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Juliet and special guest horror author Nat Silveira talk about what makes horror as a genre work in speculative fiction and Shadowmoor as a setting, then design two different Shadowmoor-themed body-horror cards!
You can check out Nat’s new book The Chrysalis Body at https://books2read.com/thechrysalisbody or https://lost-signals.itch.io/the-chrysalis-body
Topics and Tidbits
- The Chrysalis Body
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Aleph, the Zahir, the Book of Sand, by Jorge Luis Borges
- Just King Things on the RangedTouch network
- Low on Evil Humans, Big on Evil Faeries
- Duskmourn, or: When an Infinite Mansion Isn’t Gothic
- Alien (1979) and the renaissance of speculative body horror
- Horror (and body horror) as means for engaging with real-fears
- The fear of body’s frailty
- “Melting is such a classic body horror”
- “the Dolorem of the Ipsum if you will”
- The Glass Delusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_delusion)
- The constructs of second-body (Cars, apartments, a desk at work)
- Stationary plant jump-scares
- In some ways, can we help the things that make us scared?
- the “!” sound effect
- Welcome to Night Vale Episode 22 – The Whispering Forest
- What makes a man a Scarecrow?
- Straw Soldiers from Portal 3 Kingdoms means Straw cards are blue
- The head and legs of a horse
- The blood and bones of the horse
- Spitemare, the original Boros Reckoner
New Cards from the episode
