New Horror 2023 – Day 12

“People who live indoors always remind me of something peeled and skinless.”

“The Man Who Went Too Far” by E.F. Benson (1912)

This is going to be the funniest title I come across this month. An alternative title is: “The Man Who Was Extra.”

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“You’re my favorite girl, but you’re still a rotten detective!”

“The Living Ghost” by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

I had a note next to this story asking “superhero who’s a zombie???” because they reference this character appearing again in later issues, but it seems to straight up be a comic series following a villain who is a spawn of satan. Though he’s not an especially clever spawn.

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“I was hungry for you for as long as I could have you.”

The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Mostly an excuse to watch Celeste Yarnall vamp it up with other attractive actors, but that final sequence is great. And I like what the director has to say.

I’m very tired of the whole tradition in western art in which women are always presented nude and men aren’t. I’m not going to dress women and undress men – that would be a form of tortured vengeance. But I certainly am going to undress men, and the result is probably a more healthy environment, because one group of people presenting another in a vulnerable, weaker, more servile position is always distorted.

From “Women in Horror Month: Stephanie Rothman, The Feminist Queen of Exploitation Cinema”