Midnight Pals: Horror for Her (Patreon)
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Mary Shelley: sup fuckers time pack it in!Poe: what's going on?Shelley: haven't you heard? there's a new kind of horror in town!Shelley: it's called cozy horror!Shelley: and this one's just for us girls!Tabitha King: yeah!
Shelley: the gals got together and we decidedShelley: we're all tired of your bullshitShelley: so we invented a special kind of horrorShelley: Horror -- For Her (tm)Tabitha King: yeah!
Shelley: a kinder gentler kind of horror for the ladyfolkShelley: [flipping switchblade] and if you don't like it, i'll fucking cut youShelley: in the face!Tabitha King: yeah!
Angela Carter: now that the women are in chargeCarter: who's going to tell the first cozy horror storyCarter: Tabitha?Tabitha King:Carter: Anne?Anne Rice:Mary Shelley:Carter: Mary?Shelley: i don't actually know what cozy horror isTabitha King: oh thank god someone else said it
Carter:Carter: really, mary.Shelley: i just wanted to push around those nerds a bitCarter:Shelley: come on, they like it!
Carter: well girls according to the discourseCarter: cozy horror is horror without explicit goreAnne Rice: oooohhhh ok yeah i can do thatTabitha King: sure that worksMary Shelley:Carter: Mary?Shelley: hold onShelley: i'm thinking this ain't such a hot idea after all
Carter: hold on there's moreCarter: it's horror without explicit goreCarter: it's also cartoons with a horror aestheticCarter: so it's a sub-genre that encompasses Rosemary's Baby but also Scooby DooCarter:Carter: i think we might need to workshop this one a little more
Stephen King: boy the girls are really going all out for this cozy horrorPatricia Highsmith: ugh, who can fathom them dames, huh?Highsmith: always doing their horror of domesticity thingHighsmith: ugh, i tell yaHighsmith: couldn't be meStephen King: