protean depravity

  When I was in high school I had a literature teacher who, whenever she did not feel like teaching, came into class pushing a squeaky video cart which makes every young student's heart beat faster with the prospect of watching movies instead of studying. One of those movies, I remember clearly, was Anna Karenina from 1997, the one with Sophie Marceau as Anna. During my lifetime I have watched this screen adaptation three times in total and read the book twice, and although it is one of the most boring books imaginable I remember it fondly. Imagine how bored I must have been in regular class that watching this rather tedious movie was one of the highlights of my school life. Fast forward a few years later at university, I sit in my Introduction to Linguistics course and the professor mentioning that the Czech word “robota” and the German word “Arbeiter” (worker) are etymologically related, opens the doors of a whole new realization to me.

Pretty much everybody's reaction to the title of this anthology is probably something like “Wtf is pizza horror?” Having now finished this bizarre 28 story collection, I still can't answer that question, but I'm 28 stories closer to maybe understanding the concept.

Grayson Hale is the main actor of a murder case that shook Scotland in 2017; the 25 year old American student at the University of Edinburgh confessed to have killed Liam Stewart, one of his classmates, but refused any gullibility as he claimed the Devil, disguised as the man Donald Blackburn, or DB, made him do it. He also refused to plead not guilty due to insanity, because he does not accept he has a mental problem and his story is what it is.