When I was a kid, I used to spend many hot summer nights sleeping in the attic at my grandparents’ house. It was a small and chilly place with an old tv, filled to the brim with dusty old books. At night tree branchers would creep behind the windows. If the nights were windy, they would knock on the window, mimicking how a stranger could be knocking at the front door.

While in the attic, since nobody would control what I was doing, I used to watch re-airings of horror movies. Here I first saw ”The Thing”, ”Misery” and ”The Evil Dead”, just to name a few.

In the stack of books, I found and used to read a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories called “At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels”. At the time, I did not understand how important these stories were to the horror genre.

Sadly, I do not possess the book anymore after it got destroyed in a house fire. Coincidence? Yet, the bigger mystery is how that book ended up in my grandparents’ attic in the first place? There was no way my, for example, religious grandmother that did not speak in English would have bought a book like that.

As you can tell, horror, sensitive topics, and dark themes are close and dear to my heart.

Yet, nowadays, you are not allowed to talk about H.P. Lovecraft without being branded a racist. And… Not to make this into a never-ending list, if you show, mention, write, speak, etc. about content relating to horror, mental health, or other “sensitive” topics, you might get banned or canceled on different platforms like Youtube, Twitch.

Other content creators like Ragnarrox have posted videos explaining how these practices are harmful to the horror community.

Currently, I want to start small by continuing what I already started on my “A Taste of Madness” publication by writing horror game reviews and sharing my game design projects.

As I get back on this roller-coaster, I will start upgrading both the quality and quantity of the content:

• Rather than sticking to blog post writing, I will introduce new forms of content delivery systems like podcasting and Let’s play streaming.
• Rather than just writing about horror video games, I will expand my list of topics to like taking care of your mental health, different mediums of horror like movies and books, etc.
• I will, based on your recommendations, update the website’s functionality to support the growth of our community.

I would appreciate it if you would become a monthly donor to darkfolklore.com and the content that I create.

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