Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

CAMP is the kind of horror movie that looks soft until you realize it has teeth. I went in expecting some flavor of summer camp slasher, the genre where teenagers get picked off between canoe trips. That is not this. Avalon Fast has made something stranger and a lot more wounded, a film about a girl who is desperate to be forgiven and finds a circle of people willing to forgive her, no questions asked, no conditions attached. The catch is in the woods. There is always a catch in the woods. I watched it three times before talking to…

College is a huge investment on many levels, and it’s understandable that parents and students would approach college orientation programs this summer with mixed feelings and trepidation. There’s the excitement for sure, but there’s also the fear and worry. Did my student choose the right college? Will they adjust and make friends easily? What do they really need to be successful? How can I balance being supportive and also letting go? As a college professor for over 30 years and the author of a new college guide, The Complete U: Over 100 Lessons for Success in and out of the…

After cackling on the big screen, delivering just desserts on his own TV series, and bringing his unique brand of morbid humor to blood-splattered comic book pages, The Creep is coming to undead life like never before in the short story collection Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror! Edited by James Aquilone and featuring a talented roster of writers, killer cover art by Russ Braun, and eerie interior art by EV Cantada, Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror is now available from Monstrous Books, and we have an exclusive excerpt from David Avallone’s “The Predator’s Heart” to share with Daily Dead readers! You’ll…

The biggest storyline of the offseason just had another wrinkle thrown its way.The NFL informed former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby on Tuesday that it will not hold a supplement draft this year, instead encouraging him to focus on preparing for possible entry into the league through next year’s NFL Draft.Sorsby, who transferred from Cincinnati to Texas Tech this past offseason, applied for the supplemental draft after a legal battle with the NCAA, which had declared him ineligible for making thousands of bets on sporting events worth at least $90,000 during his college career. Those included at least 40 bets…

Many people who struggle with alcohol do not think of themselves as addicted. They often picture addiction as something that happens to other people, i.e., to those who drink daily, wake up trembling, or have lost jobs or relationships due to drinking. But this all-or-nothing image is misleading. Alcohol-related problems exist on a spectrum, and not experiencing withdrawal does not mean alcohol is not harming you or increasing your risk. A Spectrum, Not a Yes-or-No Condition In the past, drinking problems were viewed in simple either-or terms. You were either a social drinker or an alcoholic. Today, that thinking has…

Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror editors Thomas E. Sniegoski and James Aquilone speak with Wicked Horror about the new short story collection!Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone’s Monstrous has launched Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror, the first-ever short story collection inspired by the acclaimed franchise.The short story collection, officially released on June 23, follows the long Creepshow history that captured the attention of horror fans first with George A. Romero and Stephen King’s 1982 film Creepshow.Later, special effects artist, director, and producer Greg Nicotero (Walking Dead) introduced a new generation of fans to Creepshow with the acclaimed 2018…

We moved to England on January 1, 2016. I had accepted a position at the University of Warwick and was due to start in a few days’ time. I had already built a fairly successful international academic career, but I felt I had reached a plateau and that a radical change was needed to move forward. A professorship at a top university in the United Kingdom seemed the perfect next step. Looking Across the North Sea Earlier that morning, on a beautiful, bright New Year’s Day, my 12-year-old daughter and I had watched crowds of Dutch people in orange woolly…

A24 spent the last decade as the studio horror fans point to when someone insists the genre has nothing left to say. Hereditary, Midsommar, The Witch, Talk to Me, X, Pearl, Men, Saint Maud. That is a murderers’ row of strange, filmmaker-driven nightmares, and it is the reason the little A24 logo at the front of a trailer became its own kind of trust fall. So when the studio shows up holding Google money to go play with AI, the people who built that trust are going to give it a long, narrow look. On June 22, Google DeepMind and…

ADI IGNATIUS: I’m Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: Alison, I feel like the executives I speak with these days are all struggling. They’re struggling with uncertainty. They’re struggling with the new global order. They’re struggling with inflation, with AI. It’s kind of a drag, but today, we’re talking with someone who is markedly more upbeat and who has ideas on how senior leaders can inject a greater sense of play into their work lives. ALISON BEARD: That sounds fun. You know what they say about all work and no play,…

Many people are searching for something that feels increasingly difficult to find: solid ground. This is not because life has suddenly become dangerous every moment of every day, but because uncertainty has become a constant companion. News cycles move rapidly. Technology evolves faster than many can keep up with. Political, social, and economic changes seem to arrive in waves. For many people, it feels as though the ground beneath them is constantly shifting. When this happens, a natural question emerges: Where do we find stability when the world feels unstable? The Myth of Control When uncertainty increases, many people instinctively…