FogCon 2020

My first "con" ever was FOGCON 2020, and I did two things: 1) moderated the best panel ever... Shades of Fear: Color in Horror and 2) read an excerpt from my WIP The Body a Book of Conjuring.

(Via Twitter before it died, at least for me....)

Best spent Saturday in a long time…moderating Shades of Fear: Color in Horror with

@tomesandcoffee; @UnrealCitoyenne& @ls_johnson at FOGCON 2020!!

The topic description: Horror is often thought of as the genre of darkness, but it also needs bright colors to tell its stories: the stark red of blood and demons; the eerie blues of frigid snowscapes and dangerous oceans; the faint glowing green of unearthly monsters.

Here were some of the questions we explored:

How do horror movies, videogames, and other visual arts use color to telegraph moods, themes, and sensations?

Conversely, why have shadow and darkness been such important thematic and visual hallmarks of horror literature and film?

How did the shift from black and white to color filmmaking change horror movies?

What book jacket colors and illustrations does horror fiction tend to feature, and why?

How does race and racism inflect horror’s conceptions of color?

What would you like to see MORE OF in the use of color in horror?

I was feeling the momentum, and finding my people. And now there's the pandemic and everything is different, and I'm wondering if I'll ever get back there again....