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A lot of people think that horror just isn't for them. It's an understandable feeling since a lot of the most visible horror media is fairly homogeneous, and if you don't like that kind of stuff then it's easy to think you won't like any horror at all. But the truth is, horror is a wide range of different things. The following culture recommendations are designed to show just how many forms horror can take. Hopefully, you'll find at least one thing you'll love.
A lot of people think that horror just isn't for them. It's an understandable feeling since a lot of the most visible horror media is fairly homogeneous, and if you don't like that kind of stuff then it's easy to think you won't like any horror at all. But the truth is, horror is a wide range of different things. The following culture recommendations are designed to show just how many forms horror can take. Hopefully, you'll find at least one thing you'll love.
The works of Louise Bourgeois depict strange furniture displayed in cages, severed body parts arranged in geometric designs, and totemic people made of fabric. However, by far her most popular work is Maman, a massive 30-foot-tall spider made of black steel, holding a sac of white marble eggs.
Read MoreThey played fast, driving songs with lyrics ripped from schlocky B-grade horror flicks, and they dressed like gothic greasers with their hair all slicked forward to a point (a style called 'the devilock' that thankfully never caught on). This was Misfits, and they are the originators of horror punk.
Read MoreCan you trust your friends? When your bud invites you for a night out, are you sure he's not actually a crazed sorcerer, or a mad scientist, or even a merman leading you to your doom? Well, Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game where these are all legitimate fears.
Read MorePrescription drug abuse has gotten so bad that the CDC has labeled it an epidemic. As a result communities that thought they would never have to deal with widespread drug problems are learning that people struggling with drug addiction don't all look like stereotypical junkies. They can look like your neighbors as well.
Read MoreBullied kids are the subjects of countless horror tales. Ever since Carrie debuted in 1978, writers have employed the tormented outcast as a monster that is both frightening and yet sympathetic.
Read MoreWhenever a list of 'the best horror comics' comes up, you can bet Black Hole will be on that list. Released over a period of ten years, this twelve-issue series seems to touch a nerve with a lot of people who tend to read comics.
Read More"Something was pouring from his mouth. He examined his sleeve. Blood? Blood. Crimson, copper-smelling blood, his blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick."
This line kicks off Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a British horror comedy series and parody of both Stephen King and low-budget 80s TV shows.
Read MoreEvery family has a secret. The one that no one wants to talk about, but it's still always there, causing tension. Ruining dinner. Slowly eating away at the back of everyone's mind. Set in a declining Rust Belt town, My Father's Long, Long Legs is about a family with an especially strange secret.
Read MoreFrancisco Goya, Spain's preeminent artist of the early 19th century, often produced paintings that reflected what was going on in Spain at the time. In 1819 Goya was old, recovering from serious illness, and pessimistic about the future of his country. These factors lead him to take the pleasant rural landscape murals painted on the walls of his home, douse them in dark ink, and cover them with the Black Paintings.
Read MoreWe've all met one of those guys who seems to have a problem with women. The guy who talks about women like they're a completely different species, unable to relate to them as human beings but instead as things to be desired.
Read MoreWith technology now a near-inescapable part of most people's lives, you had to know horror movies were going to start looking at the ways all of these amazing gadgets might rob us of our humanity. Would you believe that one of the best horror films about technology comes from the distant year of 2001?
Read MoreThe best gaming articles you'll find this side of the Mississippi. Considering the Mississippi does not bisect the planet, we have the best best gaming articles on the planet. Can't vouch for Saturn though, their writers are pretty good.
