The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association

Tom Monteleone has been writing The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association column for years and they’ve always been entertaining, intelligent, and informative. If you’ve missed them, it’s a real shame. But you have a chance to catch his most recent. It’s available for free on the Cemetery Dance website. He takes a look at what most horror writers ponder at one time or another in their careers … why do we like this horror stuff?

Here’s a brief look: “When written well, horror and suspense literature evokes an emotional response from its readers. This can range from a mild sensation of unease and then across the spectrum to abject repulsion. We’re talking simple scared-of-the-dark and funny-noises-at-night all the way through bugfuck fear to mind-numbing nihilist rejection. We’re talking about a literature which has the ability to involve us on a visceral, as well as psychological level. We’re talking about a literature that possesses and innate power to hammer out a flamenco dance on our imaginations and fire up a blowtorch under our phobias.”

You can read the column in full here: Mothers and Fathers Italian Association

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