Just in time for Halloween, Lore brings together three of life’s greatest pleasures: podcasts, horror anthologies, and debates about when adaptations are justified.
The Amazon Original Series Lore, based off the wildly popular horror podcast of the same name, hit Prime Video this month on Friday the 13th (because of course it did).
Launched in March of 2015, as a podcast Lore dabbles in what goes bump in the night—more specifically, the cultural origins, eyewitness accounts, and psycho-social implications of that bump. That Lore is concerned with poking at the bloated corpse of real-life horror stories is what gives it its edge—whether or not said horror actually exists, the truth tends to outdo the fiction in the scare department. Every episode, the dulcet tones of Aaron Mahnke shepherd listeners through ghoulish and often tender accounts of everything from the Dyatlov Pass incident, Windigos, and Krampus, to more unnervingly human monsters like H.H. Holmes.
While the…
