Welcome to this bonus episode of Once Upon a Crime. It's Halloween and I wanted to give you a little treat,

an extra story as we mark the holiday.

Halloween calls to mind spooks, haunts,

and things that go bump in the night.

In this story, horror comes to a family in the middle of the night,

but unlike ghostly tales, this was all too real

and was the last thing they'd ever expected as they invited the monster into their home.

This is the story of when horror came to town, the Farm and nostalgia, and transport us

emotionally to another place and time.

Because music does have such a power to affect moods, it has been feared by parents of every generation.

Some believed that rock music would warp their children's minds.

Rap lyrics were said to inspire teens to violence, and grunge and punk rock tunes would turn young people into bums and druggies.

Heck, even Elvis's music and hip-girating stage shows were believed to be morally corrupting

America's youth in the 1950s. But we've come a long way since then and music has

evolved to include genres and sub-genres that would have made

those 1950s parents hair stand on end. Rock, rap, and metal music have spun into

even more niche genres including acid rock, gangster rap, death metal,

Gothic metal, and black metal. No themes, topics, language, or subjects seem off-limits in music today, although some might say

that specific genres of musical expression go too far sometimes.

Horror Core is one such genre. It is a sub-genre of rap or hip-hop music

that focuses its themes on gore and horror imagery. Graphic violence is the point

of these songs. The darker and more gruesome the better. According to its Wikipedia page,

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