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You know, sometimes people say to me, “Why do you choose to write that creepy stuff?” And I usually say, “What makes you think I have a choice?”

I’m not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

I’ve argued before that the film series had a tendency to portray Bond’s bad guys as little more than spoilt children with expensive toys, allowing Bond to show up and smack them back into line. I suspect that this shift of emphasis from the books allowed Bond to play up what Julius No referred to as “the habits of empire”, affording the British secret agent the illusion of importance. Representing one of the world’s oldest imperial powers, the film series presented Bond as a man to effectively sort out all these young upstarts getting ideas in the wake of the Second World War.

If you want to write a creepy article, think of what scares you. The site has its roots in Internet horror, and we try to keep with that tradition. The stranger the fear the better; a lot of the common terrors and phobias have been covered, and we love creativity.

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