New Horror 2023 – Day 4

“The policemen who arrived on the scene found only cotton wool.”

“The Time Remaining” by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

We imbue objects with a power that we sometimes can’t take back, and I love when a story explores that. But then I’m the guy fixated on doll and dummy horror and who recently visited the only ventriloquist dummy museum in the world. So if that kinda stuff terrifies you, this story’s for you.

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“Now you listen to me, you lousy tuna sandwich!”

“Good Ol’ Fashioned Vanilla” by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

This is horror in the way some stories from Tales from the Crypt are horror. Which is, not really. It’s doesn’t even have a comeuppance. Ice Cream Man appealed to me as an anthology series but I recall the last issue being pretty light on the horror as well, so maybe I’ll skip these going forward. But, the particular story in this issue was neat in that Heavy Metal sort of way, just wacky space fantasy shenanigans.

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“You’re ruining our time together.”

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

This is not what you think it’s going to be. Ask yourself, do you need to know?

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“Unfortunately, everybody’s home this evening.”

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Yeah I can see why this hit and spawned a series. Controls feel great, looks good for the vintage, and that music is tops. It takes the beefy Conan the Barbarian type and throws him into a castle full of monsters, what’s not to love? The scariest creature by far is the little guy who hops around.