Horror is fun
Writing my new story for several hours today. Also listened to another excellent short story The Inner Room by Robert Aickman, and then went for a walk up and around the golf course on Hollingbury Hill. The Inner Room a chiller about an evil doll's house that becomes real. Gorse beginning to flower up there while listening. Walking on the edge of the sloping meadow east of the golf course, and a long haired boy walking along in the other direction strumming his guitar who did not look at me. We were the only people visible, and it was one of those oddly dreamlike moments that crop up out of nowhere. Lorraine had a parent's evening tonight, and so was late. I started reading The Case Against Satan , an exorcism novel written in the sixties by Ray Russell, some ten years before The Exorcist . However you only have to look at the news these days much worse horror stories. The imminent extinction of insects being just one of them. Compared to that, horror is fun. ...