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  • Book Therapy: Peter Counter’s Be Scared of Everything
    Book Therapy: Peter Counter’s Be Scared of Everything
    October 31, 2020

    Book Therapy: Peter Counter’s Be Scared of Everything

     “Life is all we have and, because we can’t contrast our experience with its absence, its value is unknowable. That’s what makes life a horror show.”—Peter Counter, Be Scared of Everything Lately ...

  • “It Happened to a Friend of a Friend of Mine:” What I Learned from Serialized Horror
    “It Happened to a Friend of a Friend of Mine:” What I Learned from Serialized Horror
    January 10, 2020

    “It Happened to a Friend of a Friend of Mine:” What I Learned from Serialized Horror

    You’ve heard this tale before. It’s the one about the hook hand, a lone accessory on the car door of an unsuspecting couple. Or better yet, it’s the call that the babysitter finds out is coming ...

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