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Feedback 029 - The Creepiest Tori Amos (Patreon)

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2024-11-13 00:40:12
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Richard Horsman

Those hodag stories were a delight. They also reminded me of something: have you guys ever covered Maurice Richardson? He wrote a collection called The Exploits of Englebright that I love a bunch. The titular character is a member of The Surrealist Sportsman's Club, and each story covers him playing (or just surviving) some kind of mindbending sport. Fun silly stuff, and a good fit if you ever do a "sports and Leisure" month.

Ryan Thomas

Analog Horror: Is Skinamarink an example?

Ryan Thomas

CHRIS, you're in the U.K. Have you visited Whitby, the fictional crashing site of Dracula's Demeter? If so, what was your experience there? Just curious.

Rick Hound

I’d say Ray Bradbury only works for me with his longer form stories like “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, “Dandelion Wine”, and “Martian Chronicles”—the last being that sci-fi was the major genre I read when I was young.

HRPrice

On the subject of analog horror- last month, in the lead up to Halloween, YouTube recommended a short video from a channel I’d never seen before. In the thumbnail, it was obviously a muddy VHS transfer, showing only some trees, and the title of the video was ambiguous. I’m not always great at horror and YouTube is always a dice roll, but I figured, “Why not? It’s the season, after all”. You know what it was? Kittens! Kittens and autumn leaves and cool synth with a hint of melancholy. I guess the channel is a synth musician and experimental film maker? It was super nice and really hit home how thoroughly I associate the analog aesthetic with intentional found-footage horror. If the YouTube comments were anything to go by, I’m not the only one.

Drix

On the topic of older forms of recording things for modern works: I go to a lot of local metal and punk shows, all different kinds of genres. Death metal, Doom metal, Sludge, dungeon synth, noise bands, skate punk, etc. One of the many commonalities between them is the presence of cassette releases. I think mainly because of the cost of production is fairly low, but I think a good chunk of it has to do with the nostalgic feel of them. For reference, I'm in my mid twenties. A lot of the bands I see are around the same age, so we might have childhood memories of this stuff, but it quickly got left behind in the wake of cds and eventually streaming. Nevertheless, I've seen artists of all kinds of genres putting their music on these little bits of analog tech. Hell, I've even gone out of my way to get a tape player so I can start collecting some myself. Even the local music section at the closest record store usually has a few cassettes on sale. There's even a local record label Crucial Blast (shameless plug https://www.crucialblast.net/) that will put on pop up "VHS Expos" where VHS collectors, popcorn carts, video game collectors, and the record label all rub shoulders(I saw not one but two copies of T.E.D Klein's Dark Gods anthology at one of these!) . All this disjointed rambling to say that I think in today's hyper-connected world of on demand streaming, where everything is handheld or on a screen, there's a burgeoning interest in using older, physical media for creative endeavors. There's intrinsic value in having something you can listen to or watch without the internet access many of us take for granted every day. It's also just a whole different vibe from the digital word.

It's a Ghost.

I think perhaps my reaction to Ray Bradbury is the same as a lot of other authors I've read—I like some of his stories and others not as much. Like "The Emissary" was great and so was the short story "The October Game," and I thought "Fahrenheit 451" was fantastic; but on the other hand I read "The Martian Chronicles" a few years ago for the first time, which was as a 39-year-old, and while a couple of the chapters/stories I thought were absolutely fantastic, I more than once thought, "You've got to be kidding me, Ray!" I mainly thought this when I came across the misogynistic parts, which is really my main beef with Ray. He was an amazing visionary when it came to technology but I feel like he definitely lacked imagination when it came to social roles of men and women.

Pete Williams

I had a similar experience watching John Carpenter's The Thing. For years I had it on grainy VHS recorded off Channel 4 when they ran some kind of alien week in the late 90s. It lost a little something when I bought the DVD. I eventually got to see it in 4k on the big screen and while the practical effects were still outstanding it did lose a little of the vibe. It's still one of my favourite movies, though.

Jim Cannon

Those songs weren't creepy. They were nakedly aggressive and threatening! So disappointed in Ms. Amos.

Bret Kramer

Is it true that menacing Tori Amos and Lying Vincent Price collaborated on some sort of project? There are rumors!

Derek Scott

When is this bizarro universe Tori Amos record going to hit and will Pitch Black Manor be the backing band?

The Lonely Sand Person

Twice now you've mentioned that the next episode is The Birds, and both times my reflex thought was, "Wait, we're covering Aristophanes??" followed an instant later by, "No, dummy, the Hitchcock one."

Christine M

Chris! I feel like I might have been the one to recommend Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, but I can't find any evidence of it, so I might just be a phony. To redeem myself, let me make sure you know there are several other books in Priestley's series, and my favorite is Tales of Terror from the Black Ship.

Long time hater

On setting up a Haunted House Chris, I went to one in China that was essentially an empty space turned into a maze by hanging tarps with hardly any lighting. We were asked how scary we wanted it, of course chosing 'very very scary' which then subjected us to about 4 minutes of working through the maze while a guy in a mask poked through the gaps in the tarps and essentially just beat the shit out of us. If you go down this road Chris, I suggest getting insurance.

Andrew M. Reichart

the creepiest part is that unnameable transformation of Tori Amos’s voice

David Halstead

As a kid in the 90s, VHS tapes were a big part of how I consumed media growing up. I still have a collection of tapes, which I add to occasionally from ebay and thrift store hunts. It's fun and unexpected for me seeing how that gets recreated in media now, especially with horror. The recent Alien: Romulus movie even has a VHS release you can get. It's hard to imagine, but there must be something in media today that will be recreated 30 years from now.

Beanz

Wait, DID YOU COVER THE HALLOWEEN TREE??? Or did I misunderstand the comment?