Oh god, Fatal Frame.  The Blinded Demon battles were the most draining I think I've had while playing a video game.  Don't want to fight this terrifying ghost?  Too bad, you're going to do it in a closet with a pillar in the middle of it!

Oh god, Fatal Frame.  The Blinded Demon battles were the most draining I think I've had while playing a video game.  Don't want to fight this terrifying ghost?  Too bad, you're going to do it in a closet with a pillar in the middle of it!

If I recall correctly (and perhaps I don't) the Scary Stories themselves were pretty scattershot.  You'd have the Mexican Sewer Rat story, and a story about a girl raised by wolves and then an random humor story and a story about someone eating a toe they found in the woods (like you do) and then…

If I recall correctly (and perhaps I don't) the Scary Stories themselves were pretty scattershot.  You'd have the Mexican Sewer Rat story, and a story about a girl raised by wolves and then an random humor story and a story about someone eating a toe they found in the woods (like you do) and then…

Whoops, responded to the wrong spot.  See above. Yeah, there was an follow up blog to Ted by someone else, although I don't know that I'd consider it a plagiarism. It wasn't copy-pasted and it linked to the original. More like a fanfiction.

Whoops, responded to the wrong spot.  See above. Yeah, there was an follow up blog to Ted by someone else, although I don't know that I'd consider it a plagiarism. It wasn't copy-pasted and it linked to the original. More like a fanfiction.

There's a short story called "Fear of Darkness" by Thomas Lera that has 90% identical text.

There's a short story called "Fear of Darkness" by Thomas Lera that has 90% identical text.

I love that so much.  Sometimes you can just tell from the first paragraph that a book is going to be amazing and Hill House is such a classic example of that.

I love that so much.  Sometimes you can just tell from the first paragraph that a book is going to be amazing and Hill House is such a classic example of that.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault!  That one is messed up.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault!  That one is messed up.

I have cats, but that's only conditionally helpful.  One's a loudmouthed dope so I can tell if someone's around by how loud he is, but they like to do the traditional cat "sit up abruptly and stare at nothing".  So then I sit up abruptly and stare at nothing trying to see something.  At which point the three of us…

I have cats, but that's only conditionally helpful.  One's a loudmouthed dope so I can tell if someone's around by how loud he is, but they like to do the traditional cat "sit up abruptly and stare at nothing".  So then I sit up abruptly and stare at nothing trying to see something.  At which point the three of us…

You think that's bad, try reading some of his contemporaries.  The
Wendigo filled me with the terror of becoming a moss-eating spirit of
untamed wilderness.

You think that's bad, try reading some of his contemporaries.  The
Wendigo filled me with the terror of becoming a moss-eating spirit of
untamed wilderness.

I haven't read Hell House, but I always classified The Haunting of Hill House and The Shining as less "The are ghosts in this house" and more "The house itself has gone seriously fucking wrong".  For some reason, having the house itself be the supernatural object just made the whole reading experience that much…

I haven't read Hell House, but I always classified The Haunting of Hill House and The Shining as less "The are ghosts in this house" and more "The house itself has gone seriously fucking wrong".  For some reason, having the house itself be the supernatural object just made the whole reading experience that much…

The scarecrow walks all over their roof the night before it murders one of them too.  Just so you could lie in bed at night and stare at the ceiling and listen to the house creak and wonder if there's a scarecrow up there oh god no

The scarecrow walks all over their roof the night before it murders one of them too.  Just so you could lie in bed at night and stare at the ceiling and listen to the house creak and wonder if there's a scarecrow up there oh god no