Tab
Tab is a pop culture junkie, film nerd, and true crime fanatic. She works in IT and can usually be found watching movies, cross-stitching, or sometimes both! She is married and has four adorable cats – Darby, Zed, Hecate, and Khoshekh.
She is secretly three bats in a trenchcoat.
Genre Favorites and Horror Origins
Books
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series compiled by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell
Edgar Allan Poe
Edward Gorey, especially The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Goosebumps series and Fear Street series by R.L. Stine
All the Stephen King and true crime books my mom recounted to me, especially It and The Stranger Beside Me and Small Sacrifices, both by Ann Rule
Fangoria
Television
“The Twilight Zone” (1959-1964)
Reboots (1985-1989 and 2002-2003)
“Tales From the Darkside” (1983-1988)
“Unsolved Mysteries” (1987-2010)
“Are You Afraid of the Dark” (1990-2000)
“Tales From the Cryptkeeper” (1993-1999) – cartoon version of “Tales From the Crypt”
“The Outer Limits” (1995-2002)
Watched the original (1963-1965) as an adult
“Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction” (1997-2002)
“Night Visions” (2001)
movies
The Thing (1982)
All Hitchcock movies, but especially Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), and Vertigo (1958)
Universal Monster movies, especially Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Lady in White (1988)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Copycat (1995)
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Tab and her mom, Toni, talk about the true crime cases that fascinate them most.
