{"id":6070,"date":"2007-06-25T01:46:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T07:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=6070"},"modified":"2007-06-25T01:46:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T07:46:50","slug":"i-sleep-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"I sleep now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy crap this has been a crazy month! First a bunch of stuff<\/a> happened at work, then I got on some planes and flew around the country, then I came back and got in my car and drove all over Northern California, then I moved all of my belongings to a new place, and now I am getting ready for a trip to Japan. All of this has occurred within a 3 week span, and I’m exhausted!<\/p>\n

Not exhausted enough to stop thinking about horror games, however. It seems that the database is in dire need of attention. It is missing a crapload of new games like F.E.A.R. and The Darkness, as well as old standards that really should be added (yeah, yeah, Dino Crisis, I know). It also contains a bunch of games that have been cancelled or otherwise changed since I added them. I hope to revamp the contents of the database again soon to bring it up to date.<\/p>\n

This site has also been the target of a couple of very annoying spam bots. I’ve made it a little more difficult to post on this site: you now need to prove that you are not a robot by entering some text in the post dialog. It’s a simple solution and seems pretty effective.<\/p>\n

So, in leu of any real horror game material at the moment, I’m going to instead recommend to you a few books that I have enjoyed recently. 999<\/a> is one of the best horror short-story collections I have ever read. I particularly liked the Gene Wolfe and Joyce Carol Oats stories, but there are a large number of other gems as well. I am also right in the middle of The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre<\/a>, which has served as a great introduction to this author. I’ve not read Lovecraft much before, and reading his works now is interesting because it is clear that he has had a significant influence on modern American horror. The stories all follow a similar pattern and the mechanics of each tale seem almost cliché, but I think that they feel that way because his works have been copied so much since they were written, not because they were cliché when they were written. Finally, though not strictly a horror film, Paprika<\/a> is the best animated movie I have seen in a very long time. It is sort of an anime version of postmodern Japanese surrealism–think Haruki Murakami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What have you been reading\/playing\/watching?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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