“The Dead Wagon” by Greye La Spina (1927)
“This cart carries a gruesome load; it is piled high with bodies.”
These older horror stories all try and bring things to as neat a resolution as a story about spirits and death can manage. There must always be a hero, or a redeeming quality to give the reader some hope. I can appreciate that, but modern literature has really burned me on these notions. The messy or unresolved ending just hits the spot.
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“The Harvest” by Shannon Campbell & Pam Wishbow (2016)
“Just think of blackberry jam."
Oh fuck yeah, that autumnal folk horror. Much of this sort of thing comes out of places with traditional seasons but I love that this anthology is all about horror from the Pacific Northwest, so here you can feel the gray gloom and green hells of those thickly forested areas. This particular story also gets into the insidious and unknowable machinations of plants. Who knows what they’re thinking…
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The Uninvited dir. Lewis Allen (1944)
"But it isn’t fair to hate a house because someone’s died there.”
The randomizer threw a lot of older movies at me early on. This particular one seems to get a lot of praise but I didn’t quite see it, as it takes time to get to the spooky. The vibe is mostly lighthearted until some supernatural family drama near the end and it’s just not enough to make it work.