This October has a Friday the 13th, on which Horror Makes Us Happy will be releasing an interview with their 17th Horror Writers Association guest, HWA Secretary and author Becky Spratford.
Cohosts Chris and Steve will also be participating in Becky’s 31 Days of Horror, hosted on Becky’s blog RAForAll: Horror. Past HWA notable guests have included Josh Malerman, Hailey Piper, Paula D Ashe, Tim Waggoner, and Lisa Morton.
Their next interview, with Chris Sarandon will be released on October 27th. He should need no introduction to anyone who’s been paying attention to horror any time over the last 45 years, but for the record Mr. Sarandon has had roles in Fright Night, Child's Play, The Resurrected, and he voiced Jack Skellington in A Nightmare Before Christmas. You might have also seen him in this little movie called The Princess Bride.
The meat of each interview covers their guest’s exposure to horror media, from childhood through adulthood, with an emphasis on digging up the deeper psychological reasons that guest, as an individual, loves horror. Cohosts Steve Becker and Chris Whitman hope that after interviewing enough horror fans some interesting trends will arise, ones that could be handed back to mainstream academia. As they say in their excerpts on their Youtube channel, "There are good reasons for enjoying horror, but what are those reasons? The real reasons? Not the ones horror fans learn to make people leave them alone."
About Horror Makes Us Happy: The hosts of the Horror Makes Us Happy podcast are Steve Becker and Chris Whitman. Steve wrote A Guide to the Recovery Toolbox after ten years in recovery (now twenty), and Chris is the author and artist behind the horror webcomic PIECES. You can find out more about Steve, Chris, and their projects at https://HorrorMakesUsHappy.com
Their next interview, with Chris Sarandon will be released on October 27th. He should need no introduction to anyone who’s been paying attention to horror any time over the last 45 years, but for the record Mr. Sarandon has had roles in Fright Night, Child's Play, The Resurrected, and he voiced Jack Skellington in A Nightmare Before Christmas. You might have also seen him in this little movie called The Princess Bride.
The meat of each interview covers their guest’s exposure to horror media, from childhood through adulthood, with an emphasis on digging up the deeper psychological reasons that guest, as an individual, loves horror. Cohosts Steve Becker and Chris Whitman hope that after interviewing enough horror fans some interesting trends will arise, ones that could be handed back to mainstream academia. As they say in their excerpts on their Youtube channel, "There are good reasons for enjoying horror, but what are those reasons? The real reasons? Not the ones horror fans learn to make people leave them alone."
About Horror Makes Us Happy: The hosts of the Horror Makes Us Happy podcast are Steve Becker and Chris Whitman. Steve wrote A Guide to the Recovery Toolbox after ten years in recovery (now twenty), and Chris is the author and artist behind the horror webcomic PIECES. You can find out more about Steve, Chris, and their projects at https://HorrorMakesUsHappy.com
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