Laissez Les Morts Temps Rouler: Goth Parenting in New Orleans
Maniacal clowns and pale men with eyes in their palms are the worst my son has to fear in life. Or so I wish.
We’ve been in the Guillermo del Toro exhibit for five minutes when I realize it may not be the best place for a two-year-old.
Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
Crimson Peak, Pan’s Labyrinth Hellboy
Lestat
Peeping Tom Audition,
The Hound of the Baskervilles Dracula. Dracula: A Counting Primer
Really, don’t worry—he lives for this stuff.
Your nephew’s never been to our place.
No, you don’t understand. See, I want him to like it, because it’s who his mother and I are and what if he grows up and studies finance? What if we can’t control what he loves—and what he fears?
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
Spongebob Curious George
no.
Adrian Van Young is the author of The Man Who Noticed Everything, a collection of stories, and Shadows in Summerland, a novel. See more at: adrianvanyoung.com.
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