Dark Alcoves: the Horror of C.F. Page

“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.” 

Small Town Horror reads like a spiritual successor to Come With Me, in the sense that it’s a crime thriller/murder mystery rather than a supernatural horror (but—like Come With Me—there is a smidge of horror, a smidge of supernaturality), and has plenty of what seems to be autographical elements. Keyword: seems. Unlike Come With Me, Small Town Horror subtly fortifies itself with the slasher genre, perhaps even a supernatural slasher—i.e., there’s a revenge component interwoven into the mystery.

The Strange is a novel (the first novel, in fact) by Nathan Ballingrud, who’s most known for his debut collection North American Lake Monsters, which Hulu’s TV series Monsterland was very loosely based on, and Wounds, which got another Hulu exclusive—this time a film—starring Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson.

No One Came For Me is a bleak, poetic, angsty, edgy, raw collection of short stories that the author describes as “weird and primal.” It's got six reviews on Goodreads, zero reviews on Amazon (till just today: mine), and you have to dig really, really hard to find an affordable copy of the paperback). This collection, despite its relative unknownness, is fantastic.

Question 1: What was the initial catalyst—whether that be a short story, a novel, a film, a video game, an event—that made you want to be a writer?

1] The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King

Question 1: What was the initial catalyst—whether that be a short story, a novel, a film, a video game, an event—that made you want to be a writer?

Question 1: What was the initial catalyst—whether that be a short story, a novel, a film, a video game, an event—that made you want to be a writer?

Last Days is about a guerrilla filmmaker named Kyle Freeman, who gets hired by a wealthy, new age spiritualism-type producer named Max Solomon (whom I can’t help but imagine being played by Toby Jones) to make a documentary about a very famous death cult from the 70s. Kyle is skeptical about doing a documentary on an event that’s been done to death by Hollywood; he’s more of an independent thinker, someone who follows his interests—but he’s got a lot of debt. So, sure, what could go wrong?

Question 1: What was the initial catalyst—whether that be a short story, a novel, a film, a video game, an event—that made you want to be a writer?

Question 1: What was the initial catalyst—whether that be a short story, a novel, a film, a video game, an event—that made you want to be a writer?