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Kristopher Triana's avatar

Well said. Thanks for the shoutout too!

Lucas Mangum's avatar

Anytime! Thanks for reading.

Lucas Mangum's avatar

Thanks, Jackie. :)

Maribel's avatar

Hi, Lucas! 🤗 Would you this post to be in the running to featured in the weekly digest of the Macabre Monday newsletter?? No pressure, of course!

Lucas Mangum's avatar

I would love that! Thank you so much. :)

Maribel's avatar

Excellent!! 🥳 Might I recommend, if I may be so bold, that if you write something as cool as this post on Mondays, consider tagging myself or any of the other members of the Macabre Monday Team! 🤓💀

Lucas Mangum's avatar

Absolutely. Thank you!

David Perlmutter's avatar

"Juvenile" should not be used as a way of dismissing popular culture because of who its intended audience is. It does the people who create it and their motivations a grave disservice.

It's better to say that it's badly written than that it is for kids and therefore badly written.

Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Loving this. I love the “entertaining” as well as the kings and barkers, the brites, and most recently bizarro and comedy horror. Jason pargin! Reading his new one right now, and loving it. John dies at the end! I don’t always want extreme or serious, or cliche haunted houses. Make me laugh at the horror story and it’s entertaining as hell. These are often “palette cleansers” between more extreme stories.

Lucas Mangum's avatar

Absolutely! Bizarro is great.

Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Bizarro almost ruined me, I never looked back after I discovered that genre. Life is now complete❤️📖

Lucas Mangum's avatar

I could totally see that. Carlton Mellick III's bibliography is staggering in its consistency and its ability to bring so much whacked-out joy.

Erica Phillips Graves 🔮's avatar

Yes-the perfect word! Joy. The first one I ever read was the ultra-filthy “the apocalypse and satan’s glory hole”. Fantastic. Chaotic. Wrong in every way. Waaay too many curse worse. It is glorious.