zone, either by putting you in the perspective of someone you never would have thought to empathize with, forcing you to confront an awful truth rooted in the real world, or asking you to wrap your mind around an alien strangeness. I think that’s what all the best stories do, outside of horror as well, but discomfort is the backbone of this genre.

My favorite horror movies:

  • Ginger Snaps (2000)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Perfect Blue (1997)
  • Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Nope (2022)
  • The Wicker Man (1983)
  • Candyman (1992)
  • Dark Match (2024)
  • Dead of Winter (1987)

If you’re interested in what I’ve been watching / all my movie reviews, check out my Letterboxd!

My favorite horror books:

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  • The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  • Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
  • Delirio by Laura Restrepo
  • Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
  • Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

If you’re interested in what I’ve been reading / all my book reviews, check out my Storgraph!

My favorite analog horror on Youtube:

  • Chainmail Chasers by ChainmailChasers
  • The Oldest View by Kane Pixels
  • Maple 9 by burgerScum
  • Vita Carnis by Darian Quilloy
  • The Walten Files by Martin Walls
  • 404 Library by 404Library
  • The Mandela Catalogue by Alex Kister
  • Boisvert by Boisvert
  • Valle Verde by Alluvium
  • FNaF VHS by Squimpus McGrimpus

My favorite horror games:

  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Dredge
  • At Dead of Night
  • FAITH
  • Devotion
  • Oxenfree
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • P.T.
  • Fear and Hunger
  • Pathologic

(This is also not a complete list; there are a few games on here I haven’t played, I’ve only watched playthroughs of.)