Dillon Picks October 2024
My monthly meandering through the minutiae of Medium
Lots of people write about horror in October because it is “on trend” (if you’ll forgive my use of an obscenity). I confess I find this rather irksome. It’s a bit like “Sunday Christians”. Christianity is for every day of the week, not just Sunday, and the horror genre is not just for October, but all year round. That is the way of the Dillon Empire. You either like horror or you don’t (in which case, fair enough). If you only like horror in October (or pretend to, because it is “on trend”), you are “lukewarm”. Like the Laodicean Church in the Book of Revelation, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.
Whilst I consider whether such a comparison is blasphemous (in my experience, God has a pretty good sense of humour, so I’m guessing not), I raise this subject purely because this month’s Dillon Picks will (almost) entirely ignore Halloween, just to prove the point. Yes, some of you are enjoying your scary films and scary books this month like any other. Fortress Dillon sees you and does not judge you. But on this occasion, the articles chosen for preservation in the sacred vaults of Dillon Picks are mostly about other subjects.
For those unfamiliar with Dillon Picks, and with my rather insufferable demeanour in these forums, I daresay by now you have gathered…