Deconstructing horror


When horror is brought up in discussion, people invariably think of the heavy hitters. Games like the FNAF series, movies like Halloween, or even some entries from the recently popular analog horror subgenre like The Walten Files. Each of these are scary in their own way, but why?

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A cold day and a hot fire


On October 27th, the last day before a long weekend, the clock ticked down, the air was still, and the students were getting restless. It was a fifth period like any other, until the sound of a fire alarm cut through the noise like a knife through butter.

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Self diagnosed with ignorance 


With so much information being readily available at a moment’s notice, it’s not surprising that everyone thinks they’ve got a degree in psychology. More and more frequently people have taken it upon themselves to diagnose themselves with all sorts of disorders based on a handful of symptoms, but as any psychology student will tell you, correlation does not equal causation.

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