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Since I started reading DOT, I've devoured all things true weird - from The Mothman Prophecies to The Last Podcast on the Left, I've enjoyed (and been spooked by) every second of it, I cannot wait to see where the next DOT-adjacent project leads me! Thank you, JT4, for sending me on this strange and fascinating journey!
Funnily enough, my reading often aligns with what I read about in these newsletters - just as you said you had been reading lots of serial killer / true crime material, I had been too. Recently I watched 'My Friend Dahmer' and am making my way through TLP's 'Hard Hitters' series... which brings me to a question, to anyone reading this(!)...
Whenever I research true crime and serial killers especially, I cannot help but think that I am feeding into the media's and society's hyper-fixation on the terrible acts of terrible people - of course, there is a creative and scientific intrigue to psychopaths and the like, but I cannot help but feel that learning about them feeds into the very thing these evil people wanted - attention! Further, does it not encourage copycats and pretenders if we grant such people a kind of 'celebrity' status?
Of course, I do not think true crime/weird aficionados like me are in any way 'in the wrong' and I'm not at all trying to get on a high horse, but I wonder how others in a similar position navigate this moral quandry??? How do we research and read about the darker side of humanity without sensationalising and (dare I say) glorifying it??
Thanks for another great news letter, James, and hope everyone is having a wonderful week! xx
There is a podcast called Death By Monsters, it is about monsters, mysteries and the unknown. They did a special episode on Santa called Mushroom Santa. I can't remember if they tackled the beginning of him in stores though. They did a look at several versions and histories. They also have an episode about the subjects of The Blue Book
Decided to go with Slaughterverse huh? It sounds more gruesome than it is - but the name just works. (PS - I did not buy SiKtC when it launched because I didn't think my life would benefit from having exploitative books about children being murdered - whoops. I fucked that up. I now buy it as it's clearer what the book is about).
Since I started reading DOT, I've devoured all things true weird - from The Mothman Prophecies to The Last Podcast on the Left, I've enjoyed (and been spooked by) every second of it, I cannot wait to see where the next DOT-adjacent project leads me! Thank you, JT4, for sending me on this strange and fascinating journey!
Funnily enough, my reading often aligns with what I read about in these newsletters - just as you said you had been reading lots of serial killer / true crime material, I had been too. Recently I watched 'My Friend Dahmer' and am making my way through TLP's 'Hard Hitters' series... which brings me to a question, to anyone reading this(!)...
Whenever I research true crime and serial killers especially, I cannot help but think that I am feeding into the media's and society's hyper-fixation on the terrible acts of terrible people - of course, there is a creative and scientific intrigue to psychopaths and the like, but I cannot help but feel that learning about them feeds into the very thing these evil people wanted - attention! Further, does it not encourage copycats and pretenders if we grant such people a kind of 'celebrity' status?
Of course, I do not think true crime/weird aficionados like me are in any way 'in the wrong' and I'm not at all trying to get on a high horse, but I wonder how others in a similar position navigate this moral quandry??? How do we research and read about the darker side of humanity without sensationalising and (dare I say) glorifying it??
Thanks for another great news letter, James, and hope everyone is having a wonderful week! xx
My head is swimming from all the little “hints” you dropped in this post about what’s brewing for the future. Very excited!
On the correct thread now.
There is a podcast called Death By Monsters, it is about monsters, mysteries and the unknown. They did a special episode on Santa called Mushroom Santa. I can't remember if they tackled the beginning of him in stores though. They did a look at several versions and histories. They also have an episode about the subjects of The Blue Book
Decided to go with Slaughterverse huh? It sounds more gruesome than it is - but the name just works. (PS - I did not buy SiKtC when it launched because I didn't think my life would benefit from having exploitative books about children being murdered - whoops. I fucked that up. I now buy it as it's clearer what the book is about).