‘Tis the season to temporarily turn away from the horror show in Washington, D.C. With Halloween just around the corner, we’ve shaken the cobwebs off of a few seasonally appropriate favorites from the Reader archives for your reading pleasure.
Reader social media editor Ryan Smith was spooked by the sights and sounds of southern Illinois’s Shawnee National Forest and the surrounding area during a road trip earlier this year. The piece includes a creepy cabin, a haunted hotel, a dank cave with a murderous history—as well as dying rural towns.“At Mad Mobster’s peculiar crossroads of real and imagined horrors”
Filmmaker and composer John Carpenter made some of the best horror movies of the 70s and 80s (including Halloween and The Thing). In 2012, Miles Raymer explored the growing influence of Carpenter’s synth-centric film scores on a generation of electronic musicians.
