Yet others can hear a sound in the woods and interpret it as the swaying of trees in the wind, or the movement of harmless animals. Some may look upon a rocky outcropping, or a hole in the ground, or a cave, and see it for what it is in a physical sense. If a tree falls in the forest and you weren't there to see it, did it not fall? Perception can be reality when reality is what we not just perceive, but truly see. Maybe what we think we see but would never dare believe is actually what's absolutely real.
When we do trust our eyes, and what information it is relaying to our rational brain, perhaps we shouldn't. When we don't trust our eyes, perhaps we should. This was a quick anecdote, and seemingly innocuous, but as the discussion moved on, this visual vignette and its explanation sent my mind reeling. This gave him pause, and in pondering what he had just seen, or thought he had seen, he surmised that it could be possible that the bird he first saw may have physically transformed itself into the leaf that he found. As he drew nearer, he realized that what he was certain was a bird was actually a dead leaf, rocking back and forth in the wind. As he was walking to his car one afternoon, he noticed a fluttering object up ahead of him, trapped in the corner of the structure, that appeared to be a distressed bird most likely injured and unable to fly. During the Q & A session after he read his latest collection's titular piece, Evenson shared a personal story that had occurred in a parking garage just days before. Being able to enjoy a horror novel, then, means being able to weather a storm and come out OK on the other side.I recently attended a Brian Evenson reading held at Skylight Books in the appropriately understated, enduringly cool east Hollywood enclave of Los Feliz. When you finish a creepy novel, horror video game, or scary movie, you’ve managed to survive the unthinkable, even though the characters may not have been so lucky. Horror’s bigger now than ever, and while that may bode ill for the near future, you can take comfort in the relative safety of horror fiction. We fixated on zombies during the Great Recession, and the Trump era saw mainstream horror pictures tackle racism. Club, Matt Schimkowitz argues that the haunted house genre has reflected problems with the U.S.
If you find yourself increasingly drawn to horror media as your anxieties about climate change, war, fascism, and the economy rise, you’re not alone. For your creepiest bedside TBR, I’ve pulled together a list of 20 must-read horror books that deserve adaptations, big screen or small. Between the bevy of new horror video games and Nic Cage‘s absolutely wild career turn as a scream king, we’re in the midst of a horror revival.
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