Midnight Pals: Cozy Horror (Patreon)

King: hey have you guys heard about this new thing? King: it’s called cozy horror! Poe: whats that? King: I’m not entirely sure King: but it seems to be quite the discourse Barker: oh cool Barker: cool cool cool

King: well do you guys remember when we had the elevated horror discourse?  Barker: no  King: come on sure you do!  King: it lasted a whole hot minute

King: so I learned about this new thing called cozy horror  King: in an article from the Mary Sue  Barker: ohhhh the mary sue  Barker: now I get it  Barker: why are you doing this to us steve  Barker: this is gonna be hopepunk discourse all over again

King: now listen guys  King: I know you might think horror is just slasher films  King: but there’s all different kinds of horror!  King: it doesn’t even have to be scary!  Barker: get outta town!  Barker: no I mean it  Barker: get outta town  Barker: get the fuck outta town

John Clute: [chewing on pipe] ah yes well  Clute: what you’re thinking of there, steve, is termed affect horror  Clute: now that should be differentiated as horror as understood as a narrative theory  Clute: proceeding through 4 distinct stages  Barker: oh my god shut up you nerd

King: see cozy horror  King: is any horror without gore  King: or sometimes its just gothic  Poe: steve, this concept seems kind of ill-defined  King: hold on edgar I’m just getting started   King: or sometimes it’s a cartoon with a funny Dracula in it

King: there’s a kind of cozy horror called folk horror Ramsey Campbell: whats this now?  King: folk horror  King: it’s brand new  Campbell: I’ll have to look into this

Campbell: I need to check this out  Campbell: [pulling out pencil & notepad] could you spell it for me?  King: F O L  Campbell: whoa slow down a bit  King: F King: O  Campbell: [scribbling notes] F Campbell: O...

Barker: so what is this? Just horror that’s... nice? John Wiswell: well gosh you guys Wiswell: I think I can help with this one  Barker: oh christ here we go  Koontz: [clapping] yay! John wiswell! Yay!

Wiswell: what if Wiswell: a ghost just wanted to be your friend?  Barker: we have that already  Barker: hes called caspar  Koontz: oh! I know that one! Koontz: he’s the friendly ghost

King: could it be that we’re all misunderstanding the term  King: perhaps the real cozy horror  King: was the friends we made along the way