everyday is halloween

but even more so every day is a course of survival in the ordinary madness of our everday lives.  & i'm delighted in knowing that there are a great many more artists & writers who, like me, love horror.  movies, music, books, ephemera etc etc.  i don't claim i am unique in my obsessions whether it be poetry or bloody so bad it's good horror movies.  but now there is a new lit. journal dedicated to my beloved genre of horror.

cul-de-sac of blood

founded by poet/editors gina myers & jeff t. johnson they publish poetry, essays, fiction & a weekly movie review all steeped in what johnson calls horror poetics.

why horror?  i've been asking myself that all my life.  but, as i've written & said about the object/subject of our love sometimes it is to be.  perhaps horror is something about survival too.  even if we experience 'danger' in the safe space of a movie theater, or at home, we learn that whatever is thrown at us, or we are thrust into, we can come out the other side.  as robert frost wrote, the best way out is always thru.  for me horror is the thrill ride & an object of survival.  & ofttimes, horror is plain ass cheesy fun.  

boo!