What is horror when you’re young? Werewolves and ghosts? Or is it more complicated than that? Maybe it’s more a fear of the unknown. The new and the strange. When you don’t know anything about the world, an open door or sudden shadow can be as frightening as any vampire. In this episode, we explore how we found our way into horror and it how it shaped (or deformed!) us into the obsessive fans we are today.

There are films many of us saw as kids that scared us, which we consider beloved classics, like Alien and The Thing. But there are certain films that left a mark on us when we were little, even if just one scene we still see in our heads today. That's what this episode is about.

VIOLET: Invasion of the Saucer Men (1967), Salem's Lot (1979), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Legend of Hell House (1973).

RICHARD: Tarantula (1955), The Horror of Dracula (1958), The Haunting (1963), Night of the Living Dead (1968).

Video version of this episode is on our Raised By Horror YouTube channel. On this episiode we have guest showrunner Scotland Symons.

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” He’s been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards. Kadrey has also written for comics, film, and video games.

Violet Blue is a six-time award-winning author and journalist, having bylined for CBS News, CNN, Engadget, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, and more. Her books have sold over 2.2 million copies and translated into five languages.

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