Welcome to office hours on the Fangoria Podcast Network.

My name is Dr. Rebecca McKendry, and this is a bonus episode for my podcast Nightmare

University.

On these bonus episodes, I'll be exploring behind-the-scenes tales and genre-fueled adventures from my many years at Fangoria as the director of marketing.

Before we get into the episode, though, let's have a word from our sponsors.

Tonight's episode is brought to you by Fangoria Magazine.

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Each issue includes set visits, deep dives, new discoveries, and minimal ads, all printed on collectible

grade paper stock that reimagines the classic magazine for a 2019 audience. You'll see familiar

names like Mike Gingold, Tony Timpone, and more. You'll see bylines that will make you scream

with delight, like Barbara Crampton and S. Craig Zaller. And the best part,

it's print only. Subscribe now at Fangoria.com. During my time at Fangoria, I saw the rise of online horror journalism.

And for a long time, Fangoria experimented with how to set ourselves apart in the endlessly

competitive space of online horror journalism.

The shift for news within this space was dramatic, and quickly, horror and geek websites

were continuously clamoring to post

not only up-to-the-minute news updates, but also looking for ways to constantly set themselves

apart from the rest of the sites. And for a short stretch, Fangoria experimented with covering music,

and seeing similar fan bases between horror and music, we targeted the heavy metal landscape.

And this thrilled me to no end, as I'd always been a huge heavy metal fan.

So this was just like worlds colliding for me.

And though I disagreed with a lot of kind of our trials that we did with the website

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