Horror

Six Things That Scared Me When I Was A Child

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Must be the season of the witch

It’s fun to think about the things that scared us when we were little. Everyone does it!

I used to spend a lot of time on Kindertrauma (“Your happy childhood ends here!”), where people shared the things that kept them awake at night, way back when.

The good thing about the Kindertrauma community was the honesty. You could tell that people were sharing things that actually unnerved them when they were young. They weren’t trying to be cute, or clever, or ironic. So the end result was an archive of truly diabolical… stuff.

I’m taking the same approach here. For instance, I’m not going to suddenly start pretending that I used to have an issue with clowns. Clowns are funny! We used to be good friends with a clown, in fact.

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Gothic Radiohead

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Radiohead play dark music. We’re agreed on that.

But one thing for which I don’t think Radiohead get enough credit is just how sinister their music can be.

In the best way possible, their music can be thrillingly creepy, fabulously unnerving, and chillingly atmospheric like a midnight tour of a haunted waxwork museum with Peter Cushing as your guide.

But Peter Cushing died 27 years ago!!!

So this is my tribute to Gothic Radiohead. Let’s not waste any time in discussing just what I mean by “gothic”. But in terms of sound, feel, or subject matter, these are the Radiohead songs that wouldn’t sound out of place on your Halloween playlist alongside The Cramps, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, and the others.

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