The Fears We Never Outgrow
Lately I feel it’s Halloween for real. When John Manning gave us his idea for an anthology of scary stuff, we told him, “Go right ahead.” What resulted was one of the most macabre collections of scary stories imaginable. The secret sauce was getting our writers to ask what scares us down deep. I especially miss what might have come about in a second volume because this one scratched the surface of our child-like fears. John, Janet and Nancy are gone now but if we want to reconnect here are the perfect loose threads to pull. Can’t help but think they’re waiting somewhere for us to yank them.
The Beginning of Hell’s Rebellion
In many ways Monsters foreshadowed the end of the HiH run. Having lived with Satan as the authoritarian ruler for so long, we began to feel where the controls on his power lay. Walsingham, the spy-chief had created a network of discontents ready to risk another trip to the Undertaker if it promised a chance to topple the prince of lies. Truth, even in Hell, would have its day. Our HiH writers piled on with Monsters indeed.