Get ready for a screaming good time… the terrifying fun of SLAY—our scary short film fest made by horror lovers like YOU—is showing LIVE AND IN-PERSON THIS WEEKEND October 29 & 30, and is also streaming online Oct 29-31! Earlier this year, we asked filmmakers to send in their homemade short horror films (eight minutes […]
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Mercury Tales of Horror: Chitter, Chatter… What’s the Matter?
Jess Garten [Happy pre-Halloween! All week long the Mercury will be publishing classic tales of local Halloween horror from our archives, as well as brand spankin’ new (and creeeeepy) pieces… this one is from our 2017 special feature “The Tell-Tale Tooth: True Tales of Dental Horror.”—eds] My family had a thing about discarded body parts. […]
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Which Mall Is More Haunted: Mall 205 or Lloyd Center?
Campy Draper [Happy pre-Halloween! All week long the Mercury will be publishing classic tales of local Halloween horror from our archives, as well as brand spankin’ new (and creeeepy) pieces… such as this one!—eds] Looking down on the empty ice rink, an irrational fear grips me. Tears I can’t explain run down my cheeks. Below, […]
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Manson on the Brain? It Might Be Time to Revisit You Must Remember This
Portrait of a “mass murdering dog,” not long before he would serve nine life sentences and be denied parole 12 times. Charles Manson is dead, and as a wise person once said about some other repugnant figure, it’s a pity there’s no hell for him to burn in. After nearly 50 years as Western culture’s […]
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House Democrats Start Impeachment Process. They Should Stop.
Is impeaching the President already really such a good idea?
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Alex Jones Comes to Seattle, Rants on Street Corner, Gets Doused with Coffee by “Vicious Leftists”
Editor’s note: This story is from our sister paper the Stranger in Seattle. Alex, hello, welcome to Seattle. infowars Attention-thirsty conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is in Seattle for some reason*. For the second day in a row, he has been standing on street corners downtown ranting about the global elite’s effort to crash the economy, […]
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Awakening Portland’s Ghosts on the Lone Fir Cemetery’s Tour of Untimely Departures
THE TOUR OF UNTIMELY DEPARTURES MTV Crypts. Courtesy of Portland Metro Without context, Saturday evening’s festivities outside of the Lone Fir Cemetery probably looked like some kind of morbid carnival—a churro cart stood by the graveyard’s entrance as costumed volunteers offered candy to hundreds of visitors of all ages. Lone Fir is open to the […]
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Millennial Tales of Terror: Make Room for Daddy
Kenneth Huey Oh, I don’t drink coffee,” she said as we sat down at a coffee shop, “but you suggested this place, so I said yes.” Had the worst date of my life been a horror movie, this is where the ominous music would have started, thrumming over a shot that lingers just a second […]
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Millennial Tales of Terror: Smooth Exorcist
Kenneth Huey For a while, I lived in a Detroit mansion. It had three stories, two wings, 10 bedrooms, and a ceiling that was falling in. The mansion was rife with haunts. One guest saw a woman in white running down a hall (from the corner of her eye). Windows opened mysteriously. Weather got in. […]
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“David S. Pumpkins Makes Every Horror Movie Even More Terrifying” 🎃
DAVID🎃S🎃PUMPKINS🎃MAKES🎃EVERY🎃HORROR🎃MOVIE🎃EVEN🎃MORE🎃TERRIFYING🎃 pic.twitter.com/cDO7gWMua9— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 28, 2016
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Is There Anything Trump Can Say that Will Stop His Supporters From Voting For Him? Umm… NO.
We don’t run into many admitted Trump supporters here in the PNW, so it’s kind of hard to imagine why they would still support their candidate even after admitting to sexual assault in that now-famous Access Hollywood video. That’s why The Daily Show sent correspondent Jordan Klepper to a Trump rally to ask his supporters […]
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Alleged Scary Clown Chases School Kids in Dallas, Oregon
“Why on earth would you be afraid of me?” iStock/Lisa F. Young This just in from the Dallas Oregon Police Department (Dallas is in Polk County, west of Salem): Let’s break this post down, shall we? 1) Lt. Mott calls clowning “a segment of society’s attempt at entertaining themselves.” This sounds sarcastic. Clowning is a […]