Crazy-ass cat shit sucks. I have three cats (Lenore, Annabel Lee, and Ligeia) and kitten #2 (i.e., Annabel Lee) loves to come bother me when I am sleeping and she is bored. She lays on my head and nuzzles my face and, if I do not wake up and provide affection to her specifications, she bites me.
"The Wendigo" is BRILLIANT! I love Blackwood and that story creeped the HELL out of me. I believe it was also a major inspiration for King's "Pet Semetary."
I think a lot of contemporary reader/scholars have a narrow view of what constitutes "horror." A great deal of Harlan Ellison (especially his collection "Deathbird Stories") really scares me. Same with Shirley Jackson: especially "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." When I was a college freshman I made the mistake of reading Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and "The Whisperer in Darkness" alone in a dorm room while my roommate was out at a club; she came home to find all the lights on and me sitting wide-eyed on my bed! I will concur that these are not "horror" in the same way that the never-ending "Saw" franchise is (for example), but are really deeply psychologically and mentally disturbing narratives. By the same token, I would not exactly call your work "horror," yet I would say that it possesses uncomfortable resonances that challenge the stereotypical genre idea of "horror."
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Date: 2011-10-02 08:22 am (UTC)"The Wendigo" is BRILLIANT! I love Blackwood and that story creeped the HELL out of me. I believe it was also a major inspiration for King's "Pet Semetary."
I think a lot of contemporary reader/scholars have a narrow view of what constitutes "horror." A great deal of Harlan Ellison (especially his collection "Deathbird Stories") really scares me. Same with Shirley Jackson: especially "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." When I was a college freshman I made the mistake of reading Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and "The Whisperer in Darkness" alone in a dorm room while my roommate was out at a club; she came home to find all the lights on and me sitting wide-eyed on my bed! I will concur that these are not "horror" in the same way that the never-ending "Saw" franchise is (for example), but are really deeply psychologically and mentally disturbing narratives. By the same token, I would not exactly call your work "horror," yet I would say that it possesses uncomfortable resonances that challenge the stereotypical genre idea of "horror."
(Yes, I use many quotation marks as well!)