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etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney
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Garden of Forking Paths
Prefer to listen to this post? My traveling compatriots, I know it has been a wearying year of sites and topics, but we can’t let up now. We’re gonna get super lost today. Maps won’t work. Itineraries will be an illogical mess. Today we’re gonna talk about non-linear horror in a segment called The Garden […]
Continue ReadingPied-à-Terror
Prefer to listen to this post? There is no more important location in horror fiction than the house. The geometry of surfaces that creates an inside where only outside once was, subject to the decay of time like a human body, able to be loved, often to be feared: the haunted house. Tourists, as I […]
Continue ReadingMission Elapsed Time: 20:00:21:06:42:40
This month both my personal blog, Ascent Stage, and my Flickr account turn 20 years old. I’ve gone back through all of it — 862 posts, 30,558 photos. Other than endemic linkrot, an unfortunate smattering of Flash-based content, and services whose embed functions have crapped out (looking at you Flickr video, YouTube, and Google Maps), […]
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