Most horror concepts are metaphorical in some way or have some kind of message, and that's something I genuinely enjoy about the genre. But it really annoys me when basically every other story beat is telling you exactly what that metaphor/message is and…
When I was 16 years old, my beloved college counselor told me that it was a good thing I wanted to be a physicist because I wasn’t much of a writer. We were close—I had her home phone number for
