Character and subtext in horror

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2018


The Haunting of Hill House is masterfully done horror with humanity

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In the movie “The Innkeepers”, two clerks in an allegedly haunted hotel work on the last night before the place closes down. They ...






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FEATURED COMIC --> Hacking Human

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2018



Hacking Human has such an intriguing title doesn't it? Selena is a thief, a very clever and sexy one that works with computers and wears a skin tight black catsuit. Her partner is a disembodied floating head named Heinrich, he just happens to be a ghost. Together they make ...

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Questioning Rumpelstiltskin's Motives

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2018



As children, we are more open and willing to believe the things that are presented to us as facts. We don't even question the validity of some statements, just take them as truths because that is the way it is.

One example of this was when I was sitting ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> Faded Garden

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 15, 2018



There are two races in this world that are set up like a chess board. There are the Firmissimam (white), descendants of the human race, who are least affected by the distortion. Then there are the Contaminavit (black) who were fully affected by the distortion, which causes their souls to ...

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Art and Propaganda

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 21, 2018


Soviet poster advocating atheism and science over religion

From the most ancient times, art has always been used by the ruling classes for purposes of propaganda, to propagate certain ideas about those commissioning it and their purposes: that kings are mighty, that regimes are for ever, that the enemy is ...


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Drawing the Line

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 14, 2018




We live in a world that can be exceedingly beautiful or appallingly harsh, and everything in between. And as art reflects one's experiences, emotions and questions about this world, it's unavoidable that both the themes of amazing beauty and the themes of absolute terror, disgust and horror will ...


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FEATURED COMIC --> Children of the Gods

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 11, 2018



What happens when ordinary people suddenly become massively super-powered, possessed of abilities well outside of the dreams of any normal person? Comics tell us they become either super heroes or super villains, this comic looks at it another way… They become gods. Or at least that's how they think ...

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FEATURED COMIC --> Android Shenanigans

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 20, 2018



This comic is set during the early days of androids being introduced to society. The comic draws parallels from the Greek story of Prometheus as it is the same name of the head android engineer, and Zeus is a multi-billionaire big shot who is also a major shareholder of the ...

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Bookends

Banes at 12:00AM, May 31, 2018

A story can be strengthened by coordinating the first and final images in some way.

It's not a hard and fast rule; it's not a rule at all. But it can be worth trying out in your writing!

The movie Halloween (there it is! I had to start ...



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