Book Club - The History and Evolution of Horror
I've been asked to chat a bit about my horror book club. We are currently making a journey through the history and evolution of horror. We started out as a Stephen King book club. In this group of friends, we would frequently close out a party discussing horror literature, in particular Stephen King, yet we could find no single book that all of us had read. So we decided to close that gap, pick our favorites, and work through an assemblage of his best work. After a couple other incarnations, we have returned to horror. Partially because that's where we started, and partially to have an excuse to dig more effectively into that "to read" pile of classics.
We wanted to trace the roots of horror from the gothics to our modern era. We broke the …
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Calling all Crowd-Sorcerers (or, if you prefer, "Horde-sourcers"?)
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As the company grows this year (adding Cast of Wonders and Mothership Zeta) and our other volunteers plot to take over the world (via local festivals …