Terror Tourist: Pied-à-Terror
There is no more important location in horror fiction than the house. The geometry of surfaces that creates an inside where only outside once was, subject to...
The Terror Tourist: Undead Mockingbird
“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” we’re told by Atticus Finch, in the novel title-dropped in that line. Now, think back to your 8th grade self and try to...
The Terror Tourist: End Quote
Note: I failed to send this newsletter when it was ready a month ago, so you’ll have two segments in your inbox, End Quote and Undead Mockingbird. Consider...
The Terror Tourist: Here Be Dragons
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licóurOf which vertú engendred is the...
The Terror Tourist: Terrible Lizards
Tourists, our journey today takes us to a place but also to a time — approximately 66 million years ago. We’re headed to a day, actually — the most...
The Terror Tourist: Land of Fire and Ice
Greetings travelers! I hope you are prepared for an adventure — properly dressed in layers, extremities covered, feet shod in crampons — because we are going...
The Terror Tourist: Doom Shanty
Welcome back to The Terror Tourist. This week our journey leads straight under the waves. We don’t have a map since only about 25% of the sea floor has been...
Gravid with Decay is now The Terror Tourist
Hello friends! It’s been a while since the last issue (and apologies for that!) but, fear not — actually fear quite a lot if you please — I have not been...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #8
Gravid With Decay: Issue #8 This is Gravid With Decay, a short newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. Halloween is over, friends, and while you...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #7
This is Gravid With Decay, a short newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. The Blair Hitch Project, a screenplay I’m about to write Vacations,...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #6 (Holiday Frights)
This is Gravid With Decay, a short newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. My neighborhood theater, The Esquire, setting the right tone for the...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #5
This is Gravid With Decay, a short newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. A happy spooky season to you all! I enjoy horror all year round, but...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #4
This is Gravid With Decay, a short newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. ———— Greetings, programs! Some reviews and recommendations for you...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #3
This is Gravid With Decay, a short biweekly-ish monthly newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. ———— Bit of a longer gap than intended since the...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #2 - Seasonal Horror
Gravid With Decay: Issue #2 Welcome to Gravid With Decay, a short biweekly-ish newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. ———— Happy holidays, dear...
Gravid With Decay: Issue #1
Welcome to Gravid With Decay, a short, occasional newsletter by John Tolva about all things horror. ———— When I was a tyke my family would vacation in a tiny...