Cool Weather Comfort Foods that Won’t Make You Fat

A Blogtoberfest Guest Post by Kaitlyn Pierce, founder of Willow House magazine Fall is a time for sweaters, fires, and packing on the pounds while staying curled up on the couch to indulge in some binge eating and Downton Abby marathons on Netflix. Being pregnant with my second child has made it even more enticing … Continue reading Cool Weather Comfort Foods that Won’t Make You Fat

Freaky Franchise: V/H/S

Nothing says 'Found Footage has arrived' more than think pieces on the subject, rife with academic genre-speak. Consider this lofty description from Wikipedia: "The film is presented as an anthology of short horror films, built into a frame narrative which acts as its own short horror film. Each short film is linked together with the … Continue reading Freaky Franchise: V/H/S

Blogtoberfest Movie Review: Would You Rather

Available on Netflix streaming    A dinner party that starts with cocktails and devolves into tableside drownings by barrel. That's the gist of Would You Rather, a horror-thriller starring Brittany Snow and featuring a hodge podge of actors who seem like they'd be fun at an actual dinner party: John Heard, Sasha Grey, Oscar-nominated June … Continue reading Blogtoberfest Movie Review: Would You Rather

Poem.

Demons and ghosts and soulless specters glowing eyes, or the great unknown they lurk and frighten, maim or pilfer, sweeping through cold spots or rivers of blood. Victims fall, for two hours or less, inside the cracks of dark twisted plots. They get in their scrapes for failure to look; leaping past doorjambs with nary … Continue reading Poem.

The 2015 Weird Food Round-up: Two Savories, Two Sweets

I never know where my annual 'October food' posts are going to take me. Sometimes, I find a lot of spooky party platters. Other times, it's a trendy ingredient or a bizarre new dish from a restaurant... this year, I found myself gravitating toward some particularly good entrants into the Weird Food Race in the … Continue reading The 2015 Weird Food Round-up: Two Savories, Two Sweets