Writing horror with Jon David Guerra, Paul Storrie, and Dave Carter.

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It’s a Halloween-themed episode with a talk on what characterizes a scary story, and we’ve got a full roundtable of people well-suited for the job! I’m joined by Jon David Guerra, Paul Storrie, and Dave Carter, who help to draw the line between “disturbing” and “frightening,” and how telling a story visually presents a unique challenge when creating scary stories.

We close, as always, with a bunch of great comics recommendations when we’re joined by Erin Helmrich of the Ann Arbor District Library.

Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):

* RL Stine video on what makes a scary story

* The Saturday Supercast Halloween specials, Part 1 | Part 2

* Dr. Zaius

* It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

* Ben Cooper Costumes

* Zatara

* The William Shatner Mask is Michael Myers’ mask!

* The Steve Miller “Spider” mask

* The Jump Scare

* Horror Manga

* The Woman in Black

* Resident Evil

* H.P. Lovecraft

* Invasion of The Bodysnatchers

* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

* The Horror, Etc. Podcast

* The Ring

* Jon Lovitz as the Devil

* Parents

* Buffy the Vampire Slayer

* The Mist

* Titanic

* John Carpenter

* Soylent Green

* Planet of The Apes

* Werewolf by Night

* The Shining

* Twisted Journeys

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