You are going to die. No, it’s not a threat, just a friendly reminder about your own mortality which horror all too cheerfully helps you cope with on a regular basis. What separates us in many ways from other animals is the realization of our own mortality and the ability to make decisions based upon that knowledge. In horror, we tend to focus a bit much on the fantastic without stopping for a moment to think of the mundane. Horror in itself as a genre and cultural tradition

A month or so ago we did a write up on Video Palace, the first podcast from online streaming service Shudder written by Ben Rock and Bob DeRosa of 20 Seconds to Live. It was a fun, entertaining listen that met at the intersections of old school radio drama and found footage horror film and was genuinely refreshing. I came into the whole podcasting thing late in life and it's only been in the last year or so that I've started to really listen to and enjoy podcasts. There is li