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.

I previously made a publication on medium.com called “A Taste of Madness” to dabble with content creation surrounding horror. We can argue about how successful it was, but I did enjoy it. Yet, for the last couple of years, I had to stop this venture to defend both my Bachelor and Master thesis.

At first, I thought that all the hype that I created on Medium would disappear, but I was happily surprised that people still kept reading, liking, following, and sometimes even commenting on my posts.

On the other hand, every time I thought of or looked at my publication, I would feel bad for not being able to work on it more. I believed that the people who followed me deserved to hear from me again. That because of those people, the publication should be kept alive by force… Like Frankenstein…

That is why I am creating darkfolklore.com. I want to continue working on the community that I was starting to build on my publication, and I want this site to function as a place where content relating to horror might exist and even thrive.

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.