Archive - Behind Your Face, There is a Place

Fears of a Clown, Thalassaphobia, and a Bit More

My hottest horror take is still comfortably room temperature

Jul 26, 2023 •

Raylan's Hat: Elmore Leonard and 'Justified'

“You know, you don’t always have to wear the hat,” Elmore Leonard once said to Timothy Olyphant, per an interview that the Justified star did with The…

Jul 19, 2023 •

PODCAST: A Fear of Heights, and of Writing About My Fears

Jul 17, 2023 •

A Fear of Heights, and of Writing About my Fears

Possibly not for the reason you think

Jul 12, 2023 •

Bloody Mary Lived in a House that Lived in My Dreams

Confessions of a Fearphile

Jul 5, 2023 •

June 2023

Hurricane Elena, A Lady Called Camille, and Grafting “Super” to the Natural

I had my first and only real experience with a hurricane when I was barely six years old.

Jun 28, 2023 •

December 2019

Confessions of a Fearphile: Ringu / The Ring

I'd heard of Ringu shortly after it came out in Japan, well before it was made properly available in the United States, before the American remake had…

Dec 14, 2019 •

February 2019

Confessions of a Fearphile: The Alien

I never knew the creature as the "xenomorph", despite having seen Aliens--the movie where the term xenomorph was first used--before seeing Alien. My…

Feb 8, 2019 •

November 2015

Confessions of a Fearphile: Candyman

Have you ever seen something that you believed only you could see?

Nov 2, 2015 •

January 2015

Confessions of a Fearphile: 'Shudders'

I think I'm still too young to be using phrases like, 'They don't make them like they used to." Given that I don't have kids of my own and don't read…

Jan 22, 2015 •

Confessions of a Fearphile: Simon's Soul by Stanley Shaprio

It took a while for me to realize that the things that scared me most were products of my imagination.

Jan 19, 2015 •

November 2014

Choose Your Own End, er, Adventure - R.I.P. R.A. Montgomery

My intent isn't to be reductive or morbid here, but with the unfortunate recent death of R.A.

Nov 15, 2014 •

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