Greetings mortals! I've ironically reached a crossroads in my life. If you've been following along from the crypts, you know I've embarked on a second website and various platform presences called Brent's Crossroads. This endeavor focuses on my love of travel, cruising, and Disney to keep it separate from what I do here. The drawback …
Is it scary? Do you like scary movies? Welcome to Our Darkest Fears, the home for my dark fiction and all things that go bump in the night. On a recent trip to Seattle, I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Pop Culture. MOPC is one of the best museums I've toured. The …
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Image Copyright Netflix 2025 Welcome back to the darkness under your stairs. I admit that I often fall behind in catching new horror films in theaters. I'm still trying to make the drive-in for the Sinners and Final Destination: Bloodlines double feature, but circumstances haven't been helping me. Over the Memorial Day weekend, however, Netflix …
These are wild times, my friends. The real horrors make the fictional horrors seem tame by comparison, but hopefully, we will navigate through the BS together. Speaking of some serious BS... Recently, it has come to everyone's attention that Meta, OpenAI, and even Microsoft have been accused of pirating books to train their AI models. …
I know some of you are wondering what the hell is going on in here. You thought this was a site dedicated to my writing and the horror genre. Well, this is one of those times when my other side ventures into this dark corner of the universe. The picture shows a very happy me …
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Today, I'm taking a different angle with the article. Believe me, I'd much rather be here talking about how I finally watched Trap and Oddity, but I've become increasingly alarmed by aspects of my socials. I'm more afraid of the people online than I am the clown I'm with in the picture. The general interaction …
Welcome back to the horror, my friends! Now that 2025 is in full swing, I've thought about what horror films I'm looking forward to this year. I was surprised by the number of sequels I want to see out of the list. So, I came up with a list of the thirteen horror films I …
The king is dead. All hail the king. Horror was king in the 80s and even into the early 90s. I grew up in the golden days of the slasher flicks that acted as morality plays. The best part of these movies was the evil antagonists they produced. Can you imagine horror today without the …
I hear this question from people at work and other places all the time. It will come up when they tell me they liked the book, but it was messed up, and they couldn't believe I wrote something like the book they read. So, on occasion, I will answer the question. What do I answer? …
Greetings, horror hounds! It is colder than the research station in John Carpenter's The Thing, but winter will hopefully go by quickly. Today, I want to reflect on my 2024 as a writer. There have been some ups and downs, but it wasn't too bad overall. It was a busy year, but much work still …
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