a child, I remember one of my favorite months of the year was exactly the October.
Thinking about the opportunity to wear a skull mask -I am a fan of skulls! - or Friday 13, but that my mother was washing it away, was already reason to await the arrival that time of year.
That is because there was a justification to go over the side of evil and playing around with the forces of darkness.
All this under the aegis of: is Halloween! No problem!
be honest, if there is something that attracts me to the religion, is precisely the knowledge that there is a duality, and hence, on the other side of good, there is a battalion of evil and demonic forces that constantly tries to turn the scale.
therefore not surprising that my favorite part of the Bible was the Book of Revelation. Think about that final confrontation between heaven and hell is more righteous thing that can be traversed in the head to a 6 year old!
Thus, over time, I was forgetting the Revelation of St. John, to discover that within the world of literature, there was a small section devoted to horror- all the negative spectrum of the universe , resulting then attention away my interest in these works fully. Feeling that
feeling of awe, fear, anguish, helplessness before the inexplicable, hidden, that which lies beyond human comprehension and that is crushing them, is simply incomparable delight.
is like knowing that if you eat something, you will do harm, much harm, and yet still run the risk and you get stuck till we dropped.
So it is with horror.
Each reading takes you more and more into despair, the gloom, this abnormal state, in this insane pleasure. Although in the end, you know that it is a pleasant addiction.
Since then, the reading chart my path has been very simple, author took me to another author and so on.
all began with some stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to go through later by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, MR James, Arthur Machen, Robert W. Chambers, Algernoon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany, finally ending with Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Anne Rice, Nicolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mary Shelley, August Derleth, Lin Carter, Henry Kutter, Stephen King, Robert E. Howard, John W. Campbell, Clive Barker and Ramsey Campbell.
months ago I do not read anything new. Although, why read something new, when there is a world of stories for reading of the masters of terror nineteenth and twentieth century?
say I like the idea of \u200b\u200b read "Twilight" would betray my drawer writers, go! Who the hell is interested in effeminate vampires that sparkle in the sunlight?
honestly say, not me!
This post is intended to remind me that every year at this time I have a habit of re-read a fine selection of stories which I have more marked and more I've enjoyed in my life. Coupled with this, it normally also see a horror movie series that follow the above parameters.
Before concluding, and recalling the title of this post, This October I spend a number of entrances to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, one of my favorite authors cutting literature of science fiction and horror.
For years I have been reading their works, their precursors, their supporters, in short, all that remains is for some reason or influence by this author.
I find it amazing how Lovecraft's work is so important in the horror genre, I find it amazing how their "myths" remain valid today.
This is the prelude to a series of posts dedicated to my favorite month of the year: October!
is the preamble also, a series of posts dedicated to horror, in literature, in movies, graphic novels, his ninth art.
mask speaks to me, screaming to get out of the box, calling his position the mask, the mask is in place.
Greetings,
Mr.KARATE
- Black Belt
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