Macabre Author. Disturbed Artist. Unhinged Alaskan
There has been a great deal of stuff happening for me lately, but I haven't had a chance to post news updates about any of it! I'm going to use the excuse of having last-minute stuff to do for the magazine; to be perfectly honest it had a lot to do with the new semester [...]
This week we've got a good mix of urban legends, a repost of an original story by yours truly, and my final words on the Necronomicon.
In the spirit of all of the panic that has been going around about COVID-19, I wrote a short horror story as if it were the daily diary of someone who was just starting to realize the gravity of what we're going through on a global level. It's pure fiction with only one Fairbanks name drop, my favorite watering hole; hopefully, they're not terribly upset by it. I carried on that theme with an article about the origins of Pandora's Box and a retelling of the Greek myth that made Pandora famous. The rest of the week I finish up with something we're all kind of feeling right now, existential dread as well as grave robbing. Interested in seeing more horror related content? Check out Puzzle Box Horror for more great articles!
This week I dove into ghost ships, both the scientific theories of how they exist (and they do!) as well as the lore that surrounds them, but I also did two more Lovecraft-centric articles, one about the creatures that were made famous years after his death, as well as a sort of send-off to his legacy as an author. There are a lot of less than cheery parts of his personal viewpoints that I purposefully neglected to speak about, as they did little to actually contribute to his work in the realm of horror, so while they may be incredibly relevant when in regards to him as a human being, I didn't feel as if they were relevant to his body of work.
Another installment of the Dead Author Dedication for Lovecraft this week, where I wrote about the literary works he completed within his lifetime--this also got me heavily into reading pulp magazines which were popular at the time. After Lovecraft, I discussed how the human race is genetically engineered to have a deeply seated fear of [...]
Join me as I explore the mythology of the Wendigo, a view of psychokinetic horror, the health benefits of watching horror movies, as well as the the first installment of our month long dead-author dedication to H.P. Lovecraft. Check out Puzzle Box Horror for more fantastic articles about the supernatural.