Dead Air, Nicholas Kaufman's new horror column

The Internet Review of Science Fiction has a new issue out
http://www.irosf.com/
with a new horror column titled "Dead Air" written by Nicholas Kaufman
The inaugural edition is titled
"At the Mountains of Misperception: Horror as a genre and an emotional state—and why it's worth taking seriously"
http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10594

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If "Dead Air" is a continuation of my previous column, which was geared toward a crowd already interested in and knowledgeable about the horror genre, then
this new incarnation also serves another purpose: to introduce it to some of you who may not know much about it. I can hardly blame anyone for being unsure
what horror is or wondering why anyone would be interested in it. After all, a decades-long avalanche of crappy movies and unreadable novels has buried
it beneath the aforementioned mountain of misperceptions.

With "Dead Air," I hope to rectify that situation and show you that horror can be more than the misogynistic slashers or lovingly described gore scenes
that so many immediately identify with the genre. Much, much more.
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Unscheduled bleeding from the eyes

I hate that.

Some people aspire to gothness, others have gothness thrust upon them.

I wouldn't be so freaked except that every medical person who says she will call me back has disappeared into a dark void, never to be heard of again, and it's been an hour. alexx_kay is coming home from work and we'll probably be taking the trek to Burlington, because local E/Rs tend to be kind of clueless when it comes to specialized eye emergencies.

Sigh.

Don't panic--it's not the bad sort of bleeding

That's basically what my surgeon had to say, and she would not have been there by the time I made the two-hour trip anyway, so I'm much calmer now. I still wish it hadn't taken me three calls to her service and an hour and a half to get that opinion, though.

Certain sick individuals who shall remain nameless feel I should have waited on the bleeding from the eyes thing until Halloween proper, but you know I get so impatient...