At the start of John Schlesinger’s 1987 horror film The Believers, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is having a quiet morning with his wife and child. Within minutes, a malfunctioning coffee maker electrocutes his wife, boiling her insides as she stands tremoring from the shocks. It has nothing to do with the rest of

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Harionago (針女子), also known as Harionna ( 針女) is a very dangerous yōkai that wanders darkened streets, alleyways, and roads at night, looking for unsuspecting victims to attack. It is unknown if the Harionago is a single entity that roams all of Japan, or if multiple spirits become Harionago, but in every recorded incident of

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Hey everyone, Joe here and today I want to talk about podcasts. More specifically, audio-drama horror podcasts. So, what makes a horror audio-drama podcast special? Or, maybe I can make my point with another question: What makes a horror movie special? Here I will share some recommendations for horror podcasts! Horror movies are generally known

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Gōjin Ishihara is a Showa-period Japanese artist who did ghastly illustrations of yokai in Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters (1972) with a mastery of Indian ink for comic-esque vibrancy in absolutely mesmerizing scenes of chaos. Additionally, the artist offered his talent within many other educational books on monsters, and later produced weird fiction with strong

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