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When the Walls Shouldn’t Be There
In horror fiction, location is everything. From the haunted house to the abandoned asylum, settings shape the fear. But there’s one...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 114 min read
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Coming Halloween 2025: The Sequel to Devoured - The Witch of November
It's taken a few years, but the long-awaited sequel to my award winning novel DEVOURED is finally arriving in 2025. Halloween 2025, in...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 101 min read
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Forgotten Technology: When Obsolete Machines Refuse to Die
In horror fiction, we often see haunted houses, cursed books, and ancient relics. But there’s a chilling subgenre that's just starting to...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 84 min read
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The Horror of Disappearing Roads: When the Path You’re On Vanishes
Horror thrives on uncertainty. The moment you can no longer trust the ground beneath your feet, or the road you’re driving on, the world...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 74 min read
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Forgotten Towns: Horror in the Places That Don’t Exist Anymore
I love abandoned towns in horror. Used it a few times in my own writing. To me, small towns are inherently creepy to begin with, but you...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 64 min read
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Time Loops: When Escaping Isn’t an Option
Time is one of horror’s greatest tools, but when it turns on the characters themselves, the fear deepens. The horror time loop, in which...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 54 min read
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The Horror of Abandoned Amusement Parks: When Joy Becomes Nightmare
There’s something deeply unsettling about an amusement park that’s lost its laughter. Rides rusting in silence, faded signage, and...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 44 min read
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The Horror of Elevators: Why That Ride Between Floors Can Be Terrifying
Elevators: those claustrophobic steel boxes that whisk us between floors in a blink. We trust them, rely on them, but only when we're...
Bryan Alaspa
Aug 14 min read
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The Haunted Hotel Room: Why Room Numbers in Horror Stories Matter
In the world of horror fiction, there’s one setting that continues to pop up across movies, books, and short stories: the creepy hotel....
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 314 min read
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The Horror of the Ventriloquist Dummy: Why Puppets Still Terrify Us
In a genre packed with ghosts, slashers, and monsters, one unexpected icon continues to haunt our dreams: the ventriloquist dummy. These...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 304 min read
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Haunted Highways: The Unseen Horror of America’s Most Cursed Roads
When you think of horror settings, you probably imagine creaking mansions, shadowy forests, or crumbling asylums. But there’s another...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 294 min read
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The Horror of Maps: When Cartography Becomes Terrifying in Fiction
We don’t often think of maps as terrifying. They’re just tools: paper guides, digital GPS assistants, lines and symbols meant to help us...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 284 min read
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The Scariest Horror Stories You’ve Never Heard: Exploring Obscure Urban Legends from Around the World
When most horror fans think of urban legends, a few familiar names rise from the grave—Bloody Mary, Slender Man, the Hookman. But there’s...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 254 min read
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The Forgotten Horror of Weather: How Nature's Fury Inspires Atmospheric Terror in Fiction
Weather terrifies me. It has since I was a kid. Other people talk about how relaxing thunderstorms are, but for me, they were always...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 244 min read
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The Horror of Untranslated Texts: How Language Barriers Can Drive Terror in Fiction
There’s something uniquely unsettling about staring at a book, letter, or inscription written in a language you don’t...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 234 min read
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Crawling Dread: Why Insects Are the Unsung Stars of Horror Fiction
When it comes to horror, we often think of ghosts, vampires, serial killers, or monsters from beyond. But lurking in the corners of our...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 224 min read
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The Horror of Consumption: When Food Becomes the Monster in Horror Fiction
When we think of horror, it's usually images of blood-stained halls, creaking doors, or chilling monsters. But there's a deeply visceral...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 213 min read
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Review: Sinners (2025) — Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic Vampire Epic
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners marks a bold departure from his previous work in Creed and Black Panther , it’s a genre-blending vampire...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 185 min read
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Haunted by Ink: The Weird World of Cursed and Possessed Books in Horror Fiction
There’s something deliciously unsettling about the idea of a book that shouldn’t exist —a tome that whispers from the shelf, that drives...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 174 min read
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The Horror of Rust: How Industrial Decay Became a Terrifying Aesthetic in Horror Fiction
When we picture haunted houses, we often imagine old mansions, rotting Victorian wallpaper, and long-forgotten graveyards. But in modern...
Bryan Alaspa
Jul 164 min read
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