What with Little Terrors, Dark But Shining, M Valdemar, The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire, Infocult, Laylasweetie, Dracula Blogged, and all the other horrorblogs I’ve suddenly stumbled across, I thought now would be as good a time as any to point out that even before The Outbreak, I was something of a horrorblogger myself, sometimes quite intensely so.
While a quick Google search through the site for the term “horror” is as good a piece of evidence of this as any, my finest horrorblogging moment–well, less a moment than a month–was my October 2003 project Where the Monsters Go, a month-long horror blogathon. Presented below for your perusal are links to all the WtMG posts I did, from the initial posts in which I sketched out my broad feelings and specific theories about the genre (including those presented in my senior thesis from Yale) as well as explained the reasoning behind the project itself, to the big climax, The 13 Days of Halloween, during which I watched and reviewed the 13 scariest movies I ever seen. (Everyone diggin’ on that grammatical shout-out to Large Marge?) I really enjoy digging these posts up (pun certainly intended) and re-reading them every now and then; hopefully you will too. Consider them my contribution to this nascent (to me, at least) horror blogosphere.
(The only caveat is that the frequently promised links to PDFs of various horror-focused papers I wrote while in college are all down; I’ll try and come up with a solution to this soon, but it’ll probably take a while. I promise you they all got As.)
(UPDATE: And they’re up! You’ll now be able to access all of my horror paper PDFs through the links you find in all the original posts below; you can also find a handy index of them here.)
One last thing before I leave you to the links: I was reading this Laylasweetie post when I got hit with the hugest attack of deja vu. And then I read this Haunted Vampire post about that Laylasweetie post and got hit with it again. To quote my beloved Lost Highway, this is some seriously spooky shit, sir.
And now, the monsters.
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10-1-2003: Where the Monsters Go: October is Horror Month at ADDTF
10-2-2003: Where the Monsters Go: The Things That Should Not Be (and yeah, I fixed the link)
10-2-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Scary Blogsters
10-3-2003: Where the Monsters Go: The Things That Should Not Be HTMLified
10-4-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “I don’t read horror comics”
10-5-2003: Where the Monsters Go: unfunnybooks
10-6-2003: Where the Monsters Go: I Will Be
10-7-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Scary Blogsters II
10-8-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Time
10-9-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Triple Double
10-10-2003: Where the Monsters Go: On with the Show
10-10-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Blood Feasts
10-11-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Game over
10-12-2003: Where the Monsters Go: in dreams I stalk with you
10-13-2003: Where the Monsters Go: In the Darkness bind them
10-14-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Paperhouse, or “So it begins”
10-14-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Here, There, and Everywhere
10-14-2003: Where the Monsters Go: IncisionDecision
10-15-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Disembodied brains
10-15-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “You know how things are: Life goes on”
10-16-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “What can we do? What can we do?
10-17-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Things I missed
10-18-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “People die every day”
10-19-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “No… No…“
10-20-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “You’ll simply never understand the true meaning of sacrifice.”
10-21-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “seeking human victims”
10-22-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “We’re all expecting great things”
10-22-2003: Where the Monsters Go: A feature, not a bug
10-23-2003: Where the Monsters Go: They’re all messed up
10-23-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Scottie’s choice
10-23-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “Fuck”
10-25-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Note
10-25-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “Don’t look at me”
10-26-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”
10-26-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Beware of the Blog
10-26-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “they were screaming”
10-27-2003: Where the Monsters Go: feast your eyes
10-27-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “Don’t you understand?”
10-28-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “There’s just some things you have to do. Don’t mean you have to like it.”
10-29-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Later, again
10-29-2003: Where the Monsters Go: When there’s no more room in Hell
10-29-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “There is only one”
10-30-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “You’ve had your whole fucking life to think things over”
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Day of the Dead
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “What music they make!” 1
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: A poem
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “What music they make!” 2
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “Help!”
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “What music they make!” 3
10-31-2003: Where the Monsters Go: “What music they make!” 4
11-3-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Picking up the pieces
11-4-2003: Where the Monsters Go: Requiem
05-15-2005: Where the Monsters Go: Resurrection
05-24-2005: Where the Monsters Go: Infernal words