The first Hellraiser movie left big marks on me. A lot of suggestion, a lot of having to put things together. Another one that was called Sitting In The Corner, Whimpering Quietly. Etchison had one called The Pitch that really just gave me the creeps forever. He wrote some really wicked short horror stories. Dennis Etchison, I feel like people haven’t given enough credit to. So what would you say are some of your favorite horror stories? You don’t find that anywhere else, except maybe in poetry. In good horror, there’s always some feeling of having become destabilized, or not knowing where you’re situated. It makes you feel a little more in control, in a sort of weird, unmoored way. It’s a safe place to experience stuff that wouldn’t be safe if you had to go through it in real life. I think a lot of people who are into horror have some degree of trauma they want to process. I had the chance to talk to John about horror, film, and even a bit of music.ĭo you think it’s important to tell horror stories?įor me, I think it’s just because it connects me to… It’s a safe place for exploring things. Also an accomplished novelist, he’s just released his third book, Universal Harvester, a small-town horror story set in the early 2000s that kicks off with a video store employee finding disturbing footage recorded over one of the films in his catalogue. John Darnielle, one of the most acclaimed lyricists of our generation, is most well-known for being the singer/songwriter for the group the Mountain Goats.
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